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Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: "Some of my best friends are...(Black, White, Asian, etc.)"? or "I don't think of you as...(Gay, Disabled, Jewish, etc.)"? or "I don't see color, I'm colorblind"? These statements and dozens like them can build a divide between us and the people we interact with. Though well-intended, they often widen the diversity gap sometimes causing irreparable harm personally and professionally.

Smacking some numbers onto a pie chart is old news and simply doesn't work anymore. Keeping your audience inspired and on the edge of their seats through an engaging data story is what we as business professionals should be striving to do. How to Win with Your Data Visualizations uncovers the fundamentals of what makes a winning data presentation and has laid them out in five easy-to-understand parts you can immediately apply to your next chart and presentation to see a winning data story unfold.

The Pop-Up Pitch is a radical new approach to help you create the perfect presentation, combining three key elements of persuasive storytelling - simple pictures, clear words, and powerful emotions - that together motivate audiences to pay attention, learn something new, and make effective decisions. The Pop-Up Pitch weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and inspiring storytelling algorithm.

The Relationship Blueprint: Unleashing the Power of Business Connections by Curtis Waters offers a timeless guide for anyone looking to develop and nurture lasting, impactful connections in both their personal and professional lives. Drawing from over 45 years of experience in high-technology sales, real estate investing, and brokerage, Curtis provides a roadmap to not only making connections but also sustaining them for long-term success.

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration.

In Business Spotlight Audio 1/2021 für Januar hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Und mit zahlreichen Übungen können Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen verbessern. Im Bereich "Communication" erhalten Sie Tipps für die Durchführung erfolgreicher Besprechungen. In der Rubrik "Careers" geht es um die Bedeutung der Einflussnahme auf Mitarbeiter und außerdem um die Frage, ob die berufliche Karriere eher mit der Kochkunst oder der Liebe zu vergleichen ist.

Finally, a comprehensive resource to help you master speaking techniques and more. Learn from the world’s legendary professional speakers as they teach you how to tell your story, deliver a public speech, combat stage fright, control non-verbals, and persuade an audience. Even with the most difficult speaking subjects, learn how to use humor, quotes, and statistics to highlight a point.

Speaking to Influence is all about helping you understand how the way that you speak has a powerful effect on your ability to influence your surroundings, your relationships, your reputation, and your potential to succeed. If you feel stuck, like you’ve hit a plateau in life then this audiobook will show you how to take a step back and assess how your current style of communication is keeping you from achieving the results you want and maximizing your powers of influence.

I believe everyone has a story to tell. We all have experiences, memories, expertise and lessons we have learned that can benefit other people. I love the experience of when a "talk" comes to me. It's as if a seed was planted, and it starts to grow. It can even wake me up in the middle of the night!

Sales is now a team sport, and to win, you have to build and manage selling squads that work in complete alignment - not just during client meetings, but before and after, as well. In Sell Like a Team, Michael Dalis, a senior consultant at the legendary sales training firm, The Richardson Company, guides you through the process of creating and managing selling squads that execute and win in every sales meeting or pitch.

Based on author Carmine Gallo's career as a Fortune 500 communications coach and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Communicators has been updated and revised to show business people how to achieve their personal and professional goals by mastering the 10 simple secrets used by the world's greatest business communicators.

If you are a B2B high-ticket service provider seeking to grow, you need cost-effective outreach to your ideal clients. Sweet Leads is the perfect guide to identifying, approaching and nurturing prospects who need your solutions or you are looking to partner with. Using the proven six-step ZZ Framework, this concise handbook gives you the tools and know-how to plan, execute and optimise your outreach campaign.

The way we do business in the US and across the world has changed. We now meet through Zoom, Skype, Meet, and Teams. Those who sell virtually are likely to suffer a longer sales process. Since 82 percent of communication is non-verbal, virtual communication is difficult.

Sending an email plagued with typos. Rushing through a presentation. Never saying “no”. Under-dressing for a company event. What do these all have in common? Bad messaging. The Communication Clinic is a comprehensive, commonsense guide to getting the job of your dreams and presenting yourself in the best light through your writing, speaking, body language, and overall appearance. In no time, you'll begin recognizing the subtle mistakes that are holding you back, and taking steps to overcome them.

Work, family, relationships—life is demanding. A high-stress situation, or being on the X where all the pressures converge, could be right around the corner. How will you confront it? Your ability to succeed in stressful and challenging situations and seize opportunities depends on how you show up to face these moments. When you’re up against obstacles, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. But the battles you face are won when you prepare for life on the X. Life on the X shares strategies used by the world’s highest performers.

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

Need to speak and make a great impression? If you want to go from fearful to confident and average to outstanding, then this is the book that will take you to a standing ovation. Acclaimed speaker Ron Tsang shows you 15 powerful public speaking lessons in this practical and entertaining book, From Presentation to Standing Ovation.

How to Design (and Deliver) TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides. It is based on an extensive analysis of some of the best TED speakers, such as Brene Brown, Daniel Pink, Amy Cuddy, Larry Lessig, Seth Godin, Bill Gates and many, many more.

Stop wasting your precious time. Business executives nationwide agree that meetings are the most unproductive activity in business today. Now, whether you're a leader or a participant, one of America's master communication specialists shows how you can get the most out of any meeting in half the time.