by Paul Quinn | Feb 11, 2025 | Asking - Relationships, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Handling Conflicts, Personal Development
Oh, the possibilities are horrible. And endless. Your attempt at humor backfires and you’re marked as an insensitive jerk. Someone you love catches you in a lie that hurts them and erodes their trust in you. You accidentally text “Just between us, I think Sam is...
by Paul Quinn | Feb 7, 2025 | Asking - Business, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Workplace Etiquette
When it comes to making requests, we’re most persuasive face to face. Even when asking something of someone we don’t know, we’re 34 times more likely to get a yes in person than by email (phone calls are the next most persuasive). Trouble is, in the worlds...
by Paul Quinn | Nov 22, 2024 | Asking - Consumer, Asking - Empowerment, Handling Conflicts, Human Behavior
This is a post about asking that begins, for the sake of analogy, with a seemingly unrelated topic: Crosswalks (bear with me!). Imagine you’re walking in a crosswalk. At the halfway point, you see a driver waiting for you to cross so they can turn. Even though you...
by Paul Quinn | Oct 31, 2024 | Asking - Empowerment, Personal Development
In a famous 1996 study at the University of Chicago, three randomly selected groups were tested on how many basketball free throws they could make. The researcher, Dr. Biasiotto, recorded the results and then instructed the first group to practice shooting free throws...
by Paul Quinn | Oct 29, 2024 | Asking - Empowerment, Human Behavior, Personal Development
What if you could direct your imagination to “put on” a new perspective aligned with the reality you wish to create? This is the first of two posts about using affirmations and visualizations, respectively, in effective ways. In this one, we’ll focus on...
