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Managers Qualities

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I recently attended the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineer's national conference in Washington DC. I had a great time seeing all of my friends, who like me, seem to be getting older. At the conference I remember talking to a younger person and I noticed that I kept repeating the same thing to him over and over again. The reason I was repeating myself was that he wasn't getting what I was trying to tell him. In exasperation I finally said to him "Listen, I hate to sound like a broken record but..." he looked at me with a puzzled look and said, "What's a broken record?"

I'm skilled at communication. I watch body language; I look for hidden meaning in the message and all of the stuff that communication experts suggest you do. Why then wasn't I effectively communicating? After several minutes of just looking at him, I realized that this person grew up listening to CD's and had no idea what a broken record sounded like o...

Posted by: Carmen hershman

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