Welcome! I made this channel to help professionals and emerging leaders increase their impact and lead their teams with excellence through better communication skills.
I've done workshops, presentations, and consulting for organizations for 20+ years. I'm a full-time tenured full Professor at a public college in New York. I publish original research and two books. I earned a Ph.D. in Communication (2003) from CU Boulder.
I'm the founder of a Communication Coach Academy (CCA) that equips emerging leaders: www.alexanderlyon.com/
With your help, I currently sponsor 10 children through Compassion International with proceeds from the channel.
THE JOURNEY
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Thank you very much Coach Lyon I am learning a lot from your series of videos You have been planting good seeds with your good deeds. Jim Sanchez Hospital On Wheels Philippines
Highly recommend Communication Coach Academy I am 2 years and my Communication skill has helped me to expand my business as a Coach to be understood easily and motivate my coachees. Thank you Mr Lyon
Thank you so much for this video tbh. I'm autistic, and I remember feeling really discouraged when I was younger because I would watch videos talking about how to tell if someone was lying, and I did all of that in regular conversation. I'm here now trying to learn communication skills to make up for my natural weaknesses in communication and your channel has been a Godsend.
Your video hits home for me! I've had my fair share of encounters with jargon-wielding managers too. Your tips on clarity and the signpost method are invaluable. Looking forward to more gems from you!
Today, I employed assertive communication because it was the deadline, yet the individual seemed overwhelmed. I attempted to communicate without singling anyone out, but this occurred before I watched a particular video. It's worth noting that without consciously employing communication skills and simply expressing myself candidly, I managed to capture their attention within 30 seconds. This illustrates why the commander need not worry about the tone of communication, from start to finish
I am sorry but empathy cannot be learnt in adulthood: we are either born with empathy (mirror neurons) or nurtured to be empathic (from empathic parents), improved empathy is pretended empathy.
Everybody knows somebody who seems to know a little bit about a very large number of subjects, but in addition, there are those who seem to have the gift of being able to “BS their way through“ just about anything… In other words, they can convince their audience that they know what they’re talking about, even if they really don’t. In my experience with high school UIL debate, A Socio political topic was chosen, and it was a mere toss of a coin as to which position you were expected to defend, with only seconds to prepare. I remember one exercise in which the topic was gun control, in which both my sparring partner and I Harvard strong pro second amendment right, and with both of us being country boys, these were lifelong positions. I unfortunately drew the task of having to defend a position advocating additional and stricter gun control, a position I was vehemently opposed to, but my task was my task, and having been exposed to this debate over time, at least was cognizant of the typical arguments presented by both sides, and was able to mount a formidable defense of the position, and having a significantly better command of the language, and a significantly larger working vocabulary, my “opponent” actually became upset, thinking I had changed my position, (or had been lying all along) and some time later he actually confronted me over my apparently wrongheaded liberal, yankee, city-boy attitude which he found quite unmanly and distasteful. It was all I could do to at least convince him that I did not deserve getting beat up, because I was literally told what position I was REQUIRED to defend, no matter how disingenuous I felt defending it. Apparently and my trauma notwithstanding - my words were sufficiently convincing that he had a really hard time believing that I wasn’t speaking my true mind. It didn’t help matters that I was voted by a panel of faculty to be the “winner“ of that particular debate round, a judgement that I was quite conflicted about. If the coin toss had gone the other way, I don’t know WHAT would’ve happened. That kid regarded me with suspicion from that time forward. That was in about 1976.
I recently paid $2000 to attend a 3 day course on executive speaking. This video was much more beneficial and informative than that course! Thanks for the excellent content.
Thank you for the video I will be doing a presentation at the school I graduated from last year but because I have autism I am not sure if I am giving it to a bunch of 12th graders (or 6th years as it’s called in my country) or am I doing it in the special needs unit of my school, because if I am doing it in front of a bunch of them I might get nervous for I didn’t do one in front of that many people before, now I have done presentations in my school before during my time there and did a reading at my grandfather’s funeral, but it would be a bit nerve racking since I’m going to be doing it in front of thousands but thanks for the video. 👍
--- SUMMARY --- 1. Listen to the other person letting them know that you are listening to them. ( Put your devices away. ) 2. Ask them questions on the topic they are talking about and add your own opinions onto it before asking the question[ To let them know that you are listening to them. ] 3. Let them completely finish talking to ask them. Dont intrupt them in the middle of conversation.( Find natural gaps in your conversation to give your reply. ) 4. Be open minded when having a conversation.[ Your prejudice on a person or the topic can affectyour listening skills. ] 5. Let them know that you are listening to them by saying that you understand what your talking about. < Is non verbal communication so that you don't interrupt them. > Of you didn't catch what they are saying then don't be afraid to ask them to repeat it again. It even gives them assurance that you are listening to them. AM I MISSING ANYTHING? PS: Thank you for listening to my babbling. 😅❤
This is incredibly helpful for me especially since I’m an introvert and all I am used to asking are Yes or No questions. And no one ever told me how to ask an open ended question fire
My mom was a huge fan of Dolly's from the Porter Wagoner days. I think when she came on the scene, the media was surprised at her ever-increasing popularity. Dolly has always handled everything like the cleverest and coolest gal ever! She is stacked, talented, and smart as a whip.
Gates rode the backs of others, not super intelligent, Zuckerberg wrote code not difficult at all 3 yr olds do it. They were the n the write place. King was horrible he watched a woman get raped and did nothing. There’s more on him.
I don't know how to thank you, sir. This is the first video I watch on your channel but I'll watch the other 4 videos in this series. And I wish to congratulate you soon, when you get 1M subscribers. Your new follower from Egypt.
Hi Alexander - great video! I used to teach academic skills and essay writing at various UK universities, and in 2013 SAGE Publications released the first edition of my book, Academic Writing and Grammar for Students. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a third edition, which just released! The book is a practical, accessible guide to writing essays using clear, appropriate academic language. At the end of each chapter, I recommend some other resources that my readers might find useful. For this latest edition, I wanted to include more multimedia and video content, so I thought you might be interested to know that I recommended this video at the end of my chapter on Critical Thinking, as I think it’s a really useful resource that my students at any level could learn a lot from. If you’re interested in taking a look at my book, it’s the third edition of Academic Writing and Grammar for Students by Alex Osmond. I run a Facebook page for the book and it’s available through Amazon and other booksellers. But I just wanted to let you know that I’ve highlighted this excellent video to my readers!
He seems pretty sincere to me. The part about it being a fog by the time his acceptance speech came out does add up to me. On a side note, the way his wife treats him was a likely catalyst for some that seemed innocent from Chris. Many guys have been there and know what that is like. Thankfully, that is way in my past.
