OtherDianna Booher.
Summary: "The classic business communication guide--updated for smart phones, social media, and other digital platforms communicate clearly, tactfully, and confidently in any situation, including: being persuasive, running productive meetings, asking the right questions, coaching, negotiating, resolving conflicts, responding to insults, offering praise, delegating responsibilities, crossing cultural divides, networking at events. "Communicate with confidence! is ...the clearest, most comprehensive, and most credible guide to persuasive and authentic communication available today." --Publisher description.
Contents:
Introduction: communication is a life-or-death matter
Establishing your credibility
Conversing one on one
Making small talk a big deal
Winning people over to your way of thinking : being persuasive
Holding your own in meetings, but working as a team
Listening until you really hear
Asking the right questions without being intrusive
Answering questions so people understand and remember what you say
Saying no and giving other bad news without damaging the relationship
Apologizing (and accepting apologies) without groveling or grit
Giving feedback or criticizing without crippling
Taking the sting out of negative feedback or criticism leveled at you
Giving advice or coaching someone can really use
Getting advice or coaching that's helpful
Negotiating so everyone feels like a winner
Resolving your conflicts without punching someone out
Mediating others' conflicts without getting caught in the line of fire
Responding to insults, boasting, insensitivity, gossip, and other goofs hurled at you
Praising (and accepting praise) so your comments carry weight
Delegating and giving instructions so "nothing falls between the cracks"
Minimizing cross-talk between men and women
Crossing the cultural gulf
Syncing your body language with your words
Presenting yourself online through social media
Communicating common courtesy : etiquette matters.
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BioSciences Career Center Collection (Duck Room)
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