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Come on up a little bit later and I follow all kinds of social media outlets involved with work, career trends, news, anything around work trends, career trends, challenges, hacks, the whole nine yards.

And I saw something from LinkedIn that their CEO Jeff Weiner was on CNBC's Squawk box.

And he was sharing some research that LinkedIn had done about job skills in the US. Now there was a lot in the media hit, if you will, that he did on air.

But in the article about this, it actually jumped off the page to me because Weiner said that the number one skill gap that they saw in their survey in the United States was communication skills.

And he basically went on the air and said, I'm surprised by this.

And I'm reading this and I'm going, this is actually not surprising to me.

That the number one skill gap in the American workforce has nothing to do with technology, even though that's probably high up the list as technology continues to advance. There's always going to be a gap.

But the number one skill gap communication. And he was legitimately surprised.

And again, I'm not surprised by this. Why? Well, because if you think about it, I don't care what role you're in, what industry you're in, what company you work for.

We're all in a form of communication, verbal and nonverbal all the time. All the time. You could be sitting in a meeting where you never utter a word and you are communicating.

You're not verbal is communicating. You could be you could be communicating engagement.

You could be communicating boredom. You could be communicating frustration. You could be communicating apathy anger. You see where I'm going.

So anytime you are in a meeting or some type of group, it could be just four people standing around in the break room.

You're communicating nonverbaly or verbally.

And I think that this really is a huge problem. I think communication skills verbal and nonverbal are the greatest opportunity or the greatest threat to our impressions that we give off.

Not just first impressions, but a continual impression. I think they're so so important.

So I want to give you a construct that I have played with for a long time in my public communication and in my personal communication.

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