Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness - Softcover

Garner, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565656296 ISBN 13: 9781565656291

Verlag: Lowell House, 1997

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Learn the secrets of effective communication from the most popular book in the world for teaching conversation skills – almost one million copies sold!

Fully updated for the 2020s, Conversationally Speaking provides proven communication strategies, based on hundreds of research studies, as well as the authors' own experience teaching conversation workshops. Now you can use this expertise to get more out of your everyday interactions with family, friends, and coworkers.

Everybody thinks that some people are born with the "gift of gab" and some people aren't. But the truth is there is no "gift of gab." People who are good at conversation just know a few simple skills that anyone can learn. This book will teach you those skills. With Conversationally Speaking, you will learn how to:

Ask the kind of questions that promote conversation

Interest people in what you have to say

Achieve deeper levels of understanding and intimacy

Handle criticism constructively

Overcome shyness and become more confident

Listen so others will be encouraged to talk to you

Find out why Toastmaster Magazine calls Conversationally Speaking "the classic how-to book in social communication" and why Dr. Aaron Beck, whose work has had a major influence on thousands of psychologists, calls it "of great value for people who want to sharpen their skills in interpersonal relations."

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Amanda Goodwin Caporaletti is an expert in interpersonal communication. She has taught communication skills to thousands of students as an Associate Teaching Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

Alan Garner is a nationally-known communications consultant. He has taught hundreds of Conversationally Speaking workshops, and more than 5 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide.

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"To be successful, you have to connect with people, and Conversationally Speaking is the best book on how to do that.  Period.  Within a month after reading it, I used its simple tools to sign a major client.  So Buy It.  Now!"    

-- Don Passman, Lawyer and Author of All You Need to Know about the Music Business

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lowell House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565656296
• ISBN 13: 9781565656291
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar