Posted on: 07 December, 2001
Author: Robert Poulton
Have you ever felt like WHAT you were trying to say,for some unknown reason wasnt coming out ... If I told them once, Ive told them a ... but, they just dont get it. Miscommu Have you ever felt like WHAT you were trying to say,for some unknown reason wasnt coming out right?...or, If I told them once, Ive told them a thousandtimes!... but, they just dont get it. Miscommunications or unclear communications costcompanies both time and money every day.Communication either enables or blocks the achievementof our personal and business objectives. So, how do you communicate to achieve your businessobjectives 25-50% faster?... Go to its source! Communications Control Central...Picture your self walking into the control room of alarge supper-computer that processes all of thefinancial transactions for about 50,000,000± creditcard purchases-transactions per day. Oh, by the way,the super-computer is connected to tens of thousandsof other small computers each communicating with thebrain.What if you changed only one character, in one line ofcode, in the program that processes thosetransactions? The system stops communicating clearlyand you end up with a mess like Portland, Oregonswater department billing system that created a$9,800,000 loss and a big pain in the keyster for allof the customers who didn't get a bill for a year.Just like one character in a line of code... Oneword... can change the course of history, yours, yourcompany's and even the world's.Lets go on a journey back-in-time...Back to before you were born, back when -one word- setthe course for your birth and possibly even theenvironment you were to grow-up in. Love, one word, one message, two different meanings inthe heat of passion. The first meaning in its simplest form is -caring,commitment, support- as it relates to two people and along-term relationship. The second meaning, -LUST - -come on baby, light my fire, I love ya- usually endsin a parting of the ways just before breakfast. Thelatter creates a lot of single parent families. Whosusually left holding the bag?... you and your mom.How do you think these two, very different meaningsimpact your birth and life as you grow up? They createtwo very different environments, in which you grow-uplearning two different ways of life and the meaning ofthe single word - love. So, if every communication has a message and everymessage has a meaning, what do I, as the sender of themessage, need to do... to save time, avoidmisunderstanding and achieve my objectives faster, ata lower cost? Start by understanding where it begins... thefoundation of your communications.Like a brick building, the foundation of ourcommunication was built one Agreement at a timeduring our personal domestication. We accepted theseagreements from others and/or ones that we made withourselves. Three examples of these agreements; a Inever do well on tests, b I cant speak to largegroups of people, or c I will be impeccable with myword, stating exactly what I mean or want. Your -Agreements- set the parameters or limits of ourperspective, the position from which you view,observe, experience and interact with your environmentand life.Your perspective in turn sets the boundaries for ourperceptions, what we know based on our perspective.Think about this... because you will always rememberit when you need it and you need it everyday. Your AGREEMENTS set your PERSPECTIVE, your perspectivelimits your PERCEPTIONS and your perceptions limityour BELIEFS. Oops, I all most for got... ASSUMPTIONS.Assumptions are the windows to the unknown, fuzzy atbest, mostly outdated and the basis for most of ourbeliefs.Guess what drives your life and your business?...Whats this have to do with the MESSAGE and itsMEANING?... How and what you communicate?...Your agreements, perspective, perceptions and beliefsare different than the person or group of people youare communicating with.The key to achieving your objectives 25-50% faster isvalidating that the message sent and its meaning isidentical to the message and meaning received.If you have limiting-agreements instead of empoweringagreements, how will you be able to clearlycommunicate your true message and its meaning?Remember, not all of your agreements were originallyyours, you accepted them from others as they werepresented to you when you were growing up. I don'tknow about you, but I dont want to give control of mylife over to someone else. Words are the catalyst for action and actions deliveroutcomes... How important is communication and itsfoundation to you?Think about it... and we will continue thisconversation another day... Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com