10 Practical Uses For Psychology
I've written before about Psychology and its various uses such as how to spot a liar but the Psyblog takes it a step further and looks at "10 practical uses…
Psychology & Communication
7 Habits: Habit 6 – Synergise
Essentially having a synergistic relationship with someone is to use the previous 5 Habits Of Highly Effective People to form a bond with them, that way you are able to…
7 Habits: Habit 4 – Think Win/Win
Habit 4 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is all about achieving a mutually acceptable compromise with the person you're dealing with so you both feel that…
7 Habits: Habit 2 – Start with the end in mind
In Habit 2 we discover the importance of knowing what we want the outcomes of our interactions with others to be. There is no point investing time and emotional energy…
7 Habits: Habit 3 – Put first things first
Habit 3 looks at Covey's four quadrants of urgency. We may perceive things to be urgent but are they really? We can use some of the techniques in this post…
7 Habits: The Public Victory Phase
In the 7 Habits, the Public Victory Phase is were we take a look back at the first few habits that asked us to examine ourselves and then think about…
7 Habits : An Overview
Welcome to the first post in the 7 Habits of Of Highly Effective People series. In this introductory post we introduce you to the concepts of the 7 Habits and…
7 Habits: Habit 1 – Be Proactive
In Habit 1 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits we take a look at the importance of proactivity. We don's have to leave it to others to ask for help -…
Revisiting the MBTI
Every now and again I re-take The Myers-Briggs test to keep an track on how I'm doing personality-wise. When I first took the test back in 2006 I was classed…
Psychology Tuesday: Learn to Say “No”
Sometimes, even though we can be organised (or we like to think we are!) we can sometimes take too much on. This leads to a form of procrastination I like…
Body Language: 9 Ways To Spot A Liar
Why would you want to spot a liar? Surely you'd love to know whether the report Arnie promised you really was lost from his PC after it was hit by…
Psychology Tuesday: Hand Signals
A huge amount of communication is non-verbal. From hand gestures to eye movements, we all unconsciously take these messages in and adapt our attitudes to the speaker accordingly. This week,…