Comments on: Clashing Communicators http://www.drogrady.com/negatalkers/clashing-communicators/ Dr. Dennis O'Grady customizes business programs for customer-centered communication. Past programs designed and developed for major corporate clients have resulted in supervisors, managers and executives elevating their communication strengths. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:58:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://www.drogrady.com/negatalkers/clashing-communicators/comment-page-1/#comment-14674 Jonathan Fri, 25 May 2007 16:56:16 +0000 http://www.drogrady.com/?p=357#comment-14674 Dear Dennis, Talking with you was a highlight for my day! I have always wanted to know how to improve on communicating but only heard the same old stuff and I was still left confused about where I fit into the mix. You enlightened me and were a great encouragement. I did "tweak" the quote to read as follows: "You dispelled the myth that because my wife is a woman, that she doesn't get it because I'm a man. My wife can take the conversation in a totally different direction, and I thought it was because she is an emotionally based woman. But now I know that I'm an Instigator and my wife is an Empathizer. If we learn your communicator trait system, I believe we can learn to communicate better, and we won't miscommunicate as often. Also, I can apply this to my profession. If I can put myself in the customers shoes, and understand where their coming from, I can go further in business, too." --Jonathan Carl, Routsong Funeral Home Dear Dennis,

Talking with you was a highlight for my day! I have always wanted to know how to improve on communicating but only heard the same old stuff and I was still left confused about where I fit into the mix. You enlightened me and were a great encouragement.

I did “tweak” the quote to read as follows: “You dispelled the myth that because my wife is a woman, that she doesn’t get it because I’m a man. My wife can take the conversation in a totally different direction, and I thought it was because she is an emotionally based woman. But now I know that I’m an Instigator and my wife is an Empathizer. If we learn your communicator trait system, I believe we can learn to communicate better, and we won’t miscommunicate as often. Also, I can apply this to my profession. If I can put myself in the customers shoes, and understand where their coming from, I can go further in business, too.” –Jonathan Carl, Routsong Funeral Home

]]> By: John http://www.drogrady.com/negatalkers/clashing-communicators/comment-page-1/#comment-14646 John Fri, 25 May 2007 11:03:53 +0000 http://www.drogrady.com/?p=357#comment-14646 THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS By Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. from Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith 1968, 2001 All rights reserved. Available at www.paradoxicalcommandments.com THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
By Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

from Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith 1968, 2001 All rights reserved. Available at http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com

]]> By: Dr. Dennis O'Grady http://www.drogrady.com/negatalkers/clashing-communicators/comment-page-1/#comment-14645 Dr. Dennis O'Grady Fri, 25 May 2007 10:50:05 +0000 http://www.drogrady.com/?p=357#comment-14645 Communication isn't gender driven. Put on the brakes to bad communication. Don't be lazy and blame the other sex for your talk woes and slow downs on the two-way communicator highway. You can take the conversation in a totally different direction using the "Talk to Me" system. Why not? Also, you can put yourself in the customers' shoes, and understand better where they're coming from, to become an authentic communicator who goes further in business, too. Communication isn’t gender driven. Put on the brakes to bad communication. Don’t be lazy and blame the other sex for your talk woes and slow downs on the two-way communicator highway. You can take the conversation in a totally different direction using the “Talk to Me” system. Why not? Also, you can put yourself in the customers’ shoes, and understand better where they’re coming from, to become an authentic communicator who goes further in business, too.

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