Communication Challenge Enthusiasts Gifts

'Have you noticed how hard this doctor's face is to read?'

"My email is down... talk to me."

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

Couples' therapy

She - Interpreter - He.

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

Teamwork

Ruddy bloggers!

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

"I'm fascinated by body language."

WHO checklist

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

The Love Psychologists

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'What makes you think no-one understands you?'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

"Go ask your mother ... and I'll tell you why she's wrong."

"We don't talk."

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

'He says he needs his own space.'

"I've never seen a resume that's entirely made up of emojis. Let me take a few moments to decode it."