Communication Skills

Life Mastery: Communication & Relationships

If Life Had an Instruction Book, This Would be It

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50
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
50
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
4.3
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About the Life Mastery: Communication & Relationships Course

The Life Mastery course series covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high-school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life.

If life had an instruction book... this would be it.

In this course on communication and relationships,

  • Learn How to Make a Strong and Lasting Impression
  • Learn Valuable Conversation Skills
  • Learn the Secrets to Being Likable
  • Learn to Avoid the Most Common Grammar Mistakes
  • Learn Very Useful Persuasion Skills
  • Learn How To Be Diplomatic
  • Learn How To Be Assertive (while still being likeable!)
  • Learn Important Vocabulary
  • Learn How To Learn from Others
  • Become Really Good at Argumentation
  • Learn the Foundations of Public Speaking

Learn About Mastering Life

This course is a result of the continued research that suggest adults in the United States today are woefully unprepared for today's social and professional environment. People struggle with effective communication, relationships, weight and health issues, depression, life purpose, achievement, discerning fact from fiction, selling ideas to others, earning enough to live comfortably, finding jobs, and overall peace of mind. These are problems that get in the way of living a happy and fulfilling life when one's energy is spent on just trying to get by. This course addresses each of those problems, and many more, with the goal of helping you avoid those problems while focusing on what energizes you most.

By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live, and living it well!

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Course Introduction

1 lesson

Lesson 1: Welcome!

1 min Preview
Welcome to my Life Mastery course! This course has been several years in the making and I am continuing work on it with the anticipated completion by Fall of 2020. Since age ten, I have been fascinate…

Making a Strong and Lasting Impression

8 lessons

Lesson 2: The First Impression

8 min Preview
Research continues to show that making a good first impression is important because a bad first impression can be extremely difficult to correct. There are many ways to make a good first impression th…

Lesson 3: Bo's Thoughts on First Impressions

3 min

Lesson 4: Articulation

5 min
Imagine being the human resources director for a large firm. You are reviewing applications and seeking candidates to fill a top-level position. After searching through hundreds of resumes, you come a…

Lesson 5: Bo's Thoughts on Articulation

5 min

Lesson 6: Little Courtesies

5 min
Courtesies are polite behaviors, gestures, or remarks. While entire books have been written on manners, this lesson focuses on a few select behaviors that apply to both professional and personal situa…

Lesson 7: Bo's Thoughts on Little Courtesies

2 min

Lesson 8: Making a Lasting Impression

5 min
An impression is an effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience. However, like a footprint in the sand at a beach, impressions eventually fade away; a lasting impression is one t…

Lesson 9: Bo's Thoughts on Making a Lasting Impression

4 min

Conversation Skills

8 lessons

Lesson 10: Small Talk

5 min Preview
Small talk is polite conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters, especially as engaged in on social occasions. As much as people despise small talk, it is a necessary social lubricant t…

Lesson 11: Bo's Thoughts on Small Talk

3 min

Lesson 12: Reading Body Language

5 min
It is said that over 90% of communication is more than just the words we use, and 60% of our communication is nonverbal, or body language. It is also believed that nonverbal signs have about five time…

Lesson 13: Bo's Thoughts on Reading Body Language

3 min

Lesson 14: Meeting People

7 min
Imagine that you work for XYZ Corporation, a large company that manufactures widgets. The company sends you and a few of your coworkers to an international widget convention where there will be thousa…

Lesson 15: Bo's Thoughts on Meeting People

3 min

Lesson 16: Active Listening

8 min
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, was known as one of the greatest active listeners of all time. One of his greatest contributions to the field of mental health was his discovery …

Lesson 17: Bo's Thoughts on Active Listening

2 min

Being Likable

9 lessons

Lesson 18: Express Sincere Interest in Others

4 min Preview

Lesson 19: Avoiding Criticizing and Complaining

6 min

Lesson 20: Empathy

6 min

Lesson 21: Remembering and Using People’s Names

7 min
It has been said that a person’s name is the most important word in the world to that person. Using a person’s name in conversation is one of the best ways to build rapport. Sounds good, but if you ar…

Lesson 22: Being Flexible

5 min

Lesson 23: Building Rapport

6 min

Lesson 24: Smiling

4 min

Lesson 25: The Art of Praise and Compliment

4 min

Lesson 26: Avoiding “One-Upping”

4 min

Grammar

2 lessons

Lesson 27: The Importance of a Good Grammar

3 min

Lesson 28: 50 Common Grammar Mistakes and How To Avoid Them Persuasion Skills

23 min

Persuasion Skills

4 lessons

Lesson 29: Winning Others To Your Way of Thinking

5 min

Lesson 30: Six Words To Successful Communication

4 min

Lesson 31: Analogies, Similes, and Anecdotes

4 min

Lesson 32: Using Questions Effectively

5 min

Being Diplomatic

3 lessons

Lesson 33: Three Questions to Diplomacy

3 min

Lesson 34: The Word “But”

4 min

Lesson 35: Never Be Wrong Again

5 min

Assertiveness

3 lessons

Lesson 36: Control the Conversational Climate

3 min

Lesson 37: Three Rejections = Success

4 min

Lesson 38: Learning How to Say NO

4 min

Vocabulary

2 lessons

Lesson 39: The Importance of a Good Vocabulary

5 min

Lesson 40: A Brief List of Vocabulary Words Every Adult Should Know

12 min

Learning from Others

2 lessons

Lesson 41: Accepting Criticism

6 min

Lesson 42: Apologizing

6 min

Argumentation

5 lessons

Lesson 43: Avoiding Arguments

5 min

Lesson 44: Bo's Thoughts on Avoiding Arguments

2 min

Lesson 45: The Socratic Method

6 min
Content Warning: The start of this lesson contains some adult material.

Lesson 46: Dealing with Difficult People

7 min

Lesson 47: Hostile E-mails

8 min

Public Speaking

2 lessons

Lesson 48: Public Speaking Primer

8 min

Lesson 49: Bad Public Speaking: A Demonstration

3 min
No, I am not a professional actor, but thanks for thinking I am.

Public Speaking ~

1 lesson

Lesson 50: Lesson 50

2 min
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