http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Kenrick+Cleveland Advice Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=230774&ca=Advice If you're anything like me, you're a very busy person. Not only am I busy with regular things--teaching, family, health maintenance--I'm also in the midst of a moving, requiring an added list of what needs to be done. It's hard to believe how much has to be done in a day and because this is on my mi... Advice Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=230780&ca=Advice I'm curious about something and I wonder if you wouldn't mind clearing it up. . . Just so that I am understanding you completely. . . Fantastic. That makes total sense. And so that I'm really getting where you're coming from . . . What do all these phrases have in common? Well, for one thing, they a... Advice Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=231095&ca=Advice There are certain cultural norms and rules of decorum people are expected to adhere to in society and in business contexts specifically. I am of the mind that rules are meant to be bent, if not broken entirely. In business, the rules of professional decorum tell us that we shouldn't get too personal... Advice Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=231107&ca=Advice I recently came across the following list written/compiled by David Heenan: Ten Keys to Life Fulfillment: 1. Listen to your heart 2. Take one step at a time 3. Deliver daily 4. Maintain a maverick mind-set 5. Focus, focus, focus 6. Never stop learning 7. Build a brain trust (network of knowledgeable... Advice Kenrick Cleveland Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=230407&ca=Advice Seems like some of my readers are paying attention and that's awesome. I wrote part one of this article a while back. It talks about eight common and avoidable pitfalls we have in language. In the article I wrote about 'but', 'if', 'try', and 'might' and how these words dilute the power of our langu... Business Kenrick Cleveland Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=230431&ca=Business "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." --Abraham H. Maslow Have you ever stopped to think about your high school history books and whose perspective the history was presented? There is no omnipotent, impartial scribe to record every thing that ever happened... Business Kenrick Cleveland Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=229012&ca=Business When I teach my students about the towards and away continuum, I get asked the following question a lot: Isn't an 'away' person just a really negative personality type? I want to start out by saying, no, not necessarily. I won't deny the fact that there are truly negative people out there, but a per... Advice Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=228660&ca=Advice My students often request that I listen to their speeches and presentations to comment on what I see as the strengths and weaknesses in their persuasion skills. Unfortunately, I haven't discovered a way to exist without sleep and I don't have enough hours in a day to do everything that I want to do... Self Help Kenrick Cleveland Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=228693&ca=Self+Help In the first article of this series, "Persuasion Continuums" I started to describe one of the slickest persuasion tools around. I'm going to take it a little further here. Here's a brief recap of the first article: A continuum works best when the client you are influencing is at one end or the other... Business Kenrick Cleveland Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=228350&ca=Business In previous articles I described an overview of the representational systems of communication: visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and the benefit of knowing what these systems are as they relate to rapport. In another article, I went into more detail about the visual aspect and here we are dealing wi...