List of bad things Conservatives say about Trump.
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The Social Dilemma Transcript – Main Arguments
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
History of Health Misinformation
This lesson on the History of Health Misinformation provides evidence that Health Misinformation has been with us from our beginning.
Focus on Intent
This Lesson help you learn the skills needed to “Focus on Intent” in communicating. In almost all cases every party to the communication has a different intent in the communication.
The effectiveness of the communication is directly tied to the extent the “intentions” of all the parties aline.
How to Be an Active Listener
Active listening is a way of listening that involves full attention to what is being said for the primary purpose of understanding the speaker. And, understanding the speaker is fundamental to getting what you want. Active listening is an important skill set for many...
The Misinformation Effect
The Misinformation Effect and False Memories The misinformation effect refers to the tendency for post-event information to interfere with the memory of the original event. Researchers have shown that the introduction of even relatively subtle information following an...
Self Assessment Survey
This lesson is another Self Assessment Survey intended to help us discover our communication strengths and weaknesses.
Conservative’s Defense of Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion
Conservative's Defense of Amy Coney Barrett's Religion The post below provides evidence of selective perception. Specifically, the evidence of Selective Perception is the Conservative's defense of Amy Coney Barrett's religion. GOP Defends Amy Coney Barrett’s...
5 Communication Skills Needed to Thrive in the 21st Century
5 Communication Skills Need to Thrive in the 21st Century Focus on Intent Honesty - Sync between Verbal and Non-verbal Active Listening Brevity Take Responsibility for Communication Problems
Modes of Persuasion
Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion The Greeks are good at a lot of stuff. Weddings. Smashing plates. Growing (and marinating) olives. But, unbeknownst to many, they also have a rich history in advertising. Before there was Ogilvy, there was...
The Origins of Identity Politics
Identity politics is all around us. Whether you know it or not, we are all bathing in it. Some Americans have embraced it gladly, while others have simply become inured to it and no longer bat an eyelid. Many others, however, have begun to take notice, and to them something does not seem right.
Look Good on a Video Call
Look Good On A Video Call I started selling video conferencing in the '80s. Back then, there wasn't a lot of bandwidth and equipment was expensive. But, as Moore's Law has proven, things got a whole lot faster and a whole lot cheaper. Today, you can do virtually the...
Virtual Meeting Etiquette
This lesson on Virtual Meeting Etiquette will help you learn the current standards of behavior for virtual meetings. Mastering this etiquette is helpful in our 21st Century hyper-connected digital world.
How the Mind Makes Meaning
Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning. By Benjamin K. Bergen. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780465028290. $27.99 Imagine that you are a participant in the following psycholinguistic experiment. You are seated in front of a...
Hiring Trends – 2018
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Heritage Foundation Take on Fake News
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment< Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Mr. Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Stepman wrote In the wake of President Donald Trump’s...
Pragmatics of Human Communication
Updated March 1, 2023 – A Lesson on the Watzlawick, Bavelas, and Jackson book – The Pragmatics of Human Communication. Adds new thinking about Information and Cognitive Science to this seminal and highly influential work.
How to Build a Core Competency
There is an old joke about 2 campers in woods. A bear approaches. One of the campers starts putting on his running shoes. The other camper asks, “Why are you putting on running shoes? You can’t outrun a bear!” To which the first camper replies, “I don’t have to...
Noise as a Fundamental Obstacle to Learning
Noise as a Fundamental Obstacle to Learning Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason is "Noise."...
How to Teach Civil Debate
How to Teach Civil Debate Every community confronts divisive times. A healthy community has figured out how to have disagreements without being disagreeable. So, a key skill is teaching how to have a civil debate. The civicsrenewalnetwork.org offers a range of...
Public Speaking Help
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking A post caught my eye The New Bible for Public Speaking. It's from townhall.com, a very conservative media outlet. And while the author mentions Trump in this piece, it is still important. The take-aways from this post are:...
Mediated Democracy – The Future of Political Agency
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
There is no Racism
Source, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/05/08/georgia-murder-arrest-n2568454 I feel so sorry for the family of this young man, apparently a very nice young man at that, but please, can we have a moratorium on calling every single death of anyone of...
A Stable Political System can be achieved using Fractal Thinking
A Stable Political System Can be Achieved Using fractal thinking Fractal Thinking Quotes "The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never...
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking A post caught my eye The New Bible for Public Speaking. It's from townhall.com, a very conservative media outlet. And while the author mentions Trump in this piece, it is still important. The take-aways from this post are:...
History of Writing
This lesson on the History of Writing is intended to help the community establish a baseline understanding of the communication forces that influence our personal understanding of the world around us. By better understanding the history writing, we can better understand the natural laws that influence our decision-making today.
How to Write a Vision and Mission Statement
How to Write a Vision and Mission Statement Do you know where your business is headed? And how it’s going to get there? Do you know where you are going? Do you know when you get there? Clear mission and vision statements will certainly help you focus on your core...
Commonly Misused Phrases That Will Make You Sound Unprofessional
Commonly Misused Phrases That Will Make You Sound Unprofessional It’s easy to fall into language traps that are all around us. And, of course, there’s something to be said for the ever-changing nature of common terms and phrases. After all, the dictionary is an...
Humble Inquiry
Humble Inquiry - The best way to learn more. American culture prioritizes action, practicality, and competition over courteousness and respect. But there’s a different way. In his popular book, retired MIT professor Edgar H. Schein encourages openness and curiosity...
Giving Feedback
Providing Feedback is a fundamental force in Communication. This lesson suggests three things to do before giving feedback: assess the quality of your relationship, diagnose the situation and clarify your motives, make sure there is clear agreement about goals, roles, and expectations.
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset”
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset” So often in preparing to communicate, we make a fundamental mistake: we enter a messenger mindset. Rather than establishing a clear goal and aiming to persuade our audience, we set out to inform, to update, to share. On this path, we end...
Understand Bias
Develop the Skills to Understand Bias
How to Use Questions Effectively
How to use Questions Effectively Questions to Consider in Conversations Questions are a great way to start and maintain successful communication. Here are some suggestions of questions to consider in conversations. But, the questions have to be honest and you really...
Communication Skills to Improve Decision Making
The Most Important Communication Skills Needed to Improve your Decision Making And Information Gathering. Becoming a great communicator – what does it mean and what does it take? Communication Styles De-Coded: How to identify and understand the different communication...
Communication Skills
The Most Important Communication Skills Needed to Improve your Decision Making And Information Gathering. Becoming a great communicator – what does it mean and what does it take? Communication Styles De-Coded: How to identify and understand the different communication...
Communicating Ideas
Communicating Ideas At some point in our lives, we all have to communicate an idea or concept to someone or some audience. Sometimes the idea is simple and the communication is simple. Sometimes the idea is complex and that raises the difficulty of communicating...
Asking Why Could be Bad
Asking Why questions can be very bad if you're not carful. “Why? Why not?” These questions seem innocent—even helpful. But they’re quietly killing your business. When someone hears “why” or “why not,” they are primed to justify the current situation. Your team hears...
Communication Careers List
Communication Careers List Last Updated - July 9, 2019 Public Relations Journalism Media Production and Direction Graphic Design and Direction Information Management Network Management Speech/Language Therapy Please note: The communication careers list was...
Goal of Communication is to Get What You Want
Communication is about getting what you want When I go to a restaurant and I give the waiter my order, I am communicating that I want the waiter to tell the Cook to make something and when it is ready to bring it to me. I communicate to get food. Getting what you...
Communication Careers
What career opportunities are with a communication degree? Career Options: There are many career paths that a person with a Communication Major can choose. Here are some job titles that former graduates with Communication Majors hold. Use this as an ideas list,...
6 Communication Rules to Follow
Before I get into the golden rules of communication, it’s important to understand how our understanding of communication has changed. Yes, plenty has stayed the same – people are still people, after all – but the way that people interact with one another and the...
Commonly Misused Phrases
It’s easy to fall into language traps that are all around us. And, of course, there’s something to be said for the ever-changing nature of common terms and phrases. After all, the dictionary is an ever-evolving entity that adds phrases and words all the time to...
Barriers to Effective Communication
There are some things you might be doing to undermine your effectiveness as a communicator, and you may not even know you’re doing them. Over-Communicating You’re not an effective communicator if you just repeat the same message over and over. If you want to remind...
How to Encourage Responsible and Meaningful Engagement in Public Discourse
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
9 Traits of Emerging Disruptors
9 Traits of Emerging Disruptors Disruption causes quantum shifts in industries and societal behavior by digitizing the analog, upending economic models and otherwise challenging the status quo. The disruptors think differently and act differently than the incumbents....
Talking to Conservatives
This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
The 2 Most Important Things we Always Need to Learn to Be Successful
The two most important things we always need to learn to be successful are: 1) how to use the tools available to us, and 2) how to use our minds to best use the tools. And the important reality is that while the tools we need to learn to be successful change all the...
2 Examples of Trump's Racism in One Week that Should Scare Us All!
Two things happened this week that clearly point to Trump's Racism. And it should scare us all. Event 1 - The beating of a Black man at a Trump Rally. This event reminds me of the treatment of Jews prior to WWII. Event 2 - Trump tweeted out a patently false,...
Solution Aversion – Why people believe what they believe
The Learning Community is always interested in what causes some to refuse to learn. A recent study on this subject by Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay of Duke University adds an intriguing new idea to the mix: “solution aversion.” Motivated Reasoning is something the...
We need to Seek Understanding First in our efforts in finding Common Ground rather than fight
Bill Maher asked this question, "Do you think social media made us bigger assholes, or we were bigger assholes and it just exposed us as being that?" Maher posed the question to Nerdist Industries CEO, and host of @Midnight on Comedy Central, Chris Hardwick, after...
The Difficulty to Building Consensus is on clear display with Religion on Wikipedia. But there are solutions. Like Separating Facts and Conclusions, and transparency to the source.
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
Giving Constructive Feedback without making people angry
A Leadership IQ study found that 81% of leaders avoid giving tough feedback because they’re afraid the recipient will respond will react badly (with anger, denial, blame or excuses). How do we expect our organizations and employees to improve if we’re afraid to give...
Words to Avoid
There are certain words we hear in conversation that can instantly set us off. They're the kind of words that our brains hear as attacks and thus prompt us to react defensively (and sometimes even aggressively). In a recent study, we discovered a whole slew of...
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech…and why your words barely matter! Published on July 10, 2012 by Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, M.D. in Words Can Change Your Brain I’d like you to take a moment to experience the following sentence, taken from a...
10 Skills of Confident People
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. 1. They take...
Phil Jackson Uses “Learning Communities!”
In a Review of Phil Jackson's new book, Eleven Rings (for the 11 championship rings won by Jackson), Dave Logan says, "Jackson was successful because he turned the teams he coached into learning communities." They were learning communities because he learning from...