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Building Relationship On Agreements (repost)

August 14, 2009

Every semester, the students change but the questions I hear remain the same. Where am I coming from with these agreements? Why do I think it so important to the well being of these students that I’m willing to spend precious time on it, time that I could just as well put into teaching other things that might be valuable for my students? What justifies the use of so much class time for these agreements?

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New Class in Healthy Communication Begins

August 10, 2009

Today is day one in my healthy communication class (Psyc 604) at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. This intensive is one of the most rewarding things I do each year, because I relish the chance to teach these future doctors

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Book Recommendation: Strategic Acceleration

May 11, 2009

Every once in a while, I post about books that I think are well worth your while.  Today, I want to tell you about one you don’t want to miss.  My fellow thought leader with CanDoGo, Tony Jeary, has a new book called Strategic Acceleration that delivers a powerfully important message to individuals and businesses [...]

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How Persuasive are The New PC vs Mac ads?

April 5, 2009

You see, the next round of ads hyping the price advantage of buying a PC vs a Mac are now out. This isn’t the first time the claim was made. It doesn’t generally hold up, unless one leaves out quality and the cost of ownership, customer satisfaction, ease of use, and focuses exclusively on the cost of purchase. But put that aside for the moment and consider the ads themselves. They’re clever, and they’re getting a lot of press.

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Habit and Cynicism, Obstacles to Progress?

March 24, 2009

When it comes to progress, cynicism is perfectly understandable. When you think about all the change you’ve witnessed or been promised in your lifetime, most things didn’t happen the way they were predicted to happen, most didn’t happen at all, and most of what did happen didn’t wind up where anyone said it would. When positive change is the promise, but everything actually remains the same or gets worse, well, it’s easy to become cynical.

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Can Fear and Cynicism Actually Cause Pain?

March 23, 2009

I learned that one reason for end of life pain is holding on desperately to life out of the fear of dying. Other terminal people suffer at the end of life because they have become cynical about life itself, having found no deeper meaning in their own. All the things people learn to do to numb themselves and distract themselves from a lack of meaning in their lives stop working at the end and the collective pain is suddenly and overwhelmingly expressed.

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Will Americans Be Fooled Again?

September 12, 2008

With less than two months before our fateful election day, it seems increasingly likely that the smears and jeers that accentuate our fears will continue to raise cheers from the people sitting on their rears blithely watching us tumble further towards oblivion. It’s the effective use for the sake of abuse of the art of persuasion. I wrote my book to warn you, prepare you, train you and encourage you to put these tools into good use for good cause, instead of leaving them in the hands of people who are only up for no good to bring us all down. Well, consider the who, the where, the when and how of it, and here is what you’ll find.

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Ron Ross WJBC Interviews Dr. Rick Kirschner

September 11, 2008

Ron Ross, of WJBC, the Voice of McClean County in Bloomington, Illinois, interviewed communication skills expert Dr. Rick Kirschner recently in his ‘interview of the day’ segment. They discussed the persuasion strategies of the candidates and their skills and weaknesses.

You can hear the interview by subscribing to his WJBC Interview of the Day podcast

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