Relational Skills

  • Good people are out there

Responses to “I Need Help”

Our You Were Made for This podcast listeners have suggested some very good ideas for relationship topics to be examined in future episodes. They are in response to my May 17th blog post where I asked for help in developing content for the upcoming podcast season. As you probably know,

Responses to “I Need Help”2023-06-08T09:32:34-05:00
  • Find joy in difficult times

Learning From Our Losses

A quote I heard this past week took me back to the time when our daughter was in college and the summer she toured with a Christian singing group, The Continentals.  Jennifer was the pianist for the group that traveled the eastern part of the US and several countries overseas.

Learning From Our Losses2023-05-15T11:46:58-05:00
  • Relational intelligence is learned by observing

Relational Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial Kind

We’re hearing more and more about artificial intelligence these days, but I don’t hear anyone talking about relational intelligence. I wish we did. Few people are born with it, yet it is something we can learn by carefully observing others who have it. I saw a great example of recent

Relational Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial Kind2023-04-18T15:19:30-05:00
  • We Don't Know What We Don't Know

199: How to Help a Friend

Today’s episode is about how to help a friend using a model of deepening relationships I’ve talked about before. The ORA principle. You remember it, don’t you? O – Observe. R – Reflect. A -Act. ORA. I saw this model of relating on several different levels from the

199: How to Help a Friend2023-03-17T09:13:06-05:00
  • We Don't Know What We Don't Know

197: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

I’ve said before in past episodes how much I value feedback from people like you. In today’s show, for example, I share a listener reaction to a show from awhile back. It illustrates the concept that when it comes to relationships, sometimes we don’t know what we don’t

197: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know2023-02-02T19:30:03-06:00
  • We don't always have to be right

194: Martin Luther King – The Silence of Our Friends

Here in the US, the third Monday of January is a national holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., the civil rights leader. I recently came across one of his quotes where he said “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but

194: Martin Luther King – The Silence of Our Friends2023-01-11T16:39:32-06:00
Go to Top