by Pablo German | May 1, 2020 | communication, learning, personal development
Would you like to help someone improve? Providing feedback, when done effectively, allows the person receiving the information to improve their performance. When done incorrectly, it may be ignored, it may be discouraging, and it can even damage the relationship...
by Pablo German | Feb 2, 2020 | AIMER, audience, communication, public speaking
In the last blog we saw how looking after relationships first is more important than trying to achieve something. How do you create and look after those relationships? By building trust. Whenever you are collaborating and communicating with people, if you want to have...
by Pablo German | Dec 29, 2019 | communication
There is a stereotype that South American people have an emotional range that can reach higher levels of intensity, or at least that we are more prone to show and act under those emotions than people from other cultures. The stereotype goes in both directions in terms...
by Pablo German | Dec 8, 2019 | communication, personal development
More than 20 years ago I watched the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson for the first time. If you haven’t watched it, I recommend you do. I remember that I sympathised with Nicholson’s character R.P. McMurphy. He seems to be rebelling against...
by Pablo German | Nov 23, 2019 | audience, communication, learning, personal development
It is perhaps ironic that I became so interested in communication, when in my teenage years my passion was playing chess. When playing chess there is no need for communication with other people, in chess the best idea wins. There is no need to convince other people...
by Pablo German | Oct 27, 2019 | communication, learning, personal development
In the previous blog posts, we looked at becoming a learning machine through reflection and how to reflect. Reflection or reflective practice is a way to learn from our own experiences with the objective to improve the way we think and act. Reflective practice can be...
