The Success Zone

So you think you are a great listener? Test yourself against these five traits and see how well you do. Give yourself a rating from 1 to 5 on each trait (1 is rarely or poorly expressed, 5 is habitually and permanently a part of the way you listen). 1. Quiet mind listening Great listeners [...]

There are many ways that we can disengage another buy applying conversation-killing habits. Oftentimes we don’t even know that we have reduced the engagement. The secret element of connection with another person is attention. Not just any attention – authentic attention on them for them. Each of the conversation killers listed below act in some [...]

Warmth and competence are two measures that we use to judge according to a new model from psychologists Susan Fiske of Princeton University and Peter Glick of Lawrence University. While these judgements are often inaccurate and stereotyped, this model still provides some interesting points of comparison and reflection. Interestingly, incorrect correlations were seen in the [...]