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If customer-driven service isn't already one of your organization's goals, it should be. In this program, Tony Alessandra, an expert on building business relationships, outlines some sure-fire strategies for consistently "wowing" your customers. You'll learn how to identify and exceed their expectations, build long-term relationships, and create what Alessandra calls "moments of magic."

This 2-part program gives you guidelines on preparing for an effective meeting - determining the purpose for the meeting, preparing an agenda, inviting the attendees, setting an appropriate time and place as well as the skills needed to be an effective meeting leader.

This 2-part program will give you a guide to developing a more thorough understanding of nonverbal communication techniques. By increasing your awareness of nonverbal behavior, you can read the emotions and attitudes of fellow employees, supervisors, customers, and others you interact with inside and outside your organization. As a result, you will have a greater feeling for and awareness of all your interpersonal transactions.

In this audiobook, Dr Tony Alessandra covers the 5 negative flexibility traits. Flexibility is your willingness to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

Active listening is a skill so important that anyone who lacks it is sure to have problems at home and at work. What they didn't teach you in school - but what you'll learn in this program - could be the key to becoming closer to your friends and family as well as becoming a better, stronger leader.

Good presentations can provide opportunities for growth in power, control, recognition, and prestige. The guidelines presented by Dr. Tony Alessandra in this program can help you immensely if you listen, study, and practice them consistently.

Turn your customers into business apostles who "preach the gospel" according to your company. Dr. Alessandra focuses on how everyone in your organization can become more customer-driven and less operations-driven; how to turn moments of misery into moments of magic for your customers; and how to create customer intimacy, customer retention, and customer satisfaction, which leads to customer loyalty.

Dr. Alessandra teaches you six easy steps help you increase your sales, get more referrals, and earn higher commissions. It contains strategies and techniques that ensure you team up with your prospects.

This program covers the five positive versatility traits of being resilient, having vision, being attentive, being competent, and knowing how to self-correct. Versatility is your ability to engage in a range of behaviors, not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving, in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

What is the cost of losing a customer? In today's competitive environment, it is a cost no business can afford. It costs you up to 4 times more to get a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. However, That does not even take into account the fact that an unhappy customer will tell an average of 20 customers about their bad experiences, while a satisfied customer will only tell 10 people about their good experiences. This means you have to make twice as many customers happy as unhappy ...

Goals, when earnestly pursued, give people reasons to do some things and to avoid other things. This program shows you how to identify your goals and map out the steps that will help you achieve them.

Charisma is not based on genetics, I.Q., social position, or luck. Charisma is a skill - one of the most valuable skills in the world that you can learn and master with the right information and tools delivered by Dr. Tony Alessandra in this program.

In this audiobook, Dr. Tony Alessandra covers the 5 positive flexibility traits. Flexibility is your willingness to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

Your ability to understand nonverbal communications is apparently not related to IQ, the ability to take tests, or the grades one makes in school. Practice tends to improve the ability to understand body language. People tested for body language comprehension generally score higher on second and subsequent tests than on their first tries.

Thom Winninger covers tactical maneuvers to win customers over competitors in price wars by selling value and not lowering your product quality and your price. Thom emphasizes finding out what the customer values and working your presentation around that value. You must identify and define your customer’s highest need.

Dr. Tony Alessandra covers the 5 negative versatility traits of subjectiveness, bluntness, resistance, single-mindedness, and taking unreasonable risks. Versatility is your ability to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

The Platinum Rule is Dr. Tony Alessandra’s system for achieving instant rapport and chemistry with almost anyone. It teaches you how to "read" people by their words and actions in order to determine their behavioral style. Then you learn how to adapt your behavioral style to meet them halfway. The result is an unmistakable and unbreakable bond based on 39+ years of Dr. Alessandra’s behavioral research in the area of human relationships.

In this idea-packed new audio program from Gildan Media, Communication Expert Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of the best sellers Relationship Strategies and The Ten Qualities of Charismatic People, will teach you the Ten Qualities of The World's Greatest Communicators. Tony has observed that the majority of the great leaders in the worlds of both politics and business are also great communicators.

Tony Alessandra, Ph.D., has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having fought his way out of NYC to realize success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and keynote speaker. With a BBA, MBA, and Ph.D. in marketing, a diverse history in sales, and as an entrepreneur and founder of two current technology businesses, MentorU and Online Assessments, Tony brings a broad foundation of experience to every program he delivers.

Listening is just as important as speaking. Good listening draws people to you. Poor listening causes them to drift away. This program offers a powerful set of tools to help you build your listening skills up to maximum effectiveness. Jumpstart your way to better listening today!