I ALWAYS prefer email communication. ALWAYS. Here’s why.
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- EMAILS NEVER INTERRUPT ME. They always wait until I’m ready to read them, and they wait until I’m ready to answer them. On the other hand, I am so busy, pretty much all the time, that a phone call has about a 98.4473% chance of interrupting me doing something. Text messages are almost as bad, because they come in regardless of what you are doing. However, they can be more readily ignored than a phone call. But they are not put off nearly as easily as an email.
Continue reading EMail! →
Here’s an emai I just wrote to a friend. It seemed worthy of being posted here.
I’ve been thinking recently about communication styles, most particularly since I got a text message a couple weeks ago about communicating with others in their preferred styles.
I’d like to share with you how and why I use various styles of communication. I’m always open to learning new things and changing my preferences, and I would very much value your thoughts on this as well.
There are currently only a few main styles of communicating Continue reading Communication Styles →
In my previous post, Learning To Listen, I talked about how important it is to listen, yet how few people truly know how to do that.
This brought up the question in my mind, “What do we do when confronted with a person who won’t stop talking?”
We’ve all had instances in which someone latches on to us and tries to unload everything they know. The details of their latest operation. The latest happenings with their kids or grandkids. Complaints about their job, their coworkers, or the food.
We realize it’s important to listen, but where’s the limit? Continue reading Dealing With Motormouths →
Discussion of Citizenship and Daily Life
