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Writing Tips - Comma Splices

Writing Tips - Comma Splices

Edward Barr

Too often, writers have so much to say that they try to pack it all into one sentence, like a suitcase with too many clothes.  In the process they write...

Writing Tips - Comma Splices

Edward Barr

Too often, writers have so much to say that they try to pack it all into one sentence, like a suitcase with too many clothes.  In the process they write...

Do You Make Eye Contact?

Do You Make Eye Contact?

Edward Barr

Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, according to Quantified Communications, but we should be making eye contact 60% to 70% for...

Do You Make Eye Contact?

Edward Barr

Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, according to Quantified Communications, but we should be making eye contact 60% to 70% for...

Listening

Listening

Edward Barr

People who seem like they're paying attention often aren't—even when they're smiling and nodding toward the speaker. Research by Alison Wood Brooks, Hanne Collins, and colleagues reveals just how prone the mind...

Listening

Edward Barr

People who seem like they're paying attention often aren't—even when they're smiling and nodding toward the speaker. Research by Alison Wood Brooks, Hanne Collins, and colleagues reveals just how prone the mind...

Are You Networking?

Are You Networking?

Edward Barr

Let’s face it, no one really likes to network. Few people say, “I can’t wait to go to that networking event tonight.”  But, as the pundit once asked a colleague,...

Are You Networking?

Edward Barr

Let’s face it, no one really likes to network. Few people say, “I can’t wait to go to that networking event tonight.”  But, as the pundit once asked a colleague,...

Are You Kinetic?

Are You Kinetic?

Edward Barr

We gravitate to people who have these qualities, people who are KINETIC, ENERGETIC, ENTHUSIASTIC, especially if we don’t have them ourselves.

Are You Kinetic?

Edward Barr

We gravitate to people who have these qualities, people who are KINETIC, ENERGETIC, ENTHUSIASTIC, especially if we don’t have them ourselves.

Is Your Mind Wandering?

Is Your Mind Wandering?

Edward Barr

If asked, people sat that their MINDS WANDER 10% of the time. HOWEVER, research has shown that, during the normal day, your mind wanders AS MUCH AS 30% of the...

Is Your Mind Wandering?

Edward Barr

If asked, people sat that their MINDS WANDER 10% of the time. HOWEVER, research has shown that, during the normal day, your mind wanders AS MUCH AS 30% of the...