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How to spot a liar

07/02/2018 /

In this TED talk, Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows how to become a liespotter and why to go the extra mile and go from liespotting to truth seeking, and ultimately to trust building.

First of all, we should start by accepting the following proposition: lying is a cooperative act. Any lie’s power emerges when someone else agrees to believe it. Furthermore, we’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries.

She then analizes different patterns: speech, body language, facial expressions and attitude.

According to her, the key is to combine the science of recognizing deceptionwith the art of looking, listening,exempting from collaborating in a lie. Doing so we may signal to everyone around that we are not going to cooperate in any lie.

Image source: Flickr – miss.killer! (CC BY 2.0)

7 Tips to be more effective

31/01/2018 /

In a short video, Brian Tracy, motivational public speaker, provides 7 simple tips that can help us to be more effective. Some of them are well know, but it does not mean that they are put in practice:

  1. Set your goals
  2. Remember that you are never “stuck”
  3. Discipline yourself
  4. Practice self-evaluation
  5. Learn how to say “no”
  6. Delegate
  7. Declutter your life

If you want to know more watch the full video.

The balance between talking and listening

10/01/2018 /

What are the ingredients of a great conversation? Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. Celeste Headlee, in her TEDx talk shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations.
Here are some of them:
1) “Be present (in the conversation)”
2) “Don’t pontificate”
3) “Use open ended questions”
4) “Go with the flow”
5) “If you don’t know, say it”
6) “Don’t mix your experience with theirs”
7)”Try not to repeat yourself”
8) “Stay out of the details”
9) “Listen”
10) “Be brief”

 

Leadership and drumming

03/01/2018 /

In his post for DDI, Bill Hester speculates on what it takes to be a gifted leader. Being passionate about drumming, Hester makes a comparison between leadership and drumming.

“Like a drummer, a leader sets the tempo, keeps everyone aligned, and—when he or she is really good—inspires us to do great things.”

Like good drummers, also for leaders it takes a lifetime of learning to really excel.

To know more read the original full post

Image source: Pixabay (CC0)

How do you see your glass?

01/01/2018 /

The Diplo calendar 2018 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes with simple advice that could help us to prevent or solve a problem.

Here is the selected quotation for the month of January. Some food for thought that will hopefully make your life easier.

How do you see your glass

Image: Original watercolours drawings by Beatrice Baldi (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

30/12/2017 /

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. Russell Lynes

Image source: Flickr – Rachel Allyson (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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