by Alan | Oct 31, 2005 | Communication skills
Was in the middle of an email correspondance today about 3 transitions deep. Response comes back:”Can you check your vm?” Independent of the fact that we just got a new voice mail system and I did the required steps but did not bother to learn the...
by Alan | Oct 30, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, Parenting
Had a moment of inconsolable crisis tonite. Our kids got helium baloons at lunch today, and despite repeated warnings, our daughter let hers go upon coming home and it rose out of reach to our cathedral ceiling in the living room. For the next ten minutes, we heard...
by Alan | Oct 29, 2005 | Communication skills, Flying
I’m a pilot and love aviation and just about everything about it (except the cost). Today I finally got to go up on a pristine clean day after a long hiatus. Took The Boy and let him have some stick time (as far as he knows) for the first time in his life. Great...
by Alan | Oct 28, 2005 | Business, Communication skills, Delivery
Some odd items were displayed very publicly in our office building. Being curious folk, questions were asked. First in private, then increasingly more public. I personally was asked a half dozen times before the electronic message boards lit up. Those that knew or had...
by Alan | Oct 26, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery
Worked with a speaker again today. Having seen marked improvement in so many areas, I pushed a little today on some things that are habitual and ingrained. For this particular speaker, it was voice inflection. For others it could be gestures, movement, eye contact, or...
