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Ed Young C3 Conference said that you have heard it, so have I.  One party heard this.  Another party heard that.  He said.  She said.  They said.  No one knows for sure.  It is like the guy I talked to last week.  This young man is in his early 40s and he has about 270 people working for him.  I asked him one question.  What is one of the biggest challenges you face?  He said, “Ed, that’s a no brainer.  Communication.  I have a hard time communicating with the different personalities that come my way.  But I have learned something.  If I am dealing with a detailed person, I try to talk in a detail fashion, a creative person; I will use word pictures and so on.”  A brilliant guy, a true leader, a great businessman who is dealing in and struggling with communication.

According to Ed Young said earlier in this series we talked about communicating difficult things to difficult people.  Do you remember that?  We all face those irregular people, those jerks and it is tough to say those difficult things to those difficult people.  Well, today we are going to talk about communication in a great way, a positive way, an affirming way.  We are going to learn how to compliment, how to say words of affirmation that will energize and help those we rub shoulders with every single day.  Today we are talking about the positive aspects of communication.

Let me stop right here and ask you a quick question.  I want you to think about three or four of the closest colleagues, co-workers, family members that you know right now.

C3 Global -Let’s say that you have photographs of all these people you are so close to.  What if you walked up to our media department and handed them the photographs and they scanned them onto the side screens like they scanned the photograph of the dogs and me.