Last week week, Gallup reported that U.S. job creation held steady at an eight-year high in June. The Job Creation index score remains at its high of +33. The score represents 44% of employees who say that their employer is hiring employees and expanding the size of its workforce. More good news—Gallup also reported that…
Category: Communication Skills
5 Reasons Millennials Aren’t Answering Your Phone Call
Texting has overtaken calling as the most popular mobile function across all generations, with Millennial women using SMS three times more often than calling, according to the mobile research agency RealityMine. Phone calls have been second fiddle to texting since 2007, when Americans sent and received more text messages than phone calls, thanks largely to…
How to Align Your Body Language for Success
Did you know that your body language can help or hurt your level of success? Surprisingly, your voice inflection, facial expressions and body language comprise up to 90% of your message. Body language or nonverbal communication is extremely important in business given that humans produce over1: 700,000 signs 5,000 distinct hand gestures 250,000 facial expressions…
Email Etiquette—Increase Open Rates and Protect Your Reputation
According to a recent HubSpot blog post —the content of your email can positively or negatively impact your reputation. Consider this—if 93% of all daily communication is nonverbal according to Dr. Albert Mehrabian, author of Silent Messages, what does your email style really say about you? Meaning, when communicating face-to-face, your language only comprises 7% of the…