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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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Common Warning Signs of Suicide

Warning Signs SuicideOne of the most famous suicide myths is that someone who has committed suicide was surely psychotic or had delusional beliefs about reality. The truth is, most of suicidal people suffer from the recognized mental illness of depression; but many depressed people adequately manage their daily affairs. A person who looks normal could suddenly and ‘inexplicably’ commit suicide, even if everyone around him or her said that “he looked just fine.”

Actually, suicidal people almost leave subtle signs days, weeks, or even months before the actual suicide occurs. If we can read these signs, it will be easier to give those people the help and support that they actually need.

These are some common warning signs of suicide:

1. Increased level of depression
In the young depression may be masked by hyperactivity or acting out behavior. In the elderly it may be incorrectly attributed to the Read more!

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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Type A Personality and Stress: Are You The One?

TypeA Personality StressThe terms of Type A and Type B Personality have become household terms; especially if we talk about stress. While Type B people are described as calmer and less-temperamental, Type A people are completely the opposite. Basically, many people know that Type A character has something to do with being competitive and work-obsessed, but it is not always understood exactly what traits constitute Type A behavior, or exactly how these traits impact health and wellbeing.

The key characteristics of Type A personality include:

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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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First Look on Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality DiWhen someone in your groups tends to grab all the attention, often poses arrogantly in a conversation or gathering, and protests loudly if he or she is ignored, we call him or her a narcissistic person. Actually, the term “narcissistic” can go more than that. In psychology, there is a term called narcissistic personality disorder. Unlike your attention-grabbing fellow, this disorder is marked with excessive self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Furthermore, these symptoms bring significant negative impacts to the person’s social and career relationships.

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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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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!

Your Favorite Color = You

Favorite ColorColors would give pretty much influence in our mood or feeling. Bright colors could cheer us up, while the dark ones would bring a sense of gloomy and sometimes boredom.
Carl Jung, a well-known psychologist used to say: “Individuals response to color is too complex to allow a simple mode of interpretation. But, I believe there is a relationship between color and personality.”

So what your favorite color tells about you? Perhaps this article will help you find out about it.

BLACK
Black reflects power and authority. It traces strictness and hardness in compromising. Girls who favor black are mostly dominant person, like arranging and managing, and always demand for respect, stubborn, and high prided.
Beneath those negative traits, their positive point is: they are not cheap ones. They are an independent character, have firm consistency, and usually smart.

WHITE
White usually symbolizes something pure and clean. But in daily life white could represent a piece of canvas that reflects other colors, from the bright to the dark ones.
Girls who prefer white are normally innocent. They are soft-hearted and unquestionably sincere. The lack of girls who love the color white is that they intend to be sensitive, easily hurt and difficult to cure. They are vengeful and quite indecisive.

RED
This color is closely related to emotions. Girls who like the color red are usually friendly, cheerful, lovely, courageous and even tended to be reckless. Read more!