How to Talk So People Listen - Tapa blanda

Repackage of this excellent book about improving your communication skills. All the advice you need to make sure people really listen to what you are saying.

Do any of these situations sound familiar?

· have you ever left a meeting knowing you haven’t made your point effectively?

· do you sometimes find it difficult to understand your business associates and meet them halfway?

· do high-powered encounters with the boss simply put you on the defensive?

This classic self-help guide is packed with invaluable advice to help you in all these situations so that both you and your listeners achieve maximum results from any encounter.

· Have you ever come away from a meeting knowing that you haven’t made your point effectively?
· Have you ever made a presentation and felt audience attention slipping away?
· Do you sometimes find it difficult to understand your business associates and met them halfway?
· Do high-powered encounters with the boss simply put you on the defence?

If any of these problems sound familiar, then 'How To Talk So People Listen' is full of the advice and help you need. You can identify what your listener wants from an encounter, and ensure that everyone gets the best possible results. Find out the best time to hold meetings – to lunch or not to lunch? – or how to gain prior knowledge of audiences and motivate them through self-interest.

This book exposes our preconceptions about communicating in the workplace and brings a new, highly effective dimension to this complex world. Sonya Hamlin is an EmmyAward-winning chat show host and heads her own communications consultancy – she has acted as an advisor to the chief executive officers of such companies as American Express and Polaroid.