Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Barriers to Effective Listening Skills Top 6
These are the Top 6 barriers to Effective Listening Skills that often cause difficulties. This video breaks down the top 6 barriers and gives tips to overcome them. This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on Active Listening Skills.
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Discovering Adjectives in a Story
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
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Pronouns: Simplifying Language in Sentences
This video explores the function of pronouns in English, highlighting their role in replacing nouns to streamline sentences. It demonstrates how pronouns like 'I', 'we', and 'they' can efficiently substitute for both proper and common...
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Adjectives in Action: Placement Matters
This video explores how adjectives function in sentences, focusing on their placement after verbs. Using examples like the colors of the American flag and the description of a hat, the lesson explains how adjectives can follow verbs to...
Curated Video
Career Pathways in Public Administration
Genna, a Grant Writer with the County of Fulton government in Ohio, believes that various degrees and skills prepare people well for a career in public administration, emphasizing the need for knowledge in accounting, finance, human...
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Interview Question and Answer: How Do You Communicate Effectively
In this video, I’ll demonstrate how to answer the competency-based interview question, "How do you communicate effectively?" Effective communication is crucial in the workplace and it's important to know what good communication is and...
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Understanding Similes: The Art of Comparison in Language
This video examines similes, a key figure of speech used for comparison in writing. It explains how similes, characterized by the use of "like" or "as," differ from metaphors and enhance clarity and impact in communication. The video...
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Exploring the Power of Figurative Language: Metaphors and Beyond
This video explores figurative language's role in writing, focusing on metaphors, similes, allusions, personification, and hyperbole. It highlights how these devices enhance understanding and persuasion, using examples and interactive...
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Listening Skills - Negotiation Tools
The number one skill for negotiators is communication. And listening skills are the most important aspect of communication. If you want to succeed in negotiation, you MUST get good at listening. So, this is what I talk about here.
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Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion
People have been persuading one another with their speech for as long as we have records. In many different cultures, aspiring lawyers, administrators, and politicians would have learned the science of rhetoric, of using language...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
7 Public Speaking Tips for Beginners
Here are 7 Public Speaking Tips for Beginners that will make your look, sound, and feel more confident immiately.
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Bist du mit deinem Job zufrieden? - German Listening Comprehension Exercise
This listening exercise in German explores the ambition and aspirations of two colleagues as they discuss their future career paths and ways to achieve their goals.
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Using Notes and Visual Aids
Using Notes and Visual Aids explores effective communication skills by reviewing how to effectively use notes and visual aids when giving a speech.
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What are leadership skills: are leaders trendsetters or managers?
What are leadership skills: are leaders trendsetters or managers?
Organizational Communication Channel
Top Verbal Communication Barriers (repost)
These Top 3 Verbal Communication Barriers will make effective communication and finding common ground more difficult, but look at some simple tips to overcome these barriers.
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Proxemics in Nonverbal Communication (Repost)
Proxemics is the nonverbal communication study of how much personal space people prefer to leave between themselves and others and it is a key feature of human interaction because it gives us cues about the nature of our relationships...
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Karl Weick Partial Inclusion
Karl Weick's Partial Inclusion is a useful concept to explain the various degrees to which organizational employees are committed to their workplaces. Weick explained this in his 1979 book, The Social Psychology of Organizing.
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Confirming and Disconfirming Communication
We can respond with confirming or disconfirming communication when we are having conversations with others. Our responses can either improve or detract from the quality of the interaction.
Organizational Communication Channel
Communication Skills: PowerLESS vs PowerFUL Talk
Did you know there are tell-tale PowerFUL vs PowerLESS verbal communication skills that you can use to improve your communication?
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Avoid These 3 PowerPoint Mistakes & Tips to Fix Them!
Avoid These 3 PowerPoint Mistakes and here are some simple tips to fix them. Public speaking and PowerPoint seem to go hand-in-hand but many speakers make the same mistakes when using slides.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Interrupt a Long-Winded Person
Here are 7 Tips to Politely Interrupt a Long-Winded Speaker. We'll practice the difficult parts together in the video so you can interrupt someone assertively, naturally, and politely.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Communication Professor Reacts to Will Smith's Apology Video
Communication Professor Reacts to Will Smith's video apology. Does Smith get it right this time? Does he fall short?
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Communication Professor Reacts to Steve Jobs iPhone 1 Speech
Communication Professor Reacts to Steve Jobs iPhone 1 Keynote Speech in 2007. What made this speech the standard for CEO speeches in the high-tech industry? What makes Jobs come across so confidently?
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Communication Professor Reacts to Miracle Locker Room Speech
Communication Professor reacts to the famous locker room speech from movie, Miracle, the real-life hockey story. What makes this short speech so powerful? Let's find out why it was a Miracle.