GRiZ Quotes

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

I love collaborating with people.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

I love working closely with people.