Social Skills Success

Mindfulness at Work Essentials for Dummies explores the many benefits of utilizing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals, and business people of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills. You'll discover the key concepts of mindfulness and quickly grasp how its implementation in the workplace is a win-win for you, your team, and your organization as a whole.

We are influenced by every person and interaction we have, and, in turn, we influence everyone and everything around us. We all have a choice about what to do with our influence: Will we leave a negative impact on others or use our influence to become a shining beacon of positivity? Smith and Griffin upskill listeners with tools to stay humble, lead themselves and the people around them well, and create opportunities to expand their influence in new and exciting ways.

Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone - social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most of us almost unbearably uncomfortable. But here's the funny thing: even though we hate to ask for help, most people are wired to be helpful. And that's a good thing, because every day in the modern, uber-collaborative workplace, we all need to know when and how to call in the cavalry.

Trust is the antidote to every toxic relationship and workplace environment. It is everyone’s responsibility to build a space where trust and belonging are present, which only happens through effective communication. You build high levels of trust with others when you can answer yes to all three of these questions: Do I take people with me along the journey? Do I create a safe space for people to open up? Do I make people feel less alone in the world? Trust is built one yes at a time. This book is your road map on how to make that possible.

A compilation of stories, personal and historical, that remind us of the power of our voice—along with practical techniques for how to use your voice, on stage and off, in a way that will be the most effective. With over 30 years of experience in film, TV, and theater, Tricia Brouk uses her platform to create a safe, inclusive space for others to learn how to share their stories. The Influential Voice is a powerful reminder of the responsibility we have to use our voices for good, and that by staying silent, we are preventing someone from hearing our powerful story.

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious there’s an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it’s a Blamephant—whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In Don’t Feed the Elephants!, Sarah explores how you can address the true elephant in the room: avoidance.

Are you the master of your emotions or are they in charge of you? If you are attempting to be successful but your efforts are not effective, there is a good chance that you are making the same mistake countless number of others are making. Your mistake is that you are leaving out the human element in your quest for success. It's not just what you do and how well you do it, it's about how you are able to listen to those around you and touch them in a way that you haven't until this point. This book is about to change your life by showing you the different aspects of influencing the people around you. It is about learning how to listen to them and say what you need, how you need to get them to shatter their opinion and embrace yours.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

Even though public speaking is the most common of all fears, it doesn’t have to be a roadblock on the path to your success. Whether you’re speaking to five or five hundred, you can learn to do it with confidence and charisma. The best advice from some of the world’s most inspiring speakers is gathered right here. These powerful tips and techniques will help you develop winning material, mentally prepare for your presentation, and communicate a powerful message.

Everyone has a "schmuck" in their office - a difficult, disruptive person who upsets the workplace, confuses their coworkers, and causes concern. No one is safe from a schmuck. They come in many sizes and shapes. In her new audiobook, Dr. Jody Foster explains the entire spectrum of schmucks and how they can decrease productivity and generally make everyone else unhappy.

Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results. You'll develop an understanding of the skills for holding a REAL conversation, including both the "said" and the "unsaid" elements present in any conversation; discover the framework for preparing and holding difficult yet meaningful conversations; and learn to no longer avoid the tough conversations they need to have.

We were built for depth for the kind of conversations that leave you breathless, for friendships that can carry your ugliest truths, for love that doesn’t require a filter. But somewhere along the way we traded bridges for billboards. We learned to curate, to perform, to stay “chill,” to keep the museum of our life spotless and empty. In The Bridge We Build, Piyere Cadiff hands you the forgotten blueprint for real human connection no therapy-speak fluff, no toxic positivity, just honest, usable architecture for a life that finally feels like home.

Secretos Oscuros Detrás de la Máscara revela la psicología oculta de la influencia, el engaño y el control. Basado en la ciencia de la psicología oscura, la decodificación del lenguaje corporal y la detección de mentiras, esta guía te brinda la conciencia y las herramientas para defenderte e incluso dar la vuelta a la situación con persuasión ética.

Lectura Mental Hecha Simple es tu guía para desbloquear el lenguaje oculto de la mente y el cuerpo humano. A través de explicaciones claras, ejemplos reales y ejercicios prácticos, aprenderás a ver a través de las mentiras, leer emociones con precisión láser e influir éticamente en los demás.

Some people are talented at speaking before audiences, some at writing books, some at leading others, some at starting businesses. We're just talented in different ways. If you want to succeed, you must first identify the areas in which you are talented and then commit to developing those talents to the fullest. This audiobook will help you do just that with 12 proven strategies for uncommon achievement, including substantiated studies and unforgettable tips.

There are hundreds of books on management. This is not just another book about what makes an effective manager. Becoming a Better Boss highlights why well-known advice on good management is so rarely heeded. By focusing on management through the eyes of an employee, Julian Birkinshaw gives us insightful and helpful advice on what we might do differently - both as individual managers of others, and as architects of the organizations in which we work. To achieve this, Birkinshaw has spent time working "in the trenches" to remind himself what life as an employee feels like.

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 Control the Conversation, the authors guide you in crafting a response to a question, not just an answer. A response should be multidimensional and include relevant and compelling information that goes beyond a mere answer. The authors help you build and apply this skill set. You will learn how to manage the four areas of disclosure - people, places, things, and events in time. You will also develop competence in techniques that will help you take control and get your message across in any kind of interview.

Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact with individuals and organizations from a diverse range of cultural and national backgrounds - increasing the likelihood for miscommunication, errors in strategy, and unintended consequences in the process. Use Your Difference to Make a Difference provides listeners with a skills-based, actionable plan that transforms differences into agents of inclusiveness, connection, and mutual understanding.

The Puppet Master’s Codex is your tactical guide to exposing covert manipulation, building mental immunity, and cutting the strings before they tighten. It blends the dark truths of psychology, brain control, NLP, and emotional warfare into one brutally honest field manual for your mind.