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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...
Author
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."--
Author
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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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Ditch the negative mental habits that derail conversations and destroy projects, and instead discover a framework for forging authentic, enduring, productive connections. All too often, we find our conversations stuck in cyclical patterns of unproductive behavior. We listen half-heartedly, react emotionally, and respond habitually, or what Chuck Wisner calls "sleep talking." Conscious Conversations explores the way we can reframe our thoughts, emotions,...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clear communication requires the courage to confront the psychological blocks that are holding you back. Learn how to become a fearless and peerless communicator. As a lifelong communication coach, Michelle Gladieux has discovered the four sneaky psychological obstacles that can keep you from becoming an effective communicator: Hiding-Fearing your low self-confidence will expose your supposed weaknesses; Defining-Putting too much stock into your...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"By having carefully structured conversations about taboo topics instead of avoiding them altogether, organizations can safely confront biases and stereotypes and become stronger and more inclusive. Politics, religion, race-we can't talk about topics like these at work, right? But in fact, these conversations are happening all the time, either in real life or virtually. And if they aren't handled effectively, they can become more polarizing and divisive,...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'An instant classic-this book is so utterly relevant and needed. And it is hellishly refreshing to boot. I fucking love it, and heartily recommend it to all.' -Dr Jason Fox, best-selling author of How to Lead a Quest Take a practical approach to the communication challenges in your workplace. Through 11 strategies, 23 tactics and 15 stories this handy how-to will help curious humans: use the science of connection to create compelling communication...
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Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With so many digital tools in the workplace, collaboration has gone omnichannel. Given how hyperconnected people are, the authors set out to explore the implications for organizations and teams. In their research, they discovered that always-on connectivity was good for fact finding and information sharing but not for problem-solving, as we tend to assume. For tasks that require imagination, it's better to alternate between connectivity and quiet...
Publisher
ROUTLEDGE
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and communication are becoming increasingly visual, and, more generally, multimodal, whether in digital form or otherwise. Within multimodality studies it has...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
'Organizational research methods' (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world. For example, without ontology, there is no 'ground' and no 'theory' in Grounded Theory (GT) This book explores ten ways to develop fourth wave GT that is grounded and theory. 1st wave GT commits inductive fallacy inference, 2nd wave GT bandaids it with positivistic content coding. 3rd wave GT...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What defines great leadership? Using original research on 360-degree feedback data for thousands of managers, Jack Zenger, with colleagues Joseph Folkman and Scott Edinger, identified 16 specific competencies the most effective leaders share. Of these, the ability to inspire and motivate others to high performance had the most significant, positive impact on the performance of the organization. And yet, it was the area in which managers were weakest....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As work increasingly cuts across boundaries, it's necessary for you to influence people at all levels of your organisation in order to get your job done. Whether it's your boss (or your boss's boss!), peers or direct reports, Carole Robin describes how to use the law of reciprocity and the theory of exchange to create the currencies that matter to potential allies and create win/win solutions. Dr. Robin explains how the effective use of in uence helps...
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