Christian Communication Training
This is what happens when an accomplished musician and comedic genius is both oddly specific and specifically general. Victor Borge in What a Conductor Does.
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Usually, I can decipher what I thought they might have, maybe, meant to say. And I can usually tell why a miscommunication happened, but… I got nothin’! You?
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Phobias and Communication
I laughed so hard at this one, I couldn’t answer the phone when my dd called! I don’t mean to offend those who have real fears as they have my prayers, but this was just so creatively funny and must have been incredibly difficult to do!
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Leadership is another one of those everyday things that require communication skills. Leadership isn’t just about making speeches, but about gaining acceptance of your ideas.
Leadership is all the buzz right now, but leadership is so much more than power or charisma. Leadership, Godly Leadership, true leadership, is so much more than that!
Leadership requires us to step out of our shyness.
Leadership requires us to speak in a godly way according to the Word.
Leadership requires us to communicate our vision and that we are someone worth following.
Leadership Insights:
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight Eisenhower
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” –John F. Kennedy
“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” –John D. Rockefeller
“Character matters; leadership descends from character.” –Rush Limbaugh
“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.” –Proverbs 11:14
Tips For Leaders:
* Keep a journal of notes on ideas for furture reference
* Get organized by using a planner or Outlook Calendar so you never miss an important meeting/event.
* Prioritize your time
* Be flexible. Things won’t always go your way and sometimes that’s a good thing. Be open to new ideas.
* Remember to thank those who help you. A little thank you goes a long way!
* Keep learning. Continuing education is essential so you can keep up with any changes in your field.
* Keep honing your communication skills.
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Continuing with our Other Than Speech Making Month here at Communication FUNdamentals, I found this every day item that just smacks of communication fun. So I was cooking lunch for my son last week. Since he was sick, I decided to make him some Campbell’s Soup, vegetable soup, VEGETARIAN Vegetable Soup. No…Seriously!
Isn’t that a bit redundant? So what would NONvegetarian vegetable soup look like? Well, my husband informs me that regular vegetable soup would have beef stock. This one has tomato. I still think it sounds rather silly. What do you think?
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February is Other Than Speech Making Month. What on earth is that, right? On February 24th, I’m hosting a panel of guests on the Art of Eloquence Monthly Workshops to share just how far reaching communication skills are. They are so much more than making those speeches we were talking about last month! Communication is something we do every day!
I found this tidbit of research and thought we should start from the beginning…
Recent research shows that babies cry with an accent! According to an article in the newspaper a few months ago, the journal, Current Biology, published a study done by the Max Planck Society in Germany that says virtually that!
Angela Friederici, one of the authors of the study, said they found “clear differences in the tone and pitch of the babies’ cries. The French babies started low and went higher, while the German ones did the opposite.” It seems that there is a correlation between the babies’ cries and how their parents speak. In French, a great many words have the stress at the end, so the intonation rises. German words do mostly the opposite.
Friederici says, “The sense of hearing is the first sensory system that develops, but because the amniotic fluid muffles sounds, what gets through are primarily the melodies and intonation of the respective language.”
It doesn’t say anything about any of the other languages, but I’d be interested to learn more about this study. I’ll post any other findings, should I find them! lol
Friday Funnies is proud to present this week’s communication giggle and spelling mishap. I do wonder if there wasn’t a “splelling” burglar at work here. If there were, I’d have to give him my “congartulations.”
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This week’s Friday Funny is brought to you by the word “monotone” and the number of times I had to record this to get it to sound that way!
This is an audio recording of Mona Tone demonstrating the need for vocal variety in your speech. Take it away Mona!
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This week, I’d like to share two true Facebook stories with you. Each of them illustrates a problem in communication. Facebook is a very large and growing venue that facilitates communication between people all over the world. There are, however, several communication issues that crop up and can make your Facebook experience less desirable. In fact, these are issues that can alienate your Facebook friends.
Since so many people establish relationships through Facebook for both personal and business purposes, I feel these two issues are vital to discuss and understand.
It’s Word Wednesday and this week’s word is “inadvisable.”
One of the latest changes Facebook had made was to create new Facebook groups which allow you to add any or all your friends without their consent. I found this a curious act for a company that works so incredibly hard not to allow people to add to their friends those they are not somehow connected to through mutual friends.
Facebook takes a dim view of requesting friendships with people with whom you do not have a list of mutual friends. In fact, you may have experienced your posting privileges being taken away temporarily for having done so. I’ve been told that Facebook has banned people for abusing this rule.
So why is it that Facebook would encourage members to add their friends to a group without their knowledge or consent? If I request a friendship with Mary and she doesn’t want it, she can simply ignore me. If I add Mary to a group (Pigs Knuckle, Arkansas Association of 5′ Tall Real Estate Investors Who Wear Purple), she’ll get 500 emails a day telling her who just joined along with all the postings from my friends who are wondering why they were added! Until Mary logs onto the group, finds the “Leave the Group” link and it takes effect, her inbox is stuffed!
Thankfully, I have only been added to groups about six times since this has been made “Facebook Legal”, but I wonder how many have lost Facebook friends over this? I know for a fact that folks have “unfriended” people who send out mass Facebook messages to their entire friend’s list. “Tupperware Party at my house on Friday!” People are so upset by spam that there laws to protect people against unwanted emails. In fact, people are so upset by spam that whole Yahoo groups have been destroyed by a few who will not adhere to the no spam rules set by the group. Legitimate businesses adhering to the spam rules have had their ISP blocked because a subscriber simply forgot they had subscribed or didn’t want to go to the trouble of unsubscribing so they simply clicked “Report as Spam.”
Adding 3000 people to an obscure group not only puts someone into a group with whom they may not want to be associated, but it generates a TON of emails! It communicates several other things as well.
1.You overstepped your boundaries
You didn’t think enough about them to even ask if they wanted to be part of this group. You took it upon yourself without even consulting them. I’d be willing to bet that these same people would be upset if they began receiving emails or mail or phone calls from The National Marine Biologists Association because Mildred signed them up without their knowledge or consent.
2. You don’t respect their time
The sheer amount of emails one could potentially receive after being added to a group is staggering! Can you imagine getting 20 phone calls from The Merry Wives of Farnsworth? Gee Willakers! That’s why the Do Not Call List is so popular!
3. You don’t really know them
Sending out a Tupperware Party invitation to 3000 of your closest Facebook Friends is just silly. How many of them actually live in Arkansas? I don’t. Mable doesn’t and I’d be willing to bet at least 2500 of her Facebook friend’s list is too far to attend. How many of Mable’s Facebook friends are Marine Biologists? Even if you view being added as a gift, how many of you recently received a Christmas gift from someone this year that wasn’t anything you’d ever use? If that gift was from someone you thought should know you, you probably didn’t feel like they did.
4. They are only a number to you
One thing I’ve read over and over about marketing, is that you should communicate as if you are speaking directly to that person. Sending out a mass Facebook message doesn’t treat that person as an individual. It doesn’t’ speak directly to them. If it doesn’t apply to them or interest them in the least, they feel like a number. Automatically adding your entire friend’s list to your group communicates that they are only a number, especially if they don’t have any interest in the group topic.
The more serious problem with this new Facebook group feature is that anyone can add you to the group, not just the person who formed the group. Recently someone created a group and added me to it. I left the group. An hour later I was added again. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell this group that I do not want to be a member. There is no feature on Facebook that allows me to choose NOT to be added to a group without my permission.
Adding your Facebook friends to a group is just inadvisable. If you create a group, I’d much rather you send me an email asking me to join. In fact, I might be much more inclined to do so, if asked!
What are your thoughts?
From the guys at What You Ought to Know, comes this fun video on tips for public speaking…
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