September 23rd, 2020
Isn’t Active Listening Just Another Way to Manipulate People?
First, let’s define Active Listening. Active Listening is a special way of feeding back your understanding of what the other […]
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Isn’t Active Listening Just Another Way to Manipulate People?
August 6th, 2020
“But I Was Just Trying To Help…”
Throughout our lives, we have learned a variety of ways to help other people when they have strong feelings, thoughts […]
June 10th, 2020
Why Don’t More Dads Come to Parent Effectiveness Training Classes?
Oftentimes in P.E.T. classes the majority of the participants are mothers, and this is common around the world. However, Gordon […]
May 13th, 2020
How Active Listening Helped Me Get “Unstuck”
I am an anxious person by nature, a germaphobe stuck in a consistent state of nervousness. In late February, as […]
March 18th, 2020
Using Better Communication Skills in Times of Crisis
Leader Effectiveness Training, Parent Effectiveness Training, and Teacher Effectiveness Training are specific applications of a universal ap
March 4th, 2020
So How Are Your L.E.T. Skills Coming Along?
So hopefully you’ve been working hard to understand and apply many of the L.E.T. concepts, principles and skills. There are […]
December 11th, 2019
A Perfect Recipe (with Zero Calories!) for Lasting Change
As we wrap up the 2010s and look forward to a new decade, one thing is becoming increasingly clear at […]
December 11th, 2019
Practicing What I Preach: P.E.T. Interview with Lance Johnson, father of two and employee of Gordon Training International
This, our last parenting blog for 2019, is quite simply, awesome. Lance has been working at GTI since 2011. An […]
November 7th, 2019
“Yes, I want to die.”
“Yes, I want to die.” These were the words of a seventeen-year-old to his mother. What would you, as a […]
May 9th, 2018
Leadership Quotes to Inspire and Educate from Dr. Thomas Gordon
(excerpted from his L.E.T. book) Quotes are grouped by category to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. […]