The Seven Habits of Effective Communication

We are so deeply scripted in these responses that we don't even realize when we use them. Let's take a look at what well might be a typical communication between a father and his teen aged son. Look at the father's words in terms of the four different responses we have just described. Obviously he was well intended, but did he even begin to really understand? To many seek first to understand becomes the most exciting, the most immediately applicable, of all the seven habits.