What You Hear, and gave attendees a chance to hear how men and women communicate differently, how people communicate differently in general, and how to improve communication skills. Mulle said the misunderstanding between the sexes began with Adam and Eve. Thus, according to Mulle, began the centuries of struggle of trying to close the gender gap that mysterious distance between what we think is going on in the mind of the opposite sex and what is really happening. Mulle said men think compartmentally, organizing their perceptual worlds by separating things out, while women think globally, organizing their perceptual worlds by connecting things up. He said that when women speak, they tend to speak narratively, with a lot of detail, while men speak in phrases short, clipped, reporting statements.
Men tend to use conversation to report facts.
The point of a woman s story usually comes at the end, but with men, the bottom line usually comes at the beginning. Men and women have trouble reaching accord in decision making because they focus on different ways to solve a problem, he said. Men value the decision itself, while women tend to value the process of getting to the decision. According to Mulle, the problem can be addressed. Respect is important, he said.