https://madelaineweiss.com/1-great-communication-tip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1-great-communication-tip Board Certified Executive, Career, Life Coach, Licensed Psychotherapist Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://madelaineweiss.com/1-great-communication-tip/#comment-209 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:03:30 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=4218#comment-209 Yes indeed, there are lots of uses for the pause. I keep meaning to test this one, pausing while speaking to capture attention, which I am noticing is easier said than done!

]]> https://madelaineweiss.com/1-great-communication-tip/#comment-208 Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:05:39 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=4218#comment-208 Yes, that gives me “pause,” too. Not only in communication with others, but also when conversing in my head with myself, putting the notion aside for awhile leads, I think, to a better formulation, presentation or plan. I like to come up with an idea about something I want to do or communicate, but then work out at the health club and take a dip in the swimming pool for an interlude before I try to formulate it as my proposition or opinion, and communicate it to someone else. As a matter of fact, when I don’t take a pause, I invariably regret it either because I have been to hasty, too opionated (which will elicit skepticism and resistance) or too patronizing (same result), or not yet done organizing my thoughts. (And often I have mispelled something, too, to boot!).

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