The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace - Hardcover

Perkins

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470247592 ISBN 13: 9780470247594

Verlag: Wiley, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The Art and Science of Communication shows you a new way to understand and use communication in the workplace. Revealing the seven types of communication we all use every day, the book shows you how to increase your communication effectiveness in any setting with practical techniques, analogies, and models that clearly explain the formulas for successful communication. Combining the science and art of communication into one effective formula, this book offers a straightforward and easy to understand plan for a more successful career.

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P.S. PERKINS is founder and CEO of the Human Communication Institute, LLC, and a graduate of the communication schools of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University. She has been training, lecturing, and developing communications curricula for more than twenty years. She is currently a featured writer for the magazines Personal Development and Diversity Works!, talk show host of InWORD OutWORD: Conversations About Communication, and a featured practitioner in the motivational film, Pass It On!

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Praises for The Art and Science of Communication

"In this fast-forward world, nothing is more critical than how and what you communicate. Pamela Perkins's new book is a priceless gem that provides the essence of how to win in your workplace. As her title suggests, communication is both an art and a science, and to get on top and stay on top, you need to internalize both."
&;Dr. Denis Waitley, author of The Psychology of Winning

"In the short time that I have come to know Pamela Perkins, she has served to redirect my course of action more than once when I?had a logjam in my ability to get my message across. She set my course right onto a path of perfection. Perkins?sees things, and she knows things about how we can be effective communicators.?She tells us how we can?avoid falling off the rails or miscommunicating with ourselves and others! Following her simple advice, I have created wealth where there was lack, hope where there was darkness, and I have learned to communicate with myself on a level of excellence I had never known before! This book is an essential tool kit for unplugging any communication blocks that threaten to dam up the flow of your life."
&;LuAn Mitchell, host of Millionaire Mentor on Voice America Internet Radio, and author, motivational speaker, and Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World honoree

"Pamela Perkins's new book does an excellent job of breaking down the process of communication to give a clear recipe for success."
&;Juan Williams, political analyst, FOX News and NPR

"As a professor of business management for over twenty years, whether teaching real estate law, business communications, or business law, communication is taught as a primary tool of operational efficacy. The Art and Science of Communication offers one of the most comprehensive models for communication management and effectiveness in theory and application."
&;S.M. Jefferies, JD, Professor, San Diego Mesa College

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Effective communication is the foundation of personal and professional success. The better you are at expressing yourself and understanding others determines where you'll go in life. The Art and Science of Communication introduces you to a new way of understanding and using communication in the workplace to achieve better results and greater professional success.

Communication specialist P.S. Perkins uses her exclusive Communication Staircase Model to bring together the seven arenas of communication that everyone engages in on a daily basis&;intrapersonal, nonverbal, interpersonal, group, public, mass, and intercultural communications. Using this model, as well as practical techniques, analogies, and formulas, Perkins teaches you how to become a more effective communicator in any setting, circumstance, or situation.

Mental preparation is an extremely important part of effective communication. Here you'll learn to improve and regulate your own messages and more accurately interpret the messages of others. In addition, you'll learn how to think and talk to yourself in a positive manner, enabling you to both convey the same positivity to others and receive it back from them.

Perkins merges the science of communication with practical, everyday communication occurrences within the workplace in an understandable, useful, and inspiring way. You'll master effective communication practices that achieve real results&;the results you want. Mastering the correct rules of effective communication among employees, employers, and coworkers will create success professionally and personally.

Everything we do or gain in life and all of our successes are, in reality, based on the quality and kind of communication we engage in with ourselves and others. Good communication creates a good life. Inspiring and motivational, The Art and Science of Communication holds the ultimate key to true success. This is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to master the art and science of communication for a more passionate, positive, and successful life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470247592
• ISBN 13: 9780470247594
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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