Essential Communication

Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension, or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals.

Faulty grammar can slow you down and diminish your credibility as a business writer. Essential Grammar has just one objective: to help you use correct English in the documents you write for work. Correct writing is an excellent way to boost your professional credibility. Here are some of the skills the book helps you master: writing grammatically correct sentences, using the right forms of pronouns and verbs, distinguishing between commonly confused words, and knowing when and where to use punctuation marks.

We began with a question: “Do you listen to respond, or listen to understand?” While many books are written about how to get your point across, effective communication is about transmitting and receiving messages as close to the intended meaning as possible. One central issue contributes more than others to the deterioration of a message’s intended meaning. Real-world communication can be compared to standing on a two-way street filled with loud and distracting traffic. Imagine that you are on one side of that street, but the person trying to speak with you is on the other side.

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful.

Leaders often know what they need to do, but don’t have a clue who they need to be. Being Essential presents the seven questions that will help any leader discover an authentic path to the true self and master a virtuous cycle of self-awareness that fosters purpose, value, and joy at work and in life.

Negotiations can be a perplexing and often-intimidating endeavor. Are there aspects about the process that are hiding beneath the surface, unknown to even experienced negotiators? Or insider tools that would change your game considerably? The answer is yes—and they're all revealed in this practical guide from a world-renowned negotiation expert. Negotiation Essentials demystifies this all-important subject, helping you break the process down into easily digestible parts.

Essential Guide to Public Speaking for Beginners has been created to suit your objectives by providing you with simple, effective, and easy-to-follow tips and tricks about public speaking. So many of us suffer from the fear of speaking in public to a large audience. It can be extremely daunting to think about and can result in all sorts of feelings of panic and anxiety about what might go wrong.

Using real-world examples, illustrations from their own lives, and a researchbased approach, dynamic daughter-mother duo Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie guide you through familiar relationship situations. Their suggestions can be used with your partner, coworkers, children, extended family members, and friends. Drawing from their experience teaching thousands through The Center for Relationship Education, they introduce practical, easy-to-use strategies that will help you communicate more effectively and work through relationship challenges with confidence.

Você quer ser mais simpático? Ou se defender com estilo de ataques verbais? Ou você quer simplesmente enfrentar conversas difíceis com o seu parceiro ou em seu trabalho de uma maneira melhor? Este é um livro para aprender a ganhar amigos e ser excelente em situações sociais. Trata de táticas e técnicas para ser mais carismático, charmoso e mais engenhoso, o que certamente lhe permitirá lidar com qualquer reunião social sem esforço.

With the stresses of school, exams, relationships, and friendships, it can all feel overwhelming sometimes. According to the American Psychological Association, teens are 15% more likely than adults to report that stress impacts their physical health and 9% more likely to report an impact on their mental health.

Are you overwhelmed by an ever-growing workload, struggling to harmonize business success with personal well-being? Do decision fatigue and stress leave you feeling drained and disconnected from your entrepreneurial vision? You’re not alone. Even iconic entrepreneurs like Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs faced these challenges—what set them apart was their mastery of emotional intelligence. They turned stress into strength, and setbacks into opportunities for growth. This book offers you the tools to do the same.

Beginning your career in Tech sales can be overwhelming and challenging. Here is a guide to help you navigate the start of your selling career and set the foundation for long term success.

Si usted o alguien que usted conoce está luchando para comunicarse efectivamente en su matrimonio, usted sabe exactamente cuán traumática puede ser esa experiencia. No sólo puede causar daños y pérdidas emocionales sustanciales, la falta de comunicación efectiva o una mala comunicación en el matrimonio puede hacer que pierdas tu imagen de ti mismo y también afectar tu capacidad para manejar la diversidad.

All the information contained in this book is designed to help fix your social skills, once and for all. The application of what you learn in this book can help you see results in as less as one week and change your life forever.

Este libro te puede ayudar no solo a mejorar tu escucha sino también a poder comprender un poco el motivo de por qué nos cuesta tanto poner atención, así igual el cómo interrumpimos o nos interrumpen lo que complica la comunicación de la escucha y se da a malinterpretaciones.

Former hostage negotiator, international peacekeeper and professional interrogator J. Paul Nadeau spent over 31 years as a police officer and specialist, studying human behavior and the art of friendly persuasion. Paul talked hostage-takers into giving up, criminals into confessing, and terrorists into cooperating, and he now offers his persuasion techniques and principles to you in this informative and easy-to-follow guide.

This audiobook, Enneagram: An Essential Guide to Unlocking the 9 Personality Types to Increase Your Self-Awareness and Understand Other Personalities So You Can Build Better Relationships and Improve Communication, gives you clear strategies to use the Enneagram for self-insight and a happier, fuller life. By exploring the types and the different systems within the Enneagram, you can unlock amazing possibilities for yourself.

This audiobook is a primer on the most essential soft-skills that you can, or rather should, learn to help you in your career progression and professional growth. As more and more jobs get standardized, automated, or disrupted with the onslaught of technologies, these skills will give you a consistent and constant advantage amongst your peers.

In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive.

In today’s divided world, a lot of people feel helpless and frustrated in various situations where they have to deal with other people and their strong opinions. Think about the heated political climate right now, to the point that families don’t talk to each other anymore. Wouldn’t you like to spend future holidays with your whole family? And enjoy it? Effective Communication: 5 Essential Tips and Exercises to Improve How You Communicate is your comprehensive, go-to guide to improve your communication effortlessly and get your message across effectively in any scenario.