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Barbara Small
Member since 08th September 2008
Occupation: Author, Facilitator and Coach Barbara Small, M.A. is a coach, facilitator and author whose keynote sessions, workshops and books center around the practical skills of communication, assertiveness, group facilitation and counselling, as well as concrete tips on how to improve your self-esteem and change your negative self-talk into positive and supportive thoughts. Barb focuses on skills that are practical and immediately usable. Check out her two books: "What About Me, What Do I Want? Becoming Assertive" and "Blah, blah, blah... Changing Your Negative Self-talk". Visit http://www.barbsmallcoaching.com/ for more details.
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01st December 2008
“I know you think you understand what I said. But I don’t think you understand that what I said is not what I meant.”
Effective communication is key to getting our messages across to others both at work and in our personal relationships. I...
01st December 2008
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Active listening is the ability to capture and understand the messages that others are communicating whether these messages are transmitted verbally or nonverbally, clearly or vaguely. It is...
01st December 2008
1. Get adequate rest. Adequate sleep is essential for physical and mental health. When working on long projects or with heavy concentration take short breaks every hour or two.
2. Use deep and slow breathing. One easy way to release tension is to tak...
10th October 2008
When you start to replace your negative thoughts with positive ones, you may not initially believe these new thoughts. They may feel fake. Clients have told me that thinking these new thoughts or positive affirmations cause them to feel embarrassed, uncom...
06th October 2008
1. Think before you speak. The first step is to be clear within yourself as to what you want to say.
2. Communicate your needs without excuses or disclaimers at the beginning, such as “well, this may not really be important” or “I may be making a...
06th October 2008
Remember that your thoughts create your destiny. Recognize your own power to create your life.
Stop worrying. Often by worrying we feel like we are “doing” something about a problem when we aren’t. When we worry we are in t...
18th September 2008
Our thoughts create our reality. They influence our feelings and perceptions about what's going on in our lives. They determine what we notice in the world around us and what we attract into our lives.
By expecting the negative, we filter our expe...
18th September 2008
We have little control over the events that happen around us and over other people’s actions. What we do have control over is our response to these events. Just as we can talk ourselves into being angry, we can talk ourselves down from being angry. We c...
15th September 2008
People’s behavior can be divided into four categories -- assertive, passive, aggressive and passive-aggressive. Living an assertive life means taking an active and responsible approach to others and to your life. Individuals who interact passi...
09th September 2008
1. Begin being assertive in low risk situations first. For some people it is easier to try being assertive with a family member. For others it is easier with the clerk at the grocery store.
2. Practice makes perfect. Don’t expect immediate success in...
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