Business Communication Essentials

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful.

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious listening that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101 is an easy-to-understand road map of today's complex business world.

Whether you are forced to negotiate a high-pressure business deal or confront an angry family member, within the chapters of this book you will learn how to manage your emotions and quickly process information during stressful situations. You will learn how to effectively read your counterparts and how to decipher their words and body language. This book will properly prepare you for conflict and how to effectively use these skills in multiple real-world situations.

Have you noticed that on some days, everything seems to go so smoothly? Those times when everybody shares the same deadline and all of a sudden everything gets done. What’s going on here? What’s different in these scenarios? At the core of each situation is a replicable occurrence, a behavior pattern, or a trend you can understand and utilize. In fact, with just a little bit of heightened awareness and increased focus on your situation, you can pinpoint these exact patterns and recreate them at will.

Is talking to others your Achilles' heel? Do you dread having to talk to your boss or show a presentation at a meeting? Is your lack of public speaking skills holding your career back? If so, Crucial Communication: Control Difficult Workplace Conversations Using Essential Dialogue Tools to Achieve Positive Results More Often is the right book for you! This book will show you real-life communication techniques so that you feel more comfortable talking to people at work, in different social settings, and more!

This is the go-to guide on working with anyone in your office - from the difficult or negative to the toxic and destructive - whether they are your manager, a team member, or someone who’s just waiting out the clock. Chock-full of useful advice that will make your workday happier and more productive.

Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension, or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals.

Meeting strangers at a party, alone in the elevator with the CEO, declining a second date because the first was a disaster - social situations apply a lot of pressure to do and say the right thing. 50 Essential Etiquette Lessons shows you the best way to approach these common challenges with confidence and ease. Never mind putting your pinkies up when you drink tea - this guide is packed with modern examples of how to handle any sticky situation.

In 2020, the world as we knew it changed. For close to two years, people were socially isolated. Many of us lost the art of human face-to-face connections that lead to the development of close intimate relationships. In Relational Intelligence, Dr. Adam C. Bandelli outlines the five essential skills that can help you reconnect with others and build strong, long-lasting relationships. Drawing on research from the fields of psychology, sociology, and behavioral science, he explains why these skills are necessary tools for building a life of joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment.

This business English guide is the fifth of five workbooks for the book, 99 Essential Business Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. With this self-study ESL guide, you will be able to test your knowledge of common business English idioms and phrasal verbs - and immediately see the correct answer after each question. All questions are business-related to help you learn the best ways to use each idiom or phrasal verb in a business environment.

Do you want your audience to remember, repeat and respond to your speeches? Make your speeches sound like music to their ears. After all, speeches are meant to be listened to, not read. More importantly, speeches are meant to be remembered and move people to take action. What’s more pleasant to the ear than music? What’s easier to remember than music? What can move people the way music does?

In today’s divided world, a lot of people feel helpless and frustrated in various situations where they have to deal with other people and their strong opinions. Think about the heated political climate right now, to the point that families don’t talk to each other anymore. Wouldn’t you like to spend future holidays with your whole family? And enjoy it? Effective Communication: 5 Essential Tips and Exercises to Improve How You Communicate is your comprehensive, go-to guide to improve your communication effortlessly and get your message across effectively in any scenario.

In a business world that spans several continents, it is no longer common for everyone to speak English as a first language. Whether you speak English as a first, second, or even third language, intercultural business communication means that getting it right first time has never been more important for you and your organization. English can never be standardized in the global and digital marketplace; instead, we can learn how to customize business English according to our own values and culture and communicate successfully across borders.

This audiobook is a primer on the most essential soft-skills that you can, or rather should, learn to help you in your career progression and professional growth. As more and more jobs get standardized, automated, or disrupted with the onslaught of technologies, these skills will give you a consistent and constant advantage amongst your peers.

It's amazing the misinformation found in most résumé books! Scott Bennett has hired hundreds of people in a variety of industries, and he knows firsthand what kind of résumé sparks an employer's interest - and which ones fail. In The Elements of Résumé Style, he warns against popular "tricks" that tend to backfire - and instead informs listeners how to craft clear, compelling, targeted résumés and cover letters that actually work.

As an entrepreneur, your success depends on business communication skills. Whenever you make a powerful business presentation, deliver a winning pitch, or ace your business meeting, you have the potential to deliver a shot of financial adrenaline to your passion project. You can get the money you need to launch a startup, develop a business idea, or put investment capital to work and make investors happy. But what do you do when the rules of the game change?

Essential Guide to Public Speaking for Beginners has been created to suit your objectives by providing you with simple, effective, and easy-to-follow tips and tricks about public speaking. So many of us suffer from the fear of speaking in public to a large audience. It can be extremely daunting to think about and can result in all sorts of feelings of panic and anxiety about what might go wrong.

The best candidates for a job aren’t necessarily the most gifted. They don’t have some secret formula for having an amazing interview. Their key to success is being prepared. They research and find out what questions are most often asked and they get ready to answer those questions. This audiobook includes two books: Job Interview: Prepare to Get Hired and Job Interview: Will These Mistakes Cost You the Job? In this book, you'll learn exactly what to do and not do if you want to get the job.

Learn public speaking essentials that will make you a respectable speaker. Imagine you speaking with authority and your audience members are just enjoying listening to you. Ramakrishna Reddy, presents this super simple guide that'll help transform you into a respectable speaker.

Leadership is hard and can be overwhelming. We get triggered, hijacked and derailed under pressure. We overreact. We say something we regret. Sometimes we don’t say what we should. We struggle to recover. We feel perplexed by the emotional and relational complexities of leadership. We wonder whether we’re doing the right things in the right way.