Communication Development

Powerful Conversations

Phil Harkins

Each conversation you have, whether business or personal provides you with an opportunity to advance you agenda, increase your learning, and develop relationships. To maximize your impact in your conversations is not a natural skill. Mastering this ability is the focus of this book. You can gauge your success by asking,

• Did my conversation “advance my agenda?”
• Did my conversation “increase my learning?”
• Did my conversation “increase others‘ growth?”
• Did my conversation “advance the relationship?”

How to Speak Like a Pro

Leon Fletcher

If you are looking for sound and fundamental principles to guide your public speaking, this book is the one you’ll want to read. Just because its content is foundational doesn’t mean that the most skilled presenters cannot refresh and refine their abilities from reading this book.

Crucial Conversations

Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny

Handling the high-stake situations is a special talent. Tools to learn how to manage yourself and your situation when times are difficult and important is a skill set one cannot afford to be without in their professional life.

In the Line of Fire

Jerry Weissman

The Q & A time is a critical factor of any presentation or conversation. This book teaches not only the fundamentals of this time, but it addresses those times when you are under fire from your audience. Knowing how to respond in highly emotional situations is a skill everyone can improve on.

Presentations

Daria Price Bowman

This book demonstrates proven techniques for creating presentations that get results. In today’s business world it is important to learn how to be effective in small groups as well as large groups. This book will teach you how to organize and perfect your delivery, involve your audience, and select visual aids that relevant to your audience.

Power Talk

Sarah McGinty

Language is important if you want to build authority and influence in your conversations. How do you talk or sound when you open your mouth? It is important to recognize this. Listen sometime to yourself and “hear” how you come across to others. Finding the right speech pattern, right words and right voice is critical for success.

The Leader’s Guide to Story Telling

Stephen Denning

To learn this art is important in today’s business settings. We have too many facts and are drowning in information. Those who are smart enough to gain our attention with stories will be the best communicators. Stories help us handle the difficulties of leadership, enable us to create motivation, build team work and lead people to a higher level of understanding.