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...
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: This week's question comes from a Twitter friend, Greta Perry. If you're on Twitter, follow her! She's insightful! Here was her question: If you wrote your autobiography, what would you call it? JoJo’s Answer: I really had...
The other day, while chatting with someone online, the topic of goal setting came up. She was surprised at how many different events Art of Eloquence held. If you're new to Communication FUNdamentals, you may be wondering: we host a weekly podcast, put out a weekly newsletter, post a daily blog, hold an annual three-day online convention and write a monthly Foot in Mouth Man episode, just to name a few. However, what surprised her most was the fact that I said I never set goals. I've heard so many say that you should set goals and work toward them. I haven't the patience God gave a gnat so I've never been one to set goals. Seems like such a...
"Tis better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" a time to speak and a time to...NOT! Our society values information and we assign value to the person who shares it. In his quest for acceptance and to rise to that level of value, man attempts to share what he knows, even if he isn't sure he knows it. It isn't a crime to be ignorant. All intelligent and knowlegable men are ignorant of SOMETHING. Great is the man who shares his knowledge with others, but far greater still is the man...
Yesterday was one of our most amazing shows on Grace Talk Soup to date! We gave away a TON of great information on How to Get a Job in Today's Tough Market: * How traditional methods of finding a job don't work in today's market * Creative ideas for finding a job today * How to write your resume even if you've been out of work for "motherhood" a long while * How to prepare for the interview Then we gave our own version of an Economic Stimulus Package: The Grace Talk Soup Economic Stimulus Package includes opportunities for job seekers to have their resume's proofread by Carla Ives (AKA Ethel the Editor) for only $10 and JoJo's (AKA Lucy...
