by Robyn McLeod | Mar 12, 2020 | Communication
Today I had a conversation with someone I have not spoken to in over 15 years. She was a friend who became an ex-friend after a perceived slight. I didn’t fully understand what I did so many years ago, but I moved on and gave up trying to make amends. So I was...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Mar 10, 2020 | Communication
“Most communication resembles a Ping-Pong game in which people are merely preparing to slam their next point across; but pausing to understand differing points of view and associated feelings can turn apparent opponents into true members of the same team.” ~Cliff...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Feb 25, 2020 | Communication
“Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” ~Anonymous I was talking to my kid about this earlier this morning during our run. I was acknowledging how I can still get caught fighting against something that’s going on in my life,...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 30, 2020 | Communication
I think it’s something we all have in common. There are simply some conversations we don’t want to or don’t know how to have, and so we either avoid the conversations (or the person/people we should be having the conversations with), plunge into the conversations...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Dec 10, 2019 | Communication
“To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.” ~Edward R. Murrow One of the leadership skills we teach is effective communication, and specifically persuasion and influence. Many clients come to...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Apr 23, 2019 | Communication
“Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.” ~Native American Proverb Have you ever been in the midst of a conversation, and realized you were just waiting for the other person to take a breath so that you could share your next thought, or dispute their last...
