Communication Skills: How to Speak and be Heard

      Did you hear me?  I'm talking to you...are you listening?  How many times do I have to repeat myself?  I already told you.  Don't ask me a question if you're not going to listen to the answer.  I need you to...

     Honestly I get tired of hearing myself sometimes, but one thing that I know for sure is that everyone else stopped listening a long time ago.  At least that's how it seems.

      I have sometimes wondered aloud if my voice is in the same register as a dog whistle.  Maybe dogs everywhere are scurrying to clean their rooms, turn the t.v. off and organize the office.

     It isn't just children and spouses who can tune us out though.  Whether at work, at home, or out with friends, at times we all feel that we just aren't being heard.  But wait...before you go for the megaphone...there are other ways that we can make ourselves (Read more...)