2. The Connection Between Communications and Success

“Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture, and movement represent your feelings.”

—Patricia Fripp

The Connection Between Communications and Success in Mentoring, Career Counseling, and Coaching

There are two factors for which there are mountains of empirical evidence that overwhelmingly account for the success of individuals in any field. Those two factors are the verbal and networking skills of the successful people.

Common sense and simple observation can be your laboratory. Just look at most of the people you know or people you have worked for. Furthermore, look at the people who ran or owned the organizations and firms for which you, or people you know, have worked. Think about ...

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