From the course: Communicating with Confidence
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The power of presence when you communicate
From the course: Communicating with Confidence
The power of presence when you communicate
- We often get carried away when we are talking to others because we are stuck in our own heads, right? And often we're not listening to what others are saying when they're speaking. We are just waiting for our turns to speak. Not sure about you, but I'm definitely guilty of this one. You know, to stop ourselves from just listening to respond and try to shift towards listening to understand, I'm going to share with you three techniques to help you become more present in your everyday conversations. When you notice someone shares something with heightened emotions, and what I mean by heightened emotion is when they're sharing something with more emotion than usual. And when I sense that, when I sense that heightened emotion, I will immediately ask three follow-up questions. Let me give you an example. If I was talking to someone and I said, "Hey, how was your weekend?" And the other person looks back at me and they say, "Oh, it was okay. It was just really stressful." Did you notice…
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