by Cora Ethos | Jul 14, 2026 | Communication
You can’t fix a communication habit you can’t see, and your own patterns are the hardest ones to spot. To discover your communication strengths and weaknesses, you need three inputs you rarely give yourself: honest feedback from people who watch you...
by Cora Ethos | Jul 14, 2026 | Communication
Most communication problems on a team don’t get solved by telling people to communicate better. They get solved by changing the system those people work inside: the meeting with no agenda, the decision with no owner, the status update scattered across six...
by Cora Ethos | Jul 14, 2026 | Communication
The same person can be crystal clear in a one-on-one and a disaster in a group email, because communication pitfalls are situational, not fixed traits. The trap lives in the context: what works face to face falls apart in writing, and what works in a meeting fails...
by Cora Ethos | Jul 14, 2026 | Communication
The HURIER model breaks listening into six active stages: Hearing, Understanding, Remembering, Interpreting, Evaluating, and Responding. Developed by communication researcher Judy Brownell, it treats listening not as one passive act but as a chain of skills, any of...
by Cora Ethos | Jul 14, 2026 | Communication
In sales, communication is the product before the product. Buyers rarely decide based on features; they decide based on whether they felt understood, whether the story made sense, and whether they trust the person across the table. The rep who listens better, frames...
by Cora Ethos | Jul 13, 2026 | Communication
Most communication problems at work aren’t personality flaws. They’re habits: a manager who buries the ask in paragraph four, a team lead who says “sounds good” when it doesn’t, an executive who confuses talking a lot with being...
