IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL THEN YOU AIN’T LEARNED NOTHIN’ YET
The first-ever “Talk to Me” communications training seminar was recently held at the Five Seasons Sports Club here in Bellbrook, Ohio. The snowflakes reminded each communicator of his/her uniqueness, as either an Empathizer-type (E-type) or Instigator-type (I-type) communicator. That’s one thing we all share in common! Most importantly, you drive either a blue E-type car, or a burnt orange I-type automobile, on your way to the Town of Talk.
FIRST THINGS FIRST…KNOW YOUR TYPE
If you don’t know your type — much less how your type works, worries, over-reacts, is perceived by the opposite type, feels and perceives and gets ticked off — you will judge others to be total idiots on the two-way communicator highway. Being a “know-it-all” turns you into a little person.
YOU ARE UNIQUE…THAT’S ONE THING EVERY HUMAN BEING SHARES IN COMMON
I was the original guinea pig of this new approach to good communication. That’s why my nose twitches! I had company, though, with 180 clinical study research subjects who wanted to depend on more than luck to get where they desire to go on their families, couples, children, coworkers and professional communication teams. I’m not sure how I ever practiced psychology without this license to drive sanely and serenely on the communication highway! You can get hurt if you don’t know the rules of the road or how to drive or where you want to go on the Communication Highway.
YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND…YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS
Talk to me…talk to you…you know how it feels to be misunderstood. Some of the ballyhoo at this Talk to Me training seminar that was more fun than fishing in a stocked pond (or climbing to the top of a tall tree and hollering “yahoo!”) includes:
1. Trying so hard to be right is always wrong.
2. First study your own communicator type to know when it’s time to move on and when it’s time to get going.
3. Understand why, in reality, you’ve got nothing to worry or fret about.
4. Take the “ten minute mental picnic” when you’re uptight and frazzled.
5. Understand that how you decide to talk to yourself (negatively or positively) about stress adds or subtracts loads of stress from your back.
6. Learn the “four talk modes”…you don’t have to stay where you are just because you’ve felt stuck there spinning your wheels for years.
7. Are you AT-ODDS or AT-UNDERSTANDING with your talk partner? Is your talk partner in your team canoe, or did you kick him or her out?
8. The “Talk to Me” approach boosts your energy by giving you ways to stay on top of relationship distress rather than watching miscommunication stress topple onto you.
9. If you think you know it all…then you ain’t learned nothin’ yet.
10. Learn why you can adopt the strengths of your opposite communicator type while avoiding the Achilles Heel of your own type.
11. Understand that how you parent and discipline your children or talk to your teen will change teeth-rattlingly fast when you use new talk avenues in this new approach to effective communication.
ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER AND SEMINAR LEADER DR. DENNIS O’GRADY
Go on a trip you won’t soon forget and get your kicks on Route 66, and talk to yourself and others in new ways that work wonders. Experience good results for yourself by using this new interpersonal communication approach found only in “Talk to Me: Communication Moves To Get Along With Anyone.” Don’t wait “until” all your ducks are lined up just right, or you lose out big in an important relationship, before you spend a few minutes taking care of YOU with help of the “Talk to Me” approach to relationship communication. No, this isn’t work…it’s fun, pleasurable and stress reducing. Your positive attitude will be boosted, your mood improve, junk not get ya’ down for long, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. Dr. Dennis O’Grady is a psychologist licensed to drive on the communication highway, who lives in Dayton, Ohio, USA.