Several years ago at a previous job, I was in a leadership meeting sitting beside a colleague/friend who had recently been hospitalized after being a little stressed out from his uber-demanding job.
Other than it being extremely cold, I know absolutely nothing about Siberia. Zero, zip, zilch, nada!
Have you ever heard the idiom, “beating around the bush?”. If you are not familiar with it, it basically means not getting to the point or avoiding the bottom line in a conversation.
I was recently reading a New York Times article about unlikely friendships between animals of different species. And it is truly amazing how they used something that is known as the friendship formula to both cultivate and maintain their relationship.
While reading People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts by Robert Bolton, Ph.D., I discovered that there are 12 roadblocks to effective communication. Recently, I was in the sauna at my gym with a good friend of mine and a lovely man who just happened to be a priest.