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Supercommunicator supplies time-tested communication tips, big digital-era ideas, and real-life examples to help anyone deliver clear, persuasive messages that win hearts, minds, and budgets. By learning to grab attention and explain difficult ideas to nontechnical listeners, you'll master an important twenty-first century skill - one that drives funding, policy decisions, public awareness, customer adoption, and your own career prospects.
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"So much of success in business depends on writing well. From resumes to reports, proposals to presentations, Writing Well for Business Success will help you communicate your ideas clearly, quickly and effectively. It will help you distill your message into a well-targeted statement; ace the elements of style; write what you want to say in emails, business plans and more; master the tricks of editing yourself. Presented in author Sandra Lamb's lighthearted...
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"A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford's first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic role in shaping the world around us-and still do...
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xxviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
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Full of essential advice for spotlight lovers and wallflowers alike, this book will teach you how to bring any crowd to its feet. Your day is full of moments when you must persuade, inform, and motivate others. Each of those moments requires you to play a role, to heighten the impact of your words, and to manage your emotions and nerves--if you want to steal the show, that is. Every interaction is a performance, whether you're speaking up in a meeting,...
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xii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
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Communicating virtually is cool, useful, and becoming more universal every day. But the actual communication is often quite bad. Indeed, everyone agrees that the quality of human connection we feel in virtual meetings, email, and other forms of virtual communication is awful. Worse than boring, virtual communication very often leads to misunderstandings, because it deprives us of the emotional knowledge that helps us understand context. How can we...
11) The 5 languages of appreciation in the workplace: empowering organizations by encouraging people
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You appreciate your coworkers, but do they feel appreciated? In today's workplace it is crucial for employees to feel valued. But that's a challenge when you and your employees communicate appreciation differently. Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Paul White help you: Elevate employee engagement by making your staff feel truly valued ; Decrease turnover and increase loyalty with your employees and supervisors ; Reduce cynicism and create a more positive...
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How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television's most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who launches in business history? How did a timid pastor's son overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sellout crowds at Yankee Stadium, twice? How did a human rights attorney earn TED's longest standing ovation, and how did a Facebook executive launch a movement to encourage millions of women to "lean in"? They told brilliant...
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"Leadership Mastery: Ten Steps to Unlock Your Full Potential" is a must-read for aspiring leaders, seasoned professionals, and anyone seeking to enhance their leadership abilities. It serves as a guidebook and mentor, providing invaluable insights and practical strategies that will inspire, empower, and guide readers on their leadership journey.
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This user-friendly book is filled with guidelines to help you write performance objectives, reviews, appraisals, and other performance documentation. The book's tips and tools help you find language that's clear, descriptive, objective, and acceptable in today's workplace. Examples, questions, and activities will help you learn on your own, with your team, or with others in your organization.
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Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing subordinates to parrying verbal attacks from colleagues, are so loaded with anger, confusion, and fear that most people handle them poorly: they avoid them, clamp down, or give in.
But dodging issues, appeasing difficult people, and mishandling tough encounters all carry a high price for managers...
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The most successful leaders are story¬tellers. By mastering business storytelling, they achieve extraordinary business results. As a modern-day leader, you know you should develop this skill, but you don't have the time to do this in an ad-hoc way. What you need is a practical, reliable method to follow, one that will allow your business to reap the benefits of storytelling as soon as possible. In Putting Stories to Work, Shawn Callahan gives you...
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¿Cómo se prepara la comunicación y se evitan los malentendidos también desde la comunicación? ¿Qué clima comunicativo se respira en nuestra organización? Un grupo de autores expertos en comunicación unen sus conocimientos en las páginas de este libro para construir un modelo interdisciplinar enfocado a desarrollar una competencial oral de repercusión.
Mucho más que hablar está escrito desde los ámbitos más diversos y por consiguiente...
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The Procurement Compendium is a collection of short articles relating to procurement and supply chain management, first published online via Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum websites. They aim to inform, provoke, occasionally educate and sometimes even amuse. Although procurement is the broad theme, topics range from Machiavelli's thinking on change management to "licensing the procurement profession" the James Bond way; from the reasons for David...
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Self-Publishing Your Book In Multiple Formats is designed to help writers take advantage of the many formats for publishing and selling books. It features an introduction to the different platforms and how to prepare and publish your manuscript in each format. By doing so, you can take advantage of the multiple approaches for selling your book to customers who like to read books in different ways. To this end, the book features the following topics:-...
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