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Top 10 Reasons to Improve Your Communication Skills

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...

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JoJo on Listening

Over the last several years, I have written a great deal on the topic of listening.  Most people know that listening is an important skill but they don't really know why.  Here are a few of the sayings I have used in various articles over the last several years. JoJo on Listening: "1 speaker + 1 Listener = an effective communication equation."  JoJo Tabares "Sometimes the most intelligent thing to say is…nothing." JoJo Tabares "When your audience is no longer listening, it’s always best to stop talking!" JoJo Tabares "You will not persuade another by cutting off his argument. You will only stifle your understanding of how to answer him." -JoJo Tabares I cover this topic in depth in an...

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Fri Funny: Another JoJo Saying...

I have another JoJo-ism for you!  I recently found an article I wrote a while back (10 Quick Rules for Disagreeing in Grace), that I discovered had some of my more inspired sayings.  I'll be sharing more of these on Twitter and Facebook, but here is one that I thought was appropriate for Friday Funnies: "Tis better to agree to disagree and live to discuss another day than to fight for your right to be a pest!" -JoJo Tabares Learning Communication skills can also be fun with Art of Eloquence.com!

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Spirit of Fear

Spirit of Fear By JoJo Tabares "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." -2 Timothy 1:7 KJV Fear in speaking with others is timidity or what we call shyness.  According to Webster's dictionary, shyness means "sensitive and hesitant in dealing with others".  This is not the spirit of power that should be present inside the Christian for we know that with the Lord all things are possible and, if the Lord is for us, who can be against us? Research shows that 87% of what we do all day is communication related.  Maybe that is why the Bible speaks about communication skills hundreds of times.  The...

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