Forums: Discussions for entrepreneurs and small business.

Been doing some studying on entrepreneurship and some thinking as well.

One of the success factors for entrepreneurs are that they are good with other people at communicating etc.

I need to up my communication skills.

Question: How do I practice this.

The answer is probably something like "just go do it...".

just go do it

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There`s a ton of self-help CDs and classes out there for effective communication and the whole nine yards.

Go look at Amazon.

How would you define "communication?"

Well I was working with the word "communication" as it relates to "schmoozing". 

:-) Okay....and what`s "schmoozing?"

Yea, I have an interpretation. But what exactly is communication? Isn`t it the transfer of information?

I believe that when people talk about communication or schmoozing in this context, they`re assigning a *value* level the information being transferred.

So the question isn`t how to improve the transfer of information. It becomes an issue of assigning value to the information, then determining how to transfer that value as well as the content.

How many times does a woman complain that she went on a date and the guy was boring? All he talked about was himself. Fine, but he may have been eloquent in that communication while failing to understand that the listener assigned no value to the content.

Is this a communication "skill" issue, or rather a better way to evaluate the content of what we`re trying to communicate? Y`know?