The 7-38-55 Rule: Reading Between the Lines

The 7-38-55 Rule: Reading Between the Lines

What is the 7-38-55 Rule of communication? What percentage of meaning is contained in words? And how much of communication is really non-verbal? The 7-38-55 Rule is a concept of communication. It states that seven percent of meaning is communicated through speech, 38 percent through tone of voice, and 55 percent comes from body language. Read about the 7-38-55 Rule of communication.

Negotiation Black Swan: The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Negotiation Black Swan: The Last Piece of the Puzzle

What is a Black Swan in negotiation? What kind of information does it contain? A Black Swan in negotiation is some hidden piece of information that, if it were known, would completely transform the dynamic of the negotiation and the final outcome. Finding the Black Swan is the last piece of the puzzle to succeed in a negotiation. Keep reading to learn how to find a Black Swan in every negotiation.

Conflict Resolution Skills for Kids: Show, Don’t Tell

Conflict Resolution Skills for Kids: Show, Don’t Tell

How do you explain conflict resolution to a kid? What are some strategies to teach conflict resolution skills to children? Conflict resolution requires multiple social skills that your child needs help developing. Specifically, teaching conflict resolution to kids involves teaching them to see another person’s perspective, interpret nonverbal communication, and make amends for their wrongdoing. Here are some basic skills for conflict resolution in kids.

Get in Touch With Your Emotions: 4 Simple Strategies

You can heal with love. Discover how the love you feel in your heart can improve your physical health and help you overcome illness.

Do you often feel like you can’t decide how you feel about something or someone? What can you do to get in touch with your emotions? It’s not always easy to get in touch with your emotions, especially when it comes to painful or otherwise emotionally-charged experiences. We often unconsciously suppress our emotions to the point where we feel confused, sometimes even numb. Read more to learn how to get in touch with your emotions and identify what is driving them.

Win-Win Negotiation: The Perils and Pitfalls

Win-Win Negotiation: The Perils and Pitfalls

What is a win-win negotiation? Why does this idea have so much currency? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the win-win approach to negotiation? A win-win negotiation is a negotiation based in compromise. It stipulates that negotiating counterparts should look for common ground and seek terms that they can both live with. Keep reading for more about win-win negotiation.

Expressing Feelings: Tips to Improve Communication

You can heal with love. Discover how the love you feel in your heart can improve your physical health and help you overcome illness.

Do you struggle with expressing feelings beyond the simple, everyday emotions? How can you get better at expressing more complex and nuanced feelings? Our culture doesn’t value expressing our feelings, so we’re never taught healthy ways to express strong emotions. As a result, most of us have limited emotional vocabulary, preventing us from expressing feelings with their afforded nuance and subtlety. Here are some tips to help you get better at expressing your feelings.

How to Emotionally Connect With Anyone in 4 Steps

How to Emotionally Connect With Anyone in 4 Steps

Do you want to learn how to emotionally connect with anyone, regardless of their age, role, sex, or background? How do you break that initial barrier and connect on a deeper, more meaningful level? Emotional connection is the foundation of any solid relationship. If you want to know how to emotionally connect with people and go beyond surface-level interaction, you need to be present, attentive, and intentional about it. Keep reading to find out how to emotionally connect with anyone and take your interactions to a deeper, more meaningful level.

Debunking the Top 2 Myths About Memory

Debunking the Top 2 Myths About Memory

What are the most common myths about memory? How do memory myths keep you from making sense of your past experiences? There are a few common myths about memory that hinder people’s ability to understand and manage their memories. Just like the other brain functions, when you know how your brain stores and processes memories, you can prevent them from controlling you.  Here are 2 most common myths about memory debunked.

Reading Emotions: Getting Beneath the Surface

Reading Emotions: Getting Beneath the Surface

Does reading emotions come easy to you? Do you think you can always decipher a person’s true emotional state behind their outward demeanor? Reading emotions of others is not always easy. In some situations, people don’t want to reveal their true emotional state for whatever reason. More often that not, however, they end up doing so inadvertently. But it takes a keen eye to decipher it. Keep reading to to learn how to master reading emotions that are hidden beneath the surface of the superficial demeanor.