Business Development Skills

If you want to improve your conversational skills - and achieve greater levels of personal and professional success - The Art of Talking to Anyone is the ultimate book. Rosalie Maggio has built a career on teaching people how to say the right thing at the right time - and she's made her techniques available to you.

Social skills don’t come easily to everyone. But with the right guidance, you can shape yourself into the person you want to be. No matter what your starting point is, you can attract the people you want to talk to, become the most likeable person in a room, and build positive relationships that last a lifetime. All you need is a solid blueprint to follow, and that’s exactly what you’re about to uncover in this insightful audiobook.

Use this guide to storytelling as a sturdy foundation to change how you use stories. You can build solid stories to support your goals in business and life. The provided examples are from some of the world's greatest speakers, storytellers, with advice from leading experts. From best-selling authors to generation-changing motivational speakers, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals of outstanding storytelling. It will help you deliver stories to audiences that will leave them personally affected and motivated.

Do you wish to know the secrets to influence people’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior? Do you wish that you could easily win over friends and leverage your relationships to get what you want? The solution to these problems is to learn the insidious persuasion techniques that are used by some of the most successful people in the world. Psychology of Persuasion is full of tricks and techniques that will have an immediate and tangible impact on your ability to influence people.

The Power of Body Language is your practical, personal playbook for getting what you desire from others—and zoning in on what others are saying to you without words. In an insightful and engaging narrative peppered with fascinating facts, nationally renowned body-language expert Tonya Reiman illuminates the hidden meaning behind specific gestures, facial cues, stances, and body movements, giving you a life-changing, career-saving, troubleshooting skill.

Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and Thomas Lys draw on the latest advances in psychology and economics to provide new strategies for anyone shopping for a car, lobbying for a raise, or simply haggling over who takes out the trash. Getting (More of) What You Want shows how inexperienced negotiators regularly leave significant value on the table - and reveals how you can claim it.

The 7Cs Compass for Conflict Resolution offers a groundbreaking approach to help you arrive at the best possible outcome for conflict you are facing. The process turns adversaries into partners to confront problems jointly.

A self-empowerment guide to achieving your fullest professional and personal potential, Don’t Take Yes for An Answer explains why positive feedback limits personal and professional growth and then teaches you how to embrace hard truths and critical feedback to escape mediocrity and break away from the pack. To stand out, attract the attention of those who can raise your profile, protect yourself during lean times, or gain the interest of future employers, you must harness three critical communication traits that human beings respond to most: AWE: Authority. Warmth. Energy.

Es completamente normal ponerse nervioso cuando tenemos que hablar en público, especialmente cuando se trata de una audiencia relativamente numerosa. Sin embargo, a veces este tipo de ansiedad puede provocar síntomas físicos como sudoración, temblor de manos, taquicardia, tartamudez, visión borrosa o dificultad para respirar, entre otros. No podemos permitirnos esto si tenemos que hablar ante una audiencia numerosa - física o virtual -, o si no queremos que nuestra carrera profesional se resienta.

Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. In You're It, the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University takes you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nation's leaders - from how to mobilize during a hurricane or in the aftermath of a bombing to halting a raging pandemic. They also take listeners through the tough decision-making inside the world's largest companies, hottest startups, and leading nonprofits.

Conflict at Work will show you how to step up to difficult issues and conflicts and get the results you need and want. Conflict at Work is different from any other self-help book because it provides you with an array of tools. You can build a plan that fits you perfectly and I promise that if you do, you will get the results you need and want. People miss opportunities every day to win at work. You don’t have to be one of those people. You can begin now living with less stress and performing at your best.

Mastering the Art of Oral Presentations is your expert guide to delivering memorable and effective speeches and presentations. Whether selling a product, offering a service, or bidding for a contract, your oral presentation skills can often determine success or failure. This invaluable resource delivers real-world advice and proven strategies to elevate your game and close the deal. Comprehensive coverage of preparation procedures, delivery techniques, and presentation strategies provide you with the tools and knowledge to motivate and persuade your audience.

The people we surround ourselves with may impact our lives more than any other factor, yet most people leave their social lives to chance. What would happen if you treated social skills as though they were indeed skills and became proactive about your social life? Superhuman Social Skills is a transformative book that analyzes and explains how to be likeable, how to converse, how to tell stories, how to make friends, and how to combine those friends to create an incredible social circle.

Through personal stories drawn from 16 years as a CEO of five different professional baseball teams, almost two decades of communication coaching experience, and thorough research, Skip Weisman provides insights, ideas, tips, tools, and specific communication techniques for each of these Seven Deadliest Communication Sins. This book will give you the edge you need to put the odds back in your favor and build relationships that can accelerate results in your life, business, and career. It’s time to raise your standard of communication.

This book is about coping with the crazy people at work. It is a serious book with funny stories. The book has 10 rules of survival. Rule # 1 Crazy People Make You Crazy is the foundation of all of them. The rules allow you to identify and then avoid crazy people and crazy situations. This is not a get rich or get sex or self-help book. This is about getting your life focused on what is truly important.

Through his Persuasion Institute, Kurt Mortensen has sought out and studied the Persuasion IQ (PQ) of the world’s top influencers. Now, in this game-changing guide, he’s leveraging his vast knowledge to teach listeners the essential habits, traits, and behaviors necessary to cultivate their natural persuasive abilities. Concentrating on the 10 major Persuasion IQ skills, the book provides listeners an opportunity to assess their own PQ, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and start down a path to enormous success and wealth.

Whether you're making a formal presentation, wooing a client, closing a sale, or proposing an idea, persuasive communication can make the difference between success and failure. Well Said! shows listeners how to put themselves in their audience's shoes and tailor their message to the needs of decision makers. It reveals simple but powerful techniques anyone can use to prioritize, organize, and economize their words so that their communications are concise, clear, and - most importantly - convincing.

We all want to have our message heard. In Bang! Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tell us how. They and their talented colleagues are the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the enormously successful AFLAC duck to the irresistibly sentimental "Kodak moment" to Herbal Essences' outrageous "Totally Organic Experience." Kaplan Thaler and Koval offer savvy advice and proven strategies for getting out a loud, clear, attention-grabbing message about any product or service.

Once upon a time, people wrote fables featuring untrustworthy ravens, wicked wolves, insincere monkeys, and power-hungry lions. Told repeatedly through generations and spread throughout the world, classic stories abound in which noble heroes and heroines matched wits with these typically treacherous beasts. But what's that you say? You feel as though you're surrounded by just these sorts of characters at work? Well, you're not alone.

Fierce Conversations is the master guidebook to transforming the conversations that are central to your success, offering a new way of relating to people - at work, at home, and in every area of your life.