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How to Develop Assertive Communication Skill

Develop Communication SkillA good assertive communication skill basically means knowing well when to say ‘no’ when we have to. Assertive communication can strengthen your relationships, reducing stress from conflict and providing you with social support when facing difficult times. A polite but assertive ‘no’ to excessive requests from others will enable you to avoid overloading your schedule and promote balance in your life. Assertive communication can also help you handle difficult family, friends and co-workers more easily, reducing drama and stress.

Being assertive is not always easy, especially when we have to refuse requests from people that we love or know well. However, with some of these tips, you can practice to develop your assertive communication skill. Try them slowly but sure, and notice the difference in yourself.

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Destructive Attitudes in Communication

Destructive Attitudes CommunicationWhile good communication can improve a quality of relationship, poor communication can weaken bonds, create mistrust and even conflicts. Poor communication skill can be caused by negative or even destructive attitudes, which we often do without realizing them. Here are some examples of negative attitudes in communication, and see if you have done some of them.

1. Being defensive
Rather than facing the conflicts with an objective eye and willingness to understand the other’s point of views, defensive people deny any wrongdoing and work hard to avoid looking at the possibility that they could be contributing to a problem. Denying responsibility may seem to alleviate stress in the short run, but creates long-term problems when partners do not feel listened to.
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Tips to Increase Your Non-Verbal Communication Skill

Increase Communication SkillWhile verbal and written skills are clearly important in both professional and personal life, research has shown that nonverbal behaviors make up a large percentage of our daily interpersonal communication. The following tips for nonverbal communication can help you learn to read the nonverbal signals of other people and enhance your own ability to communicate effectively.

1. Look for any incongruent behaviors
If someone’s words do not match their nonverbal behaviors, you should pay careful attention. For example, someone might tell you they are happy while frowning and staring at the ground. Research has shown that when words fail to match up with nonverbal signals, people tend to ignore what has been said and focus instead on nonverbal expressions of moods, thoughts, and emotions.
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Personality Traits that Increase the Burnout Risk

Personality Increase BurnouThere are so many factors that can cause burnout, such as hostile working environments, negative managers or employees, stifling job structures, or lifestyles. However, these are just external factors. While some factors are unavoidable or at least hard to change, there are also internal factors that can make you more susceptible to burnout. While much of personality is inborn, your personal makeup and tendencies can contribute to your stress response, so you can adjust what you can. The following personal characteristics can affect your stress level and put you at an increased risk for burnout.

1. Perfectionist tendency
While dedicated workers strive to do their best to achieve optimal results and can be happy with a near-perfect job well-done, perfectionists beat themselves up if everything is not. Perfectionists sometimes will not even try to accomplish a task because they are too terrified of failure.
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Inappropriate Behaviors at Office Party

Behaviors Office PartyJoining an office party has more benefits than just a chance of socializing with workmates outside the cubicle setting. It gives you opportunities of getting new developments about office affairs, make yourself being noticed by managements, and even speeding up your career growth in the future. Of course, those can only happen if you conduct proper etiquettes in the party.

Being outside the cubicle setting does not mean that you can behave inappropriately.
At the very least, excess celebration and etiquette mistakes at the office party can become fodder for next day stories and eventually office legend for future parties. Inappropriate employee Read more!

Making Thank You Notes: What to Do and Don’t

Thank You NotesCommonly, we would like to express our gratitude after receiving someone’s kindness, and writing thank you notes is a good way to express that. However, for something as short as thank you notes, the writing process can be stressful, especially when it concerns formality.

In the end, it causes so much anxiety and the notes are never sent.
Usually, a heartfelt thank you note can be naturally written when your gratitude is sincere. However, for the sake of formality, here are some do’s and don’ts in writing thank you notes.

1. Thank you notes should be sent immediately.
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How to Make Good Impression at Work

Make Good ImpressionCreating good impression at work is not the same with sucking up your boss. Building good impression means that you conduct all the proper work etiquettes, so as to create a better work environment. Plus, good impression may lead to a promotion or make your boss trusting you for bigger responsibilities, since the true personality of such person is usually reflected on the impression he or she makes. Creating good impression is pretty much easy if we know the proper work etiquettes we must conduct.

Here are ways to build good impression at work.

1. Use proper work etiquettes
That means you must know when you have to answer a call or set your cellphone in silent mode, what words that are proper to use in an e-mail, and how to use the office facilities properly.

2. Know when to call in sick to work
Do not act tough when you know that your sickness is severe. A good boss or manager knows that when you are sick, not only you are less productive than usual, but you also make risk of spreading your
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Women’s Personality from the Shape of Their Lips

Personality Shape LipsA women’s sensuality can normally be marked from their lips, but besides of that, you can actually read someone’s character and personality through the shape of her lips.

Full Lips

Full-curved and sexy lips like Angelina Jolie’s and Scarlett Johansson’s can show a character of a brave and confident person. The beauty of this shape of lips is in the symmetrical form, as if they are showing that the person who owns them truly believe in herself and always feel beautiful.

Wide Lips
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Wide lips like Julia Roberts’ and Anne Hathaway’s shows that you are a very happy person, who has a lot of friends with many different interests. Not only that, you are also a perfectionist, very successful and talented, as well as independent in determining your own fate.
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Secrets to Celebrities’ Smiles

Secrets Celebrities’ SmilesOne of the most attractive features of the celebrities you see on the screen is their smile. Well, they do look charming when they smile, don’t they? But as they are also human, it doesn’t mean they have no burden in life. With all the routines and busy schedules they have, there must be a moment when our favorite celebrities don’t feel like smiling. However, as public figures, they are obliged to smile all the time in front of public, even when they don’t feel like doing so. There are a few tips you can apply everyday to keep you smiling just like the celebrities do.

Morning time

Morning is the beginning of a hectic day where you must prepare yourself to meet clients, colleagues, and other people for different purposes. To avoid such a rushing preparation in the morning, prepare your outfit the night before, including the footwear you are going to wear. Do the mix and match according to the color, style, and need for the following day. Read more!

How Can a Guy See ‘The Real You’?

The Real YouWhen a guy sees a girl for the first time, there are several ways for them to realize your real personality. So even though you have been very careful to bring out a good image for him, he will still know your real nature.

Your Friends

You could successfully fool any guy with your sexy look, charming smile, and clever conversation. However, no matter how good you are in disguising, you will never succeed in doing that when you are surrounded by your friends. The guys will see your true color when you are hanging out with your friends. According to Nata, he could realize a girl’s real nature in 10 minutes. He admitted seeing a girl who was once look very sweet and elegant, but when the girl invited him to hang out with her best-mates, he realized that the girl was actually a drama queen. The 26 year old guy later said that it was a major turn off. Read more!