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Table of Contents

  1. Communication
  2. Communication at Work ?
  3. How to start a conversation
  4. Speaking & Listening
  5. Professional Speaking
  6. Body language-Non-verbal Communication

Communication

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Communicate With Confidence!

Book Description
Say The Right Thing-In Any Business or Social Situation! Each year thousands of executives pack Dianna Booher's seminars to learn to express themselves more clearly and confidently at work and at play. Now this master communicator has distilled over 600 of her proven speaking and listening tips into a single fast-access primer-one that can help you think on your feet, organize your ideas for impact, build credibility and loyalty, and instantly answer questions from customers... bosses......

 

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Messages: The Communication Skills Book

Ingram
Effective communication is essential to career success, stable family life, and personal happiness. Since its publication in 1983, Messages has become a proven standard in the field of books on communication skills, showing readers how to improve relationships and personal effectiveness by mastering the art of public speaking, body language, assertiveness, negotiating, and more.



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You'Ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard

Ingram
A groundbreaking approach to personal communication. This book examines how to persuade by winning emotional trust. Contains practical exercises to improve voice, posture, expressiveness, gestures, eye contact, and more. Endorsed by top executives. Photos.

 

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The Art of Communicating : Achieving...

Book Description
What Decker does in this small package is deliver a guide to developing a complete face-to-face personal style.

 

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Power Talk: The Art of Effective...

From the Publisher
Howard Rankin's forte is to provide valuable insights and practical advice on important subjects in a way that everyone can understand. He is expert at distilling scientific information, research and technical advice into readable and enjoyable books that work.

 
 
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Communication at Work

 

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How to Say It At Work: Putting Yourself...

Amazon.com
Jack Griffin argues that it's vital to sell yourself--and your ideas--every day. In How to Say It at Work: Putting Yourself Across with Power Words, Phrases, Body Language and Communication Secrets, he offers practical advice for making your case whether your target is a supervisor, colleague, subordinate, client, vendor, or lender. Part 1 has a self-test for evaluating your current skills and also includes a toolkit for improving your overall communication at work. Part 2 lists specifics for dealing with key individuals and includes helpful (and harmful) words, phrases, body-language strategies and other techniques that can help you be a better communicator at work. --Howard Rothman


 

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Managing Your Mouth : An Owner's Manual...

Reviewer: A reader from Roseville, CA United States
A great book on managing one of our best assets! As a manager, I found the book beneficial as it addresses the ramifications of poor communication. It addresses using body language combined with speech and/or silence. Considering "words and movement are the basis of communication" between co-workers, this book is essential in reminding all of us the joys of having and working with individuals who have "a better managed mouth".
 
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The Power of Speech

Amazon.com
In the breezily written but information-solid The Power of Speech: Effective Techniques for Dynamic Communication, speech teacher and performer Marie Stuttard offers a series of easily digested tips and drills that can help even the most reluctant oral communicator become a dynamic conversationalist. With 74 independent sections designed to be read in any order, The Power of Speech is packed with practical methods for avoiding common traps as well as advice on pacing, enthusiasm, preparation, and delivery. Stuttard's companion book,
The Power of Public Speaking, is geared more toward formal presentations before an audience.
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How to start a conversation

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The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start..

The Fine Art of Small Talk teaches you to:

*Start a conversation even when you think you have nothing to say
*Avoid foot-in-mouth disease
*Stable your shaky knees and dry your sweaty palms
*Prevent pregnant pauses and awkward silences
*Adopt listening skills that will make you a better conversationalist
*Approach social functions with confidence
*Feel more at ease at parties, meetings, job interviews, and trade shows
*Turn every conversation into an opportunity for success

 

 

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How to Start a Conversation and Make...

By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a great conversation with anyone anywhere! And you'll learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding conversation pitfalls. Packed with charts, hundreds of opening lines, real-life examples, FAQs, helpful hints, and solid professional advice, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends shows you how to:

 
bulletIdentify your personal conversational style
bulletTalk to people from other countries and cultures
bulletAvoid mistakes while on a mobile phone or on-line in chatrooms
bulletBoost your personal and professional speaking skills to the next level

 

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Conversationally Speaking

Book Description
More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides more ways to improve conversational skills by asking questions that promote conversation, learning how to listen so that others will be encouraged to talk, reducing anxiety in social situations and more.

 

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101 Ways to Improve Your Communication

Tom MacMurray, Management Consultant and Attorney
"Even though I've been speaking and communicating professionally for more than 25 years, almost every page of your book reinforces, refreshes and reintroduces me to great ideas and practices. My old law firm spent thousands of dollars on 'experts' who said they would fix the firm's employee problems. The firm would have been much further ahead to give each employee a copy of your book, a day off, and a big smile when they came back to work."


 

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The Pocket Guide to Making Successful...

Book Description
People admire those who seem to have the innate ability to enter an unfamiliar social situation and begin to engage others in conversation. These people seem to have what is often called "the gift of gab." Others wonder to themselves, "How do they do it?" The assumption that most people make is that the ability to make successful small talk (i.e. "the gift of gab") is somehow a natural ability that one is born with. The truth of the matter is that the ability to make successful small talk is not an innate ability but an acquired skill. And like any other acquired skill, it can be learned, enhanced, and perfected if you have the right information and the determination to do so. With this guiding philosophy, The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk is designed to provide you with all the information you'll need to learn, enhance, and perfect the skills necessary for making successful small talk
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Speaking and Listening

Why don't people listen?

 

 

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The Art of Talking So That People Will...

A reader, December 19, 1998
Awesome lessons in positive communication
I feel a need to write a review of this book for two simple reasons: Number one is that it has had a profound effect on my life regarding my self-image and effectiveness in dealing with others, and number two, it will do the same for you. 
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Professional Speaking

 

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Getting Started in Speaking, Training,..

Create a presentation that audiences want to hear Identify your market Establish yourself as an authority in your field Effectively sell yourself and win speaking engagements Set fees, write contracts, and handle other financial and legal aspects of the profession Promote yourself on the Internet Work with bureaus, agents, reps, and office assistants Boost your speaking income with information products

 

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Speak and Grow Rich

Ingram
This money-making guide explains the techniques and shortcuts used by today's top speakers; tells how to identify paid speakers' venues; how to pick good topics for speeches, gives guidelines for setting fees; how to book oneself, explores the ins and outs of working with speakers' bureaus; and more. Included are sample forms, such as fee schedules, audience survey sheets, brochures, speakers agreements, and engagement reminders.


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Secrets Successful Speakers: How You Can...

Ingram
How do highly paid professional speakers put magic and motivation into every talk? The executive director of Walters International Speakers Bureau, which represents over 20,000 professional and celebrity speakers, presents 11 easy steps to persuasive speaking. Includes anecdotes of well-known personalities. Illustrated.

 

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Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking...

If you know something that others will pay to know, that is the core. Not only do you strengthen that unique element of knowledge, you redefine and repackage that expanded core by the most appropriate of the many means

of information dissemination: articles, a book, talks, speeches, seminars, audio and/or video tapes, a newsletter, consulting, and more...

By sharing needed information one way it leads to sharing it by others, and the collective sharing further identifies you as the person, the perceived expert, to be sought for even further help, information, or direction in that area of inquiry.

Empire-Building By Writing And Speaking takes you through the process, from identifying the core knowledge to putting all of the means in motion.

 
 
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Money Talks

 

Ingram
When it comes to speaking for big money, bestselling author Alan Weiss knows what he's talking about. Popular on the pro circuit, he details all the steps on how to go from free speaking to big-fee speaking. Using tips and checklists, he shows how to target markets, develop speeches, set fees, improve platform skills, use high-tech tools, expand business, and fashion a "star" image. 15 illustrations.

 
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Marketing with Speeches and Seminars:.

Michael LeBoeuf, Ph.D., author of The Perfect Business
This book "is a comprehensive, clearly written, easy-to-follow manual for anyone who wants to sell their products/services through this medium."


 
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How Make It Big Seminar Business

Book Description
Turn your expertise into a seminar and earn extra income! If you've got a special skill or knowledge, then you've also got the makings of a profitable seminar or workshop! In How to Make It Big in the Seminar Business you'll find all the practical know-how you need to organize your talents as well as the key elements of successful seminar design, delivery, and promotion. No matter what your level of buinesss experience, you'll be able to: determine fees, methods of payment, and recover your
 
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How to Develop and Promote Successful...

 

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Well-known author and consultant Howard Shenson shows consultants, educators and trainers how to enter and flourish in the lucrative and fast-growing seminar business--an estimated 3-to-4 billion industry. Covers everything from choosing a topic and developing a program to targeting a market, pricing and promotion. Provides practical details on selecting facilities, writing brochures, advertising, using direct mail, add-on materials and much more. Features checklists, tables and sample forms that help make planning easy and efficient.

 
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Body language

 

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People-Reading: How We Control Others,

Both theoretical and practical, this book discusses the motivations behind peoples' manipulative behavior, both conscious and unconscious. It offers some advice for controlling or changing this behavior in others and in ourselves. Basically, people develop manipulative behaviors because these behaviors offer some kind of psychological reward. The way to undo these manipulations is to refuse to respond in such a way as to deny the reward that is expected. The book offers ways to do this, such as listening objectively, delivering a surprising response, holding back approval, etc. Also discusses such issues as blaming, discordance, marriage and divorce, children, alcoholism, etc. There are no ground-breaking ideas here, but the book accomplishes its aims in a very clear and accessible fashion, without psychological jargon.

 

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Reading People: How to Understand People..

Publisher's Weekly
[Dimitrius] provides a wealth of tips and strategies for ferreting out people's real viewpoints, motives and character traits.... Whether interviewing a baby sitter, meeting a new date or selecting a jury, this thorough, detailed guide of what to look for could probably improve anyone's ability at seeing and being seen.

 

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I Know What You're Thinking:

A practical and savvy guide for gleaning what people are really thinking by understanding the codes of communication –– verbal, facial, body language, and speech. This book helps readers fend off negative people and attract positive people."
––Gavin de Becker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Fear and Fear Less

 

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Teach Yourself Body Language

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More than 90 percent of all face-to-face communications are nonverbal. This "body language" can have a profound influence on how we respond to one another. Learn how to interpret these clues and use them to convey a positive personal and professional image.

 

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Signals : How to Use Body Language for...

The publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
"It's scientific fact that people's body gestures give away their true intentions. Every day you're confronted by hundreds of different motions that can mean anything from "get lost" to "terrific idea." You too send out signals whether you realize it or not. Now you can take advantage of the secrets of body language for that extra edge of confidence and control in any situation
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