You pull up in front of a school and the sign out front advertises an upcoming event as follows: Leteracy Night Dec 8th at 5:00 Would you question their tea...

Miscommunication is the failure to communicate adequately. It occurs in a multitude of ways, including communication that is confusing, unclear, uses words o...

Meet Miss Perception, also known as “did I hear or read that correctly?” Miss Perception is another contestant in my “Mis-Communication” Competition. You can...

Who is Mr. E and why shouldn’t I be him? Good question. He is the guest contestant in the “Miss Communication” pageant. In this pageant, 10 “contestants” vie...

Communicating effectively is a challenge. As described in last week’s blog – miscommunication is rampant – we misunderstand, misinterpret, misspell, misprono...

Have you ever been misunderstood? Or misinterpreted? Have you ever relayed a message with a mistake or a misprint? Have you ever mispronounced or misspelled ...

Meet Miss Aligned, also known as “not speaking the same language, even when it is all English.” She is another contestant in the Mis(s) Communication Competi...

Have your messages ever been misunderstood or misinterpreted? Have you ever received a text or an email and you weren’t quite sure how to take it? What cause...

Where are you, Sherlock Holmes? I would like to enlist your help in solving the mystery of the unsupported data. It appears that the internet perpetuates the...

This week at my local Toastmasters meeting I stepped way outside my comfort zone… I gave my first ever humorous speech. I shared the topic in last week’s blo...

Let’s meet 10 of them: Starting with Miss Understanding, when what you said and what I thought you said are NOT the same. Much like the classic Abbott and Co...

Successful communication creates a sharing of ideas and feelings between the communicator and the audience. It results in an audience that attends to, engage...