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The Clock Struck Midnight

Happy Mother's DayHappy Mother’s Day text messages warmed my heart throughout the day. So much so that I sat pensive. I realized that I was loving the very moment that I’d become aware. It was perfect. It needed nothing and then it was gone. How often are you aware of the moment? Or a day that seems perfectly made for you? Imagine it. They are rare. Mother’s Day 2016 was that day for me.

And then the clock struck midnight. Life interrupted! Prepare for interruptions. Expect the unexpected. Finding a humane trap that prevented leaving her den, the skunk living under my front stoop when the clock struck midnight, filled my home with her wrath. She was spraying mad. Continue reading “The Clock Struck Midnight”

5 Barriers to Communication

5 Barriers to Communication

It’s difficult to win friends and influence people positively if you’re engaging in offensive behaviors that set people’s teeth on edge. Often people are unaware of behaviors that cultivate barriers to communication, especially when authority relationships exist. Stop your employees or coworkers are talking behind you back, review the five barriers to communication. Be honest with yourself if you identify behaviors that seem all too familiar. Change is possible when you become aware of what needs to change.

Avoid these 5 Barriers to Communication

1. Excessive authority, bullying and creating fear of openness in others

Excessive authority is often the result of assertiveness on steroids. While assertiveness helps those in authority to stay on task and to achieve goals, aggressiveness can raise its head turning directness into disconfirming behaviors which cause the object of the aggressive message to shrink back. Restrictions to open communications, if left unchecked, will stunt the growth of an organization and its people. Create a fear free workplace and home life where communicative openness is appreciated and rewarded. Continue reading “5 Barriers to Communication”