Top 10 Reasons to Improve Your Communication Skills 10.Your Education 9. Your Job 8. Your Relatives 7. Your Business 6. Your Employees 5. Your Witness 4. Your Friends 3. Your Children 2. Your Marriage 1. Your happiness Studies show that effective communicators do better in school, have deeper relationships, longer marriages, are more successful, make more money and are generally happier than their less articulate counterparts. The Lord felt communication skills so important for our lives that He mentions communication skills literally HUNDREDS of times in His Word. "Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." -Colossians 4:6 "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be...
Monday Q of the Wk. Here’s how it works: Each Monday I ask a thought provoking question about life. Pose the same question to your blog readers on your own blog along with your answer to the question. Then come back here and post a comment with a link to your blog post so we can all read everyone’s answers! It’s been a lot of fun getting to know my readers and their readers and so on and so on… This week’s question: What's your communication personality? JoJo’s Answer: I wrote an article several years ago called What's Your Communication Personality? In it I outline nine different types of communicators: Gabby Gloria, Shy Sheila, Bold Betty, Careful Carla, Amiable Annie,...
May Grace Talk Soup Contest: Help us promote this show by posting it to Twitter, Facebook, your blog, newsletter, website, Yahoo group, etc. Then email gts@artofeloquence.com and give us the link or tell us where you posted it and we will enter you in this week’s contest for a chance to win a prize: Say What You Mean Defending the Faith! Just in time for our mini series this month! What's Grace Talk Soup all about? Are you confident that you are being understood when speaking to your child's doctor? Are you sure that they know exactly what you need when you finally get to the right menu option at your mortgage company? Do you know why your small business...
Say What You Mean: Defending the Faith Online Classes are new over at Art of Eloquence University! There are so many questions and misconceptions the world has about the Lord and the Christian faith! We are going through the study one week at a time and then starting over again. This means that you can join the class at any time and take the class over and over as often as you like. "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1Peter 3:15 Are you comfortable with questions like these? If not, you...
Methuselah is on Technological Life Support and it's only a matter of time now. He was fairly old when we adopted him into our family, but these days Methuselah's had some serious electronic health issues. Methuselah’s e-Schizophrenic with Hypertronic Tendencies. To put it in layman’s terms: My computer hamster was overcome by CDrom fumes, fell off his e-Wheel and hit his head on the RAM! Methuselah is what I call my aging computer who is on his last electrode. I'm afraid the Techno Alzheimer's has progressed to the point where he can no longer function in his current capacity. What I mean to say is that I can no longer function in MY capacity! It is with great elation that...
