Christine Burgmer | Blog

Forget some of those writing rules you learned a long time ago. Here are the rules you are allowed to break.

Yin and yang or a conversation about balance. Loren has a great tip here.  Balance your talking/sending and listening/receiving and your conversations will improve. Go on, give it a try!

Let’s try and avoid using jargon and learn to use plain English so that our messages are clear.

Learn how to deliver a compliment …

1. You look like you’ve lost weight.
2. You have a nice smile.
3. You smell nice.
4. Nice hair.
5. That dress really suits you.
6. That colour really suits you.
7. Love what you’re wearing.
8. Your eyes are pretty.
9. You look slim.
10. You look gorgeous.

Need help in learning how to keep a conversation going? Then watch this video clip:

Read these tips before you do your Christmas shopping – and then go out and enjoy yourself.

Watch this video and learn how to make introductions in a business setting … There’s only one thing I wouldn’t do and that’s say ‘I’m very well thank you’ after someone has said ‘How do you do’.  My reply?  ‘How do you do’.  Perhaps that’s different in Australia?  I wonder …