by Kare Anderson | Dec 16, 2011 | behavior, Choice, conference, Friendship, Give Back, Likeability
After a priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior one afternoon to ask, “Would you mind if I smoked while praying?” and was, not surprisingly, turned down. Yet how one makes a request has a huge impact on whether it will be granted. For...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 13, 2011 | behavior, Book, Connecting
Simplify. It’s clarifying. Only then can one can focus. Focus on what is really going on. From the inside out What do you feel right now? What most matters to you? What is happening, truly happening with those in the scene you are playing out right now? What best...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 11, 2011 | Miscellaneous
Even when shown circles, triangles and other geometric objects randomly moving about on a screen, we tend to turn them into familiar objects. Then we instinctively attempt to determine what they mean, a study found. Two examples: 1. “When asked what they had been...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 10, 2011 | image, Speaker/Audience, speaking
You’ll feel much better after watching Phil Davison’s emotional appeal for support. To put it dryly his talk amply demonstrates that being genuine and emotionally committed to one’s point of view does not necessarily mean you will connect with your audience.. Also,...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 5, 2011 | Book, Choice, Conflict, Connecting
Wincing I glanced down. It hadn’t taken much to make that small blister appear in the hollow of my palm, that most tender of places on one’s hand. It’s my writing hand where a thin flap of skin now folded back. I’d just planted 30 daffodil bulbs in my garden but had...
