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Stop playing the game of passive communication

By Sevin Philips, MFT Passive forms of communication include passive aggressiveness, guilt, silent scorn, and eye rolling or other non-verbal behavior.

Passive communication forms such as these manifest into these passive forms when we are not in environments or family systems that support our true feelings or needs.

We withhold our truth in an attempt to avoid [...]

MyCoolJob: Industrial Engineer

Tim Leopold, and industrial engineer with Honda, talks about his job. This video is being used as part of mycooljob.org, a production of WOSU Public media.

Mycooljob.org is designed for middle-schoolers and early high school students, to give them a taste of the real world after graduation, to show the pluses — and minuses — of [...]

Speak First Testimonial – Communication Training – EMC

Jamie Horton from EMC Computer Systems has found it a pleasure to work with Speak First, who provide Presentation Skills training for the company. Being a highly sales-based company, EMC staff have to be able to deliver high impact sales presentations and Speak First have tailored training programmes to help them achieve just that. These [...]

Sales Presentation Experts explain the first Presidential Debate in 180 seconds!

New from http://www.yBC.TV

So the first of the four presidential debates has taken place and the pundits are dissecting the issues. YouTube is going wild. The bloggers are off the rails. And the business television networks are pulling the debate apart blow by blow. But not everyone has time to sit through this, [...]

Peggy Klaus – Soft Skills on the Job

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/02/Peggy_Klaus_on_Recession-Proofing_Your_Career

Author and Career Coach Peggy Klaus discusses the importance of on-the-job “soft skills” such as interpersonal communication and leadership.

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Recession-Proofing Your Career with Peggy Klaus.

Recession jitters are the signal it’s time to sharpen your soft-skills repertoire. While the hard skills (your technical expertise) certainly matter, Klaus says, they aren’t enough if you can’t [...]