Business Development Skills

You are missing out on so many relationships in your life. Communication is the bedrock of our relationships. But we often don’t know how to express ourselves, or truly hear others. Make sure that you are not letting amazing people pass you by. Increase your social and emotional awareness. Conversations Skills Training is truly about arming you with the tools you need for effective expression, listening, and relationships.

Michael Gelb’s techniques will help you clarify and shape your message so that your audience - no matter how big or small, in person or virtual - will care about it. Once the message is clear, he teaches you how to convey it in memorable, creative, and effective ways. Gelb shows that public speaking is a skill anyone can learn and enjoy. Mastering the Art of Public Speaking will guide you to rediscover your natural gift for communication while strengthening confidence and presence.

So, how do you change someone's mind - or at least advance the conversation - when everyone is entrenched in their own points of view? Communication expert Lee Hartley Carter has spent nearly 20 years advising and helping the world's most well-known companies do just that. Filled with deeply researched insights into how we make up - and change - our minds, as well as colorful real-world examples and actionable recommendations, Persuasion will help you hone your message and craft your narrative in order to get heard and get results.

In today's troubled economic market, everything is a tough sell. From products to services, everyone is consuming less as they tighten their belts. In this respect, it's easy to forget that the job interview is becoming more and more like the showroom - where the interview itself is the pitch, and the product you're selling is yourself. The Art of Selling Yourself will provide you with the knowhow you need to navigate today's tough business terrain and achieve success in your career and your life.

In The Super Connector’s Playbook, Lirone Glikman, a global leader in business relationships and personal branding, reveals her proven, research-backed strategies for harnessing your communication skills and personal brand as your ultimate superpower to success. With decades of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, policymakers, and top executives, Glikman developed and perfected the Human Factor Method, a step-by-step system to help you create, maintain, and leverage powerful relationships with confidence and ease.

The people we surround ourselves with may impact our lives more than any other factor, yet most people leave their social lives to chance. What would happen if you treated social skills as though they were indeed skills and became proactive about your social life? Superhuman Social Skills is a transformative book that analyzes and explains how to be likeable, how to converse, how to tell stories, how to make friends, and how to combine those friends to create an incredible social circle.

Help! I Work with People is not a book about leadership theory, but rather a handbook on how to connect with people and influence them for good. With his signature transparent and relatable storytelling, Chad Veach uses modern research and biblical principles to encourage you to lean into your leadership potential regardless of your level of influence or experience. In short and easily digestible chapters, he addresses the three phases of becoming a quality leader: learning to lead the hardest person you will ever be in charge of-yourself and more.

Why do so many organizations, teams, couples, families, and groups who should be working together end up wasting energy on unproductive conflict? Even when everyone has the same general goals, what’s often missing is a deeper alignment based on mutual trust, respect, and empathy. With Radical Alignment, top-level life and business coaches (and happily married couple) Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower share their potent method for helping groups to stop clashing and start working together.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to grow stronger with every challenge, while others feel trapped by self-doubt? It’s frustrating to watch others make progress and question why you can’t experience the same breakthroughs. Negative thoughts have a way of creeping in, convincing you that your skills are limited and that you’re destined to remain where you are. This can weigh heavily on your heart, making it hard to believe there’s a path forward. But what if you could turn self-doubt into confidence?

Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain for Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain for Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting that will get anyone where they want to go, fast.

Success is not only a matter of what you know and who you know, it's also a matter of who knows you; by becoming a trusted contact and a source of answers, your influence expands - and so do your opportunities. This book will show you how to build influence from the ground up.

In an increasingly competitive job market, it is essential that your voice doesn’t let you down. Voice for Women in Business gives you the strategies and vocal techniques to help to you speak with vocal elegance, to find your voice of authority, and to help you gain greater vocal confidence. First impressions matter! Voice for Women in Business will help you to make the right vocal impact in many professional scenarios.

You're not alone—many adults face similar challenges daily. Imagine confidently expressing your ideas, connecting deeply with others, and navigating conversations with ease. This guide offers a comprehensive toolkit tailored for modern communication needs, empowering you in all social settings. Even if you've felt daunted by past attempts to improve your skills, this book provides bite-sized, actionable advice that fits seamlessly into your daily life.

Michael Brenner’s Mean People Suck uses real-life experience and proven research to show why, instead of blaming others, we can look inside ourselves and learn how to use empathy to defeat “mean” in every situation. This insightful guide shows leaders and employees how improving emotional communication increases profits and enhances lives.

The Quick-Step Handbook to Improved Listening Skills and How You Honor Others in Listening. Not a complicated textbook - this simple handbook explains the 20 key protocols necessary for active, purposeful listening. There is tremendous power in listening, and being a better listener can elevate your status among those around you, mitigate many a drama, and instill a sense of esteem in those to whom you listen.

The biggest fear of people living in the western world today is stated to be public speaking. The second most common fear is death! This means that many people are more afraid of standing up and speaking to group than they are of dying! Crazy right? The fear of speaking in public can feel very real and for many absolutely paralyzing. So, what if I told you that most of the people I have worked with have gone on to enjoy public speaking?

Do you struggle to find the right words in important moments? Do nerves, lack of clarity, or uncertainty about your audience hold you back from speaking with confidence? How to Speak Effectively Anywhere by Melanie Nash is your complete guide to mastering communication in every setting—from the workplace to social gatherings, from formal speeches to casual conversations. This book takes you step by step through the skills that turn ordinary communication into powerful connection.

As the founder and CEO of the management training organization Executive Essentials, Michelle Tillis coaches and trains leaders to experience continual growth and achieve results through the power of collaboration, communication, and relationships. In 11 Laws of Likability, she presents activities and real-life anecdotes from professional and social settings to show listeners how to identify what's likable in themselves and use those characteristics to build connections with other professionals.

Through his Persuasion Institute, Kurt Mortensen has sought out and studied the Persuasion IQ (PQ) of the world’s top influencers. Now, in this game-changing guide, he’s leveraging his vast knowledge to teach listeners the essential habits, traits, and behaviors necessary to cultivate their natural persuasive abilities. Concentrating on the 10 major Persuasion IQ skills, the book provides listeners an opportunity to assess their own PQ, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and start down a path to enormous success and wealth.

This guide will provide the simple steps to enhance your communication skills at work leading to reduced office politics, great team work, and minimized work stress. You will discover: the communication techniques to apply in a workplace to attain job satisfaction; the essential ways to manage a difficult boss; how to lead a team using the right communication skills to accomplish a project successfully; nine strategies to become a brilliant public speaker; and more.