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There is a risk that repeating an association can make it stronger in memory,” says Ullrich K.H. Ecker, another author, in an e-mail. “Saying that ‘it’s incorrect that the flu vaccine has major side effects’ repeats and hence potentially strengthens the link between ‘vaccine’ and ‘side effects’ even though it negates it,” notes Ecker, an assistant professor of psychology at Western Australia. Ecker's research and that of others has demonstrated this fact. Much smarter, he says, is to stick to the alternative, talking about the safety of the vaccine. . .
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You only get one chance to persuade someone to be interested in what you're saying, so first impressions really are everything. Not only should you strive to make a good one, but you need it to be a lasting impression as well. . .
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Praising good performance is easy, but what about those times when someone on your team needs a kick in the rear more than a pat on the back? . . .
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Negotiating is an essential skill. Understand the seven pillars of effective influence. A good portion of being a good negotiator is just being a good person. . .
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When people find out that I write and speak about body language, they immediately get nervous and self-conscious. They react as if I could detect their innermost thoughts with a single glance. Well, I can’t. But that’s only one of the myths people believe about the subject. Here are five others: . . .
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The difficulty and dissatisfaction of using Skype to conduct meetings in an intercultural communication context is not due to the most obvious reasons.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
My intercultural business clients often enlist my aid to help them improve their Skype meetings. They count on me to provide them with a unique perspective on intercultural communication and want to hear my views about why it is so difficult and dissatisfying for them. From my perspective, the difficulty and dissatisfaction of using Skype to conduct meetings in an intercultural context is not due to the most obvious reasons. . .
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Conveying bad news is part of every manager’s job. It comes with the territory. The problem is that many managers are not skilled at doing it. . .
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Marketers already know way to much about us thanks to online tracking, and now they have yet another powerful way to understand consumers. MIT startup Affectiva has created a webcam that codes facial expressions and a sensor that measures changes in body temperature. Both could be a huge way for brands to steamline the market research proces...
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There are no truly difficult people, only those who have unrefined communication skills. Here's how to deal with them when you encounter them. . .
Sarah Hanson's curator insight,
April 12, 2013 5:38 AM
It's important to understand how to communicate with someone who is more hostile than others, I don't think that calling people "difficult" is exactly the right term |
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Just by looking at someone, you experience them. Ever fallen in love at first sight or had a "gut feeling" about someone? You internally resonated with them. Ever seen someone trip and momentarily felt a twinge of pain for them? Observing them activates the "pain matrix" in your brain, research shows. Ever been moved by the sight of a person helping someone? You vicariously experienced it and thereby felt elevation. . .
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When it comes to converting more customers, the “secret” to more sales is as simple as understanding just what your buyer wants (and expects) from your business. We are all different, but in many instances our brains are prone to react in a similar manner. Understanding these subtleties in the human mind can help your business find creative ways to ethically move more buyers towards saying “Yes!” to your products or services. Below are 10 studies that reveal such insights into the minds of your customers. . .
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Communication is paramount to the success of all the work that we do. So it is alarming when research reports that more than 80% of us are miscommunicating on a daily basis, which leads to misunderstandings, frustrations, anger, and despair. . .
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Who is the most important audience? Hint: It's not the people you meet.
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Poorly run meetings are like garbage strewn along the organizational highway. Useful meetings are like the Sumatran Tiger, powerful but nearly extinct. Great organizations have great meetings. . .
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You’re in a meeting, and it’s going well. You can tell because of the positive body language that your colleague has been showing you. And then, something happens – you’re not sure what — and everything changes. , ,
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When it comes to body language, context is king. You can't make sense of someone's nonverbal message unless you understand the circumstances behind it. Context is a complex weave of variables including location, relationships, time of day, and past experience. Depending onthe context, the same nonverbal signals can have totally different meanings. . .
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We had hired a new senior executive. Soon after settling in, he began to share his concerns with me. He was doing so, he assured me, only because he loved working for us, and he was looking out for the well-being of the company. He reported to me, and at first, I appreciated his input. . .
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Can you be a great success in business and be a failure as a communicator? Maybe, but I can't see how. You've got to be able to deliver a message to your customers, prospects, employees, investors and the media in a powerful and persuasive way. And if they don't get it, it's your job to make sure that they do. With that in mind, I've come up with a list of ten ways to be a great communicator. . .
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Negotiation is the key to getting what you want, whether in the boardroom or anywhere else.Luckily there's a science to it, as established by countless psychological studies. . .
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First impressions matter even more than you think. They're the most important part of any job interview. And once they're set, they are very hard to resist. Most advice on the subject is defensive, just telling us how to not offend. How can we strategically make a good impression? . . .
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Designer and speaker Jesse Desjardins shares five presentation lessons from the critically-acclaimed and Golden Globe-winning film, The King’s Speech (starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush)
Jesse’s slideshow shows how in the film King George VI grows from stammering in his first public speech to finding his own voice and becoming a confident speaker. . .