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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How can you communicate effectively and create meaningful interactions in an increasingly digital world' By teaching. In Make Yourself Clear, educational experts and entrepreneurs Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine explain the many parallels between teaching and business and offer companies, both large and small, concrete advice for building the teaching capacity of their salespeople, leaders, service professionals, and trainers. The rise of...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language
English
Description
"In today's workplace, conversations about diversity are vital but filled with potential pitfalls-award-winning consultant Mary-Frances Winters provides specific, tactical, and compassionate approaches for dialoguing across difference."--
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Listening is critical in today's organizations. As recent examples in the #MeToo era and numerous organizational failures and scandals illustrate, the consequences of poor listening in organizations can be significant, and in some cases, catastrophic. Listening is commonly described in terms of ethics, overlooking its strategic value. The book guides leaders and decision-makers to question the listening habits, practices, and infrastructure within...
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Publisher
AMACOM
Language
English
Description
This book explains strategies and techniques for effective communication and presentations in a time of decreased attention spans. Whether pitching a project, giving a speech, selling a product, or writing emails, readers will learn how to design a strong message and say it in second; make routine information come alive; and convey confidence and command attention.
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Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two coaches to Fortune 500 companies and social enterprises show how to use the social-psychology of human connection and curiosity to drive meaningful workplace communication and collaboration In today's increasingly polarized world, we're struggling to fully understand and respect one other. As a result, we're losing sight of the importance of building and maintaining professional relationships; even forgetting to be curious and listen to each...
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English
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"From Erica Dhawan, co-author of Get Big Things Done, the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of 'oops sorry no you go' and 'can you hear me?!' Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other?...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker safety. The Playbook is a caustic handbook for tobacco, oil,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The founder of The Fort�e Institute shares his time-tested assessment and proven strategies to help you build your communication strengths and develop Communication Intelligence (CQ) Now more than ever, Communication Intelligence is essential for workers at all levels. The good news is that you can learn to develop and master this vital competency. If you're interested in being your best through effective communication, that's exactly what you...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning columnist and journalist describes how businesses that structure their teams into functional departments, or "silos," actually hinder work, cripple innovation, restrict thinking and force normally smart people to ignore risks and opportunities. --Publsiher's description.
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get...
16) Crucial confrontations: tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
17) Quick team-building activities for busy managers: 50 exercises that get results in just 15 minutes
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Publisher
American Management Association
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?
You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated
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Publisher
Bibliomotion, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation, and less satisfaction than men. Breaking Through Bias explains that it is the stereotypes about women, men, work, leadership, and family that hold women...
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Publisher
AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Birth, death, and conflict-three things you truly can't avoid. Whether it's big or small, conflict eats into productivity and makes people feel stuck. Yet solutions exist for even the toughest situations with the most intractable people. The answer lies in better communication-not just using different words, but rather learning to think differently. "I Hear You" supplies proven techniques for stepping outside one's point of view and seeing things...
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