David J. Parnell’s Professional Listening Series | Part 1 – 4 | Effective...
The true functionality of “listening” to someone really is an elusive concept. When I talk about listening, you most likely think of hearing someone talk… Although this is a PART of the overall...
View ArticleDavid J. Parnell’s Professional Listening Series | Part 4 of 4 | Habits &...
Today we are going to finish our 4 part professional listening series by talking about quality listening habits that you can begin developing right away and we will look at skill preparation and...
View ArticleDavid J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 4 of 7 | How to...
OK, OK… So how do I use body language to be a more effective communicator? Body language can be used for a number of powerful applications in communication and this boil down to how you or the other...
View ArticleDavid J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 5 of 7 |...
Yesterday I introduced the 5 questions necessary to direct your mind through the effective usage of body language in any communication effort. I think it is important to repeat the fact that you should...
View ArticleDavid J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 6 of 7 | Body...
In following yesterdays post on manipulation of information delivery, let’s get right into the subsequent 2 categories of event prediction and sensory acuity… 1. Prediction of Events: When I say...
View ArticleThe Blueprint of a Listener | Part 1 of 3 | Stimulus Processing And Decoding
This one is a bit dense… So although it isn’t terribly lengthy I decided to break it up into three parts so you don’t fry your brain on it Although this is extremely foundational information, I believe...
View ArticleThe Blueprint of a Listener | Part 2 of 3 | The Mental Lexicon
Yesterday we discussed the initial exposure to the sound stimulus and phonemes. Today we are going to talk about how the brain turns the phonemes into words via our mental lexicon so let’s get to it…...
View ArticleThe Blueprint of a Listener | Part 3 of 3 | Mental/Lexical Categorization
Yesterday we discovered how the brain uses the mental lexicon to determine the literal meaning of the communication that is being presented to it. Today we will finish the segment by talking about how...
View ArticleDavid J. Parnell’s Crash Course on Cognitive Rule Set’s | Part 2 of 2 |...
Communication Expertise with Cognitive Rule Sets 2. So now that we have a rough frame work of how a decision is made, let’s talk about the rational component of this process which is the “cognitive...
View ArticleMood Congruency Recall and It’s Effect on Communication
The Effect of Mood Valence on Memory Recall and Communication. Have you ever noticed that when you are depressed that pretty much everything seems depressing? You may look at a couple happily walking...
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