Communication Series- 4.Good Advice

When you share your observations and give others advice, you almost always feel like you can surely help them contribute to solving their problems.

Step back and take a moment to think about how you feel when other people are constantly giving you their advice(especially unwanted advice).

How does it make you feel? Instead of playing good aunt or uncle and giving your " helpful tips" to everyone ("If I were you, I would ___"), try putting yourself in their situation and reflect on how you would feel when something like that happened to you.

Eventually, you can give advice if it's asked for. However just give enough advice and not too much, only an honest attempt to understand the person deeper and nothing more.

As often as possible, avoid playing the role of a wise sage or oracle and try to lead the conversation in a way to enable your audience to solve the problem themselves. 

Thank you for taking this journey with us, don't forget to stop and smell the coffee.