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,...

Freeman takes an entertaining look at the nature of correspondence through the ages, considers the consequences of email overload, and enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.

A psychologist shares his insights for aligning speech and action with the heart's purest intentions, including how to use empathy to defuse stressful situations and accessing our natural compassion to create honest, nurturing relationships.

Shows readers the steps to the fundamental social skills of accepting "no" and disagreeing appropriately. When RJ learns to use these skills the right way, he finds that rewards come his way, instead of arguments.

Shows how we can better navigate difficult conversations and find easier ways to communicate through the art of civil discourse. "In I'm Just Saying, author Milan Kordestani shows us that although challenging conversations can be unpleasant, they can also help us grow. Sometimes, people inspire us to change how we speak, making us better communicators in the process as we search to find common ground with those with whom we disagree. Kordestani uses...

What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations-just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries all over the world. On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths, addressing our unrecognized needs...

Demonstrating how to actually talk about sex, a sex therapist and her husband cover the five essential conversations every couple needs to have, sharing their successful advice and tried-and-tested tools for creating an extraordinary sex life. Why is it so hard to talk about sex, even with the person who regularly sees you naked? Demonstrating how to actually talk about sex, the Marins cover the five essential conversations every couple needs to...

"Existen momentos claves en los que una palabra o un gesto nos pueden acercar o alejar irremisiblemente de nuestros objetivos. Conversaciones criticas le ofrece las herramientas para dirigir las conversaciones mas dificiles e importantes, decir lo que piensa y ser convincente. Con este libro aprendera a: - Preparse para situaciones de gran relevancia mediante una tecnica eficaz - Alcanzar un dominio suficiente que le permita hablar de practicamente...

"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand -- some by intuition, some by hard-won experience -- that there is a science...

All Sophie wants for her birthday is a pet giraffe, but as she tries to convince different members of her rather complicated family to support her cause, each tells her she is using too many words until she finally hits on the perfect one. Includes glossary.