Topic
Communication
270 published works
Cordell Parvin Blog
9 Things to Do Next Time
Next time: You are ready to hit the send button for an email to a client, pick up the telephone and call. You are getting ready to send an email…
The Right Coast
A Small Talk Survival Guide for the Schmooze-Averse | Entrepreneur.com
It's difficult for your opening line to be too small. "Hi, I'm Kevin" is not too small. "Hot out today" is not too small. You're not really giving the other…
Marketing Brain Fodder
The Message That Connects
Marshall McLuhan -- a godfather of 20th-century communication theory -- characterized one of the challenges inherent in connecting when he coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” Seth Godin…
Marketing Brain Fodder
Three Keys To Communication That Inspires Action
The alarm – a digitized-siren-sound of some sort – was wailing. No one able to hear could have missed the intended warning. Yet no one in the 40-story high-rise was…
Marketing Brain Fodder
Where Communication, Marketing and Effective Business Development Begin
Every student of communication theory is familiar with the concept of Shared Experiences. This is the coveted sweet-spot where barriers fall, gaps are bridged, and -- thanks to commonalities --…
Marketing Brain Fodder
Prescription For A Productive Dialogue
In the wake of another Sunday morning buffet of current affairs television programming, and on the eve of Independence Day celebration in the U.S., two thoughts occurred. First -- one…
The Legal Whiteboard
What is the “Ignite” Format of Presentation?
Ignite rules are simple: a talk with 20 PowerPoints that advance automatically every 20 seconds. Six minutes to make your point. It you don't know your material, it's a disaster. …
The Legal Whiteboard
The Eye Contact Revolution
Several years ago, a student wrote in my teaching evaluations that I had a hard time with eye contact; the context was office hours. I had not really thought about…
Louise Rosen Byer Blog
What Words Say … About Us?
Recent interesting reading in the Harvard Business Review supports the sound advice — choose your words carefully — if you can. Say what? In computer-assisted research over the past couple…
The Legal Whiteboard
Lawyer-Client Communication as a Process
What type of blogger would write a post titled, "Lawyer-Client Communication is Just Another Process to Improve"? To my mind, a very forward-thinking one. His name is Ron Friedmann, and…