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Listen With Your Eyes
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The Link Between College and the World of Work - College and Career Collection Spotlight
Listen With Your Eyes
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The Link Between College and the World of Work - College and Career Collection Spotlight
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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice!
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office...
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office...
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One of the New York Post's Top 10 Career Books of 2012 and a Booklist Top 10 Business Book
DO YOU WORK WITH A MEAN GIRL?
A woman's field guide to the new frontier of professional development—working with other women
Women-to-women relationships in the workplace are . . . complicated. When they're good, they're great. But when they're bad, they can ruin your day, your week—even your year.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it"--
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Judd Ryker novels volume 1
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English
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The Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, military action-something-might reverse the chain of events. As the top American diplomat for West Africa, Todd Moss saw a great deal about how diplomacy and politics actually work. But as he shows us, the results aren't always pretty. When Judd Ryker is appointed director of the new State Department...
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The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting what one wants, being understood from our point of view,...
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W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it? For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest...
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Harper Business, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
�2021.
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English
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"Drawing on advice from the world's leading experts on conflict and communication--from hostage negotiators to marriage therapists to peace activists to rhetoricians--journalist Ian Leslie describes how to turn arguments and conflict into productive disagreements and restore civility to professional, public, and private discourse"--
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"When we're dealing with difficult people, our creativity, productivity, and engagement suffer. Conflict and stress compromise our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions. We get caught up in our heads, lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret-rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should speak up. Our negative relationships are contagious, infecting our teams...
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HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"A thought-provoking and practical book that will allow readers to break free of predictable ways of acting and speaking, take control of how they are treated at work, and ensure that difficult, repetitive, and avoidable situations never occur again"--
14) How to tell anyone anything: breakthrough techniques for handling difficult conversations at work
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American Management Association
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
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English
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At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you get past passive aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues--and how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.--
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
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English
Description
While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way....
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AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Difficult people can make life hard, but a select few can make it hell. The boss with nonsensical demands. The spouse who explodes at nothing. The overly emotional coworker, hostile neighbor, or friend who frequently bursts into tears. Marriages, families, friendships, careers, businesses--crazy people drag them all down with their manipulation, volatility, and inability to see the world rationally. You can't win by just ignoring the craziness or...
20) Tiger and turtle
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a tiger and a turtle both want a flower that has fallen to the ground, they argue over it until a fight breaks out between them.
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