Be bold and opinionated Rapport Archive Professional Development Be bold and opinionated Rapport Issue 13 Publication Date September 28th 2008 Authors Mindy Gibbins-Klein In this day and age of political correctness, you would be forgiven for thinking that the most important objective of communication is to tell people what they want to hear in the way they want to hear it without offending anyone. The issue I have with the growing trend of careful communication is that it is stifling the passion and the essence right out of the message. Too many people are now worried about the reaction of others to their ideas, or worse offending others by saying the wrong A shining light in the thing in the wrong way. This puts the darkness is the blog. brakes on exciting, lively debate and This is a place where kills the spirit... Professional Development To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it