Communication Master Gifts

'Why am I feeling like this..?'

"Darling, I realised that you didn't like your dinner by the third sheet."

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"

"National security adviser"

Create some buzz!

Couples' therapy

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

"And finally, I'd like to take any questions from the floor."

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

"Harold, you've changed."

"So, what you're telling me is: I have unusually high negatives for a third-year husband..."

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

Staff. Manager. So then you must say "I refuse to lift weights." Hey, that's not what I expected when I hired you to be a resistance training instructor!

Talk shows are great. Listen shows are even better.

WHO checklist

"Enough about the forest, why don't you show us more trees?"

"In response to your request for better communications, I'm going to increase my lengthy explanation by 50%."

Nothing to say! Wouldn't wanna hear about it anyway!

The Thinker. The Listener

"I'm bilingual. I can talk to parents and step parents."

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

"There! Now we're getting somewhere."

"I'm a great ... umm... like ... umm... like... umm ... communicator."

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

"Let me know when you get tired of berries. We'll work on your people skills."

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

'My market doesn't understand me.'

'She nitpicks all the time!'

There's a real disconnect going on here.

"Stop referring to you and me as 'we'!"

I'll put this in a way you'll understand: you need to transfer your feelings from savings to checking.

Don't use live interviews as rehearsals-practise and prepare.