Friday, July 20, 2012
It is difficult enough to make a marriage good, and when it
is void of empathy, it’s really difficult.
So, what do you do? If you think
about it, what you want to do is get out of your shoes and get into your
partners shoes and try to imagine what they are feeling like. Rather than getting defensive and immediately
getting to that contest of who’s right, instead, say something like this, “That
must be difficult” or “I can appreciate why you think that way.” When you spend more time empathizing on the
front end you’re going to get much better results on the back end. Just simply spend more time empathizing
before you come up with your idea. You will have by far better results and a much happier marriage.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Listening is so essential in marriages, between supervisors and supervisees, and between customer service reps and the market. Very often surveys point to the fact that people really fail to listen. What we need to do is spend more time listening. The way you do it is you listen to what people are saying to you and then you play back what they said, particularly when it is important. So somebody says something and you say, “Let me see if I understand what you are saying, what you are saying to me is… this or that.” When you play back to the person what you thought they said, particularly in the beginning of important conversations you are much more likely to get on track and people will get a lot less defensive.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Sometimes people will make you feel guilty to try to get what they want. Somebody might say, “If you really cared about me you would be here this weekend.” Well, you ever notice that you feel guilty and you are likely to cave in and do their bidding? So how do you overcome that? What you do is divide up the message, after they say it. So, if they say, “If you really cared about me you would be here this weekend.” What you say is, “What are we talking about, how much I care about you or are we talking about the fact that you want me here this weekend? “ When you do it that way, the person is likely to get immobilized at which point you can actually solve the problem without feeling guilty. The key is to off-load the guilt to get to the real point so you can be less hostage to feeling so bad.
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