Writings Tagged with ‘Communication’

Short and Sweet … and to the Point

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

 

Are you trying to handle too much information?

Are you trying to handle too much information?

How do we effectively communicate our ideas in today’s world of information overload?

 

Has everyone become stricken by some degree of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)?

 

Or has the barrage of information that originally started sixty-plus years ago with television and commercials—and has now hyper-accelerated to our smart phones and tablet computers via websites, URLs, emails, and webinars—simply worn us all out? And let’s not forget the twenty-four hour news cycles with bloviating pundits yelling over each other in talking points and mindless clichés.

 

Here’s the good news.

 

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Initiate Good Communication

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

 

Gumptionable-100percent-Responsible

Initiating good communication requires being 100% responsible.

 

Once again, gumptionable is a combination of conventional gumption with Gumption, and means being 100% personally responsible for your actions and interactions. Today we’ll examine the 7th of the 7 principles of being gumptionable: Initiate good communication.

 

From the original post on being gumptionable, here is how I described the principle: Initiate good Communication.

 

Communication is the act or process of interchanging thoughts, opinions, or information. To initiate is to begin, set in motion, or originate. To set in motion the exchange of ideas is selfless and generous and potentially productive.

 

Here are seven ideas you can use to initiate good communication at work or in your private life. 

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