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		<title>Dealing With Coworkers Who Are Lousy Communicators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you do when you are working with someone who simply isn&#8217;t a strong communicator?&#8221; asks training specialist Shaun Belding in his Winning at Work e-newsletter  (top-notch reading for anyone in the workplace).
&#8220;It might be someone who speaks in one- or two-word sentences.   Perhaps it&#8217;s someone who only gives you half the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Mr Public Speaker! When Will You Get to the Point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When great communicators deliver a speech, how long do they speak?  Very often, not for long at all. In case you find that difficult to believe, Dave Yewman of Dash Consulting Inc made this brief slide deck to drive home the point.   See for yourself the precise duration of history&#8217;s greatest speeches &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hodu.com/blog1/get-to-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Charismatic Leaders Are Not Necessarily the Most Competent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago,  consultant Larry Liberty  wrote a book called  The Maturity Factor: Solving the Mystery of Great Leadership.  The book stresses that the emotional and psychological maturity of a leader is more important than where they were educated, who they know, or what prior experiences they have.  According to the author, 80% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hodu.com/blog1/charismatic-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Disagreements At Work Need Not Lead to Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week I read numerous email newsletters published by a variety of business consultants, trainers, life coaches and other professionals working with human capital. I subscribed to most after visiting their websites and being promised weekly or monthly mailings replete with the very latest tips and cutting-edge strategies relevant to the writer&#8217;s particular field of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hodu.com/blog1/disagreement-and-conflict/</link>
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		<title>How Body Language Can Trigger Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, we have written and published a wealth of material on our site and our blog on a very special  emotion that serves as a key facilitator in all effective interpersonal relationships &#8211; namely, empathy?  What  do you usually think of when you read the word in print or hear the concept mentioned [...]]]></description>
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