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Top Four Barriers to Finding Common Ground

  • Assumption. "I already know what others know, feel and want."
  • Arrogance. "I don’t need to know what others know, feel or want."
  • Indifference. "I don’t care to know what others know, feel or want."
  • Control. "I don’t want others to know what I know, feel or want."

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Key Principles To Develop The Crucial Skill Of Connecting

Key Principles To Develop The Crucial Skill Of Connecting

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence on them.

The principles to develop this skill include:

  • Find common ground
  • Keep your communication simple
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“Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.”

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Humor, Heart, Hope, Help

  • Humor is something that will make the audience laugh and put them in a receptive mood.
  • Heart will captivate people’s emotions and get them engaged with your message.
  • Hope will inspire the audience and move them toward an ob...

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When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.

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“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”

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Connecting Goes Beyond Words

If you want to be successful in connecting with people, you need to make sure your communication goes beyond words, by connecting on four levels.

  • Visually: You have seven seconds to make the right first impression.
  • Intellectually: To co...

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Keeping Your Communication Simple

Keeping Your Communication Simple

Constantly strive to simplify the complicated concepts and processes so you can make them accessible for the audience.

Don't try to impress the people in the room but to transfer information and to help make things understandable.

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