Here are some simple to follow steps toward developing your people skills and enhancing your network:
1. Be nice, and everything else will fall into place.
Our friend and mentor Liz Strauss has a motto for SOBCon, “Be nice.” How hard is that? How many people do it? Being nice creates likability and trust. People do business [...]
April 29 - May 2, 2011 • Chicago, IL
Tag Archive: communication
Connecting with New People
The Building Blocks of Successful Interaction
I just wanted to share this with you:
Charlie Grantham and Jim Ware, writing at The Future of Work, share some thought on the building blocks of interpersonal interaction:
In our experience effective communication is made up of three basic qualities: trust, connectedness; and relatedness.
Trust is the most basic quality.
Trust is an emotional thing. It comes when [...]
The Effect of the Internet as a Watercooler
Bob Krumm wrote this week: The water cooler is spreading a virus
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, two events have leapt into America’s consciousness this week. The first was the Tea Party protests involving hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans in hundreds of cities all around the country.
The second was the sudden and [...]