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Why Good Listening Is a Critical Skill for Founders and Entrepreneurs

By Aytekin Tank — 2019

As a leader, it’s essential that you ensure that all the voices on your team receive equal air time — especially the quieter ones.

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How to Stop Passive Aggression from Ruining Your Relationship

Learning to express anger in a healthy way will help couples resolve conflicts, instead of letting them simmer.

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Andrea Brandt
2017
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Stop Yelling! Here’s How to Use *Mindful* Communication for Conflict Resolution With Your Partner

There’s a gap between what you’re really thinking and what you’re saying. You’re distracted by all that’s going on inside and you’re uncertain about what to share and what’s better left unsaid.

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Barbara Larrivee
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Good Storytellers Get Better Health Care—But Childhood Trauma Confuses the Narrative

When describing their symptoms, medical history and health changes at a clinic or hospital, every patient is the storyteller of their own health. Good storytellers tend to get better health care, but a history of childhood trauma plays havoc with telling your own story.

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Robert Maunder, Jon Hunter
2021
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The way you approach a hard conversation either reinforces a pathway for exchange or erodes trust in the relationship. You can set yourself up for a more productive, less volatile exchange by being clear about what you are trying to accomplish by treading into challenging terrain.

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Anna Sale
2021
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Ezra Klein Interviews Anna Sale

A hard conversation is about trying to sort of understand more focus on descriptions and sharing experience but not wrapping it all up neatly at the end because when you try to do that, you’re sort of pushing through what actually is the hard thing

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Ezra Klein; Anna Sale
2021
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How to Make Your Small Talk Big

We’ve forgotten how to talk to people. . .Our entire social lives have become a middle school dance: unrealistic expectations in the lead-up, self-conscious regrets in the aftermath.

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Anna Sale
2021
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Trust Issues: Why Is It So Hard for Some People to Trust?

It’s become more and more difficult to remain vulnerable, trusting, and open to life in this era of uncertainty, global upheaval, divorce, and disrupted family life.

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Joyce Catlett
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Everyday Diplomacy

Your idea of a great Sunday is to rise with the sun for a long run. Your partner, however, has other ideas. His notion of a proper Sunday involves sleeping late and enjoying a leisurely brunch over the Sunday paper.

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Joseph Hart
2007
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According to Oprah, All Your Arguments Come Down to These 3 Questions

If the answers are no, there’s likely going to be a problem.

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Melanie Curtin
2018
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Collaborative Problem Solvers Are Made Not Born – Here’s What You Need to Know

Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually dealing with problems that require input from others.

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Stephen M. Fiore
2019
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