Do You Talk Too Much????

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	Do You Talk Too Much????

davegrif

4-25-2007 1:26 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ffabfa9-a3fa-4984-be74-fccb1dc8d6e3/E7A6F6EE-6755-4BC6-9452-4FE7C7BF177E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work" href="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work" style="font-size: 11px;">biz.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work"><SPAN class="t">Do You Talk Too Much?</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work">Think of someone who's long-winded (we all know such people). Chances are you also think of him or her as boring and self-absorbed. But is it possible people think <I>you</I> are a long-winded
Benny Blowhard or Chatty Cathy? The more questions to which you answer yes, the more concerned you should be.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work">First, the problem. Do your pronouncements routinely 
exceed one minute? Do you wander off on tangents rather than staying on topic? Do your listeners often show signs of lack of interest, such as fidgeting, looking away, interrupting you or frequently saying "uh-huh" to push you to get on with it? Yes, some people are poor listeners by 
nature. But if you observe a lack of interest among more than a fourth of the people you converse with, the problem is more likely you.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biz.yahoo.com/kiplinger/070406/iptc_20070312124359_id.html?.v=1&.pf=career-work"><P><B>A rule of thumb.</B> If, in any conversation, you're speaking more than 60% of the time, you're talking too much. Fifty percent is better. Thirty to forty percent is usually best.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E7A6F6EE-6755-4BC6-9452-4FE7C7BF177E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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