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- Become A Brilliant Conversationalist: Using Probing Questions Guide
- Credibility: Knowing The Difference Between "Understanding From The Outside" and Understanding From The Inside
- Finding The Sweetspot Between Overly Positive and Overly Negative
- Communicating With Or Managing The Overly Positive Or Negative Employee
- Are YOU A Social Media Bore? Probably!
- Why Is There So Little Questioning Used In Social Media Conversations?
- When The People Who NEED The Feedback Are The Least Likely To "Hear" It
- Why I Don't Thank People For Leaving Comments On My Social Media Content
- Gallery: Graphic Meditations On Verbal Abuse and Verbal Violence
- When And How Praise Can Be Toxic
- It's Not What You Say. It's What You Do NOT Say That Makes a Huge Difference with Conflict and Communication
- Focus On Communication In The 2016 Presidential Campaign
- Improving Communication Via The "Less Is More" Principle
- NEW Instructional Video: Delivering Bad News And Minimizing Backlash
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What Are The Characteristics of Linear vs. Circular Communication?
Linear Communication Preference
Communication is conducted in a straight line, moving in a linear way toward the main point. "Getting to the point" is very important to a linear communicator, whether listening or stating a point explicitly. Not getting to the point quickly is seen as a time waster.
There is a low reliance on context and a strong reliance on words. (Cut to the chase, where the rubber meets the road!)
The Circular Communication Preference
Discussion is conducted in a circular manner, telling stories and developing a context around the main point, which is often unstated because the listener will get the point after I give them all the information. There is a high reliance on context. (Once you have the relevant information, you’ll know what I mean.)
Keep In Mind
Linear communicators can seem blunt, rude, aggressive, unfeeling and blind to the impact of their words on other people, but they may be quite considerate "inside", once things are pointed out.
Circular communicators often appear disorganized, slow witted, and unable to track the point of the discussion, at least to more direct speakers. None of those characterizations need be accurate.
If you are a linear speaker, you will probably find the circular conversationalist maddening, but here's a tip: Be quiet, listen, and let the "story" the person is telling to unfold in it's own time, not your own.
You will often find a richness there that you don't get from more linear styled communication.