Leadership Communication Skills

You can choose to be at your very best when giving a presentation to a large or small group. Professional speakers and actors know that a critical success factor is preparing your body for the presentation so you are relaxed and energetic to be at your very best. This segment will help you prepare for a presentation or a big meeting.

If you're going to move your audience to take action, you need to move out of your comfort zone at critical times. How you open your presentation and answer questions in a presentation gives your audience a sense of confidence in how well you know your subject matter as well as tells them your level of capability and presence. We'll give your tips on how to give your presentations more impact and power and insights into managing Q&A with grace.

Ever have a project derail due to botched communication? Ever had someone say something you said earlier, and then get credit for it? Irritating, isn't it? To get your ideas heard and remembered, listen to this segment. You'll be much more effective in getting credit for your ideas and keeping your projects on track.

Presentations have a disproportionate amount of impact on our careers. Great ones can glean more positive attention than you can imagine. However, so often we talk ourselves out of being our best as presenters. This piece talks about some great ways to get your mind and body on your side instead of working against you.

nderstanding the other person's point of view, to see the world from their perspective, can make your life much easier. It can also demonstrate your professional maturity. We offer you a quick checklist that can be done while sitting in the many meetings you attend each week. It can work wonders with your key relationships at work.

You have great instincts, but do you always listen to them? Why not? You or those you lead have more to offer than they're currently sharing. We've put together a terrific guide to help you trust your gut effectively. The payback is huge!

We've all seen people who are amazingly persuasive. We'd all like to be even more effective as persuaders ourselves. We've put together how some of the best persuaders we've seen at Change Masters manage this art. Their tips will help you achieve even better persuasive success.

In order to maximize your political savvy, you need to become more aware of your power and those who are successfully managing the informal organizational chart around you. We'll give you tips on power and politics that will make you more effective and positively impact your perception in the workplace.

Ever joined a new team and found them resistant to your direction or ideas? Here are some great easy and creative approaches to get people engaged and moving along when they have stalled or are stuck in a rut.

You have to deal with difficult people all the time, including whiners and bullies. Whining is one of the most difficult behaviors to deal with. Get some perspectives on why whiners whine and what you can do to help yourself and them. In addition, you might be surprised to learn that some of the most brutal people are actually extremely sensitive inside. Get tips in this piece on how to help them take down their walls so your life can be a whole lot easier.

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious listening that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101 is an easy-to-understand road map of today's complex business world.

Dion Lim has seen it all. As an Asian American woman in the hyper-competitive, White- and male-dominated business of TV news, her career path required a powerful blend of street smarts, determination, and a willingness to learn from mistakes-all of which she learned on the job. Today, she's an ABC anchor in one of the biggest cities in the country. In Make Your Moment, Dion guides you through what she has learned on the career battlefield and what it means for other working women today.

Never before has the world been so interconnected. Understanding that everything we accomplish is done through connections, networking becomes the key to success in your business, career and relationships. Many of us aren't comfortable breaking the ice or meeting new people, but it's a learned skill and not all that difficult. A Networking Book will get you there with ease and confidence.

Listening is harder than it looks - but it's the difference between business success and failure. Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided and that the skills and habits of good listening can be developed and mastered. He offers a step-by-step process that will help you become an active listener, able to shape and focus any conversation.

Anyone who is in a position where leadership is essential must possess some skills of persuasion and manipulation in order to get the results they need. Often, these skills develop slowly, over a long period of time, but for some, there may be a need to improve much faster, and that is where this book comes in.

Authenticity, compassion, and alignment are the new paths to leadership success. Whether you’re the coach of a sports team; a nonprofit executive; or leading a small organization, or Fortune 500 company, the secret sauce lies in your ability to connect. Don't know how, or what to do? Executive coach, business professor, and author Dr. Michelle K. Johnston, along with the voices of 18 leaders at large and small organizations across North America, South America, and Europe, empower you to project your authentic leadership style. Start listening!

When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hardball, we can be seen as overly aggressive - and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, and finding the right words takes time, and time is money, then wouldn't it follow that business leaders could make more money-in less time-if they simply took a more "visual" approach to how they manage and lead? Okay, it's not quite that simple...but VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.

Fortune 500 consultant Dianna Booher is one of the world's foremost authorities on public speaking and business communication. She has trained and consulted for some of the top executives in leading companies - and she has heard all the grumbling between departments about the "lack of communication" today. Using 10 clear-cut strategies, she will show you exactly what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and even how to present yourself credibly - all crucial elements in business today.

You have the confidence to excel and shine in every social setting. All you need to do is unlock your inner rock star with everything that is shared in this audiobook. Just about anyone can start applying these strategies in his or her life right away.