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How To Be a Better Listener – Part 3

August 8, 2017 By Karen Cortell Reisman Leave a Comment

Our second blog on listening skills shared the four words that will increase your ability to really hear what others are saying. Your third Speak For Yourself® “How To Be a Better Listener” tip requires only three words. Tell me more. You’ve opened your mind to listen nonjudgmentally, and Read more [...]

How To Be a Better Listener – Part Two

August 1, 2017 By Karen Cortell Reisman Leave a Comment

In our first blog on listening skills, Melissa Daimler, head of the Global Learning & Organizational Development team @Twitter, discusses three levels of listening and three listening tips recently reported in Harvard’s Business Review. In just four words, here is your next Speak For Yourself® Read more [...]

Velcro – Velcro – Velcro

July 18, 2017 By Karen Cortell Reisman Leave a Comment

Use more Velcro. NOT to join the two straps on your athletic sandals. Use more Velcro every time you open your mouth. Velcro is defined as a way to attach two thin plastic sheets – one covered with tiny loops and the other with tiny flexible hooks, which adhere when pressed together. For communicating Read more [...]

Three Presentation Myths that Can Hijack your Speeches

June 27, 2017 By Karen Cortell Reisman Leave a Comment

Presentation Myth #1: Extroverts are better speakers. Baloney. Sadly, extroverts are given extra points as being better and more natural leaders, salespeople and speakers. That’s just not true. It’s easier for extroverts to talk! That’s it. What comes out of an extrovert’s mouth is another Read more [...]

How To Be a Better Listener

June 20, 2017 By Karen Cortell Reisman Leave a Comment

It’s ironic that the hardest communication skill has nothing to do with speaking. It has everything to do with listening. If we just shut up long enough we’d really understand what’s going on with our organization/think tank/strategy planning/board meetings. Melissa Daimler, head of the Global Read more [...]