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Do's and Don'ts of Communicating With Aging Parents
By Mark Edinberg, Ph.D. - Communication is skill and art. Skills are specific types of verbal and nonverbal actions that help you get the results you want, including cooperation, joint decision making, and finding solutions to difficult issues. The art part is taking the skills and figuring out how to apply the skills to a specific situation. Your job as a caregiver is to decide what to use and how to use it. (Added: 13-Feb-2006 Hits: 674 )

Communicating With The Boss - Get Your Ideas Heard (Tips
By Robert Bacal - There are ways to communicate with "the boss" that create good working relationships, and those that tend to create conflict. Learn to talk to "get the ear of your boss", get heard, and build relationships that run smoother. (Added: 26-Nov-2003 Hits: 1681 )

Tips for EQ Communication: EQ Toolbox
By Joshua Freedman - An article on the emotional part of the everyday communication and its impact on our relations to other people. Everything isn't what it sounds like and we better be aware what we actually are communicating by those well-meaning words (Added: 18-Jul-2003 Hits: 983 )

Untangling Communication
By Dale H. Emery - Do you ever wonder why communication sometimes gets so tangled? In this article, I describe a model of how communication works, and show how to use the model to untangle communications, and to keep them from getting tangled in the first place. (Added: 25-Jun-2003 Hits: 1319 )

Engaging in conversation @ the informal education homepage
By NA - What is conversation? As a starter we can think of it as two or more people talking and listening. They may be doing this either face-to-face or at a distance. It can be done via the spoken word or via sign or symbol (the most obvious case here is the use of chat rooms on the internet). This may sound a bit obvious, but as soon as we begin to think about conversation we can see it is a sophisticated activity that we often take for granted. Here we will start by listing some important qualities. (Added: 24-Mar-2003 Hits: 670 )

Beware the Bermuda Communication Triangle
By Joan Lloyd, C.S.P. - Many managers tell me that they welcome employee complaints and have an open door policy, which is fine as a general practice. But where they capsize is when they unwittingly step into the conflict too soon, without following some simple guidelines. (Added: 4-Dec-2002 Hits: 849 )