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How to Talk to Anyone at Work: 72 Little Tricks for Big Success Communicating on the Job

How to Talk to Anyone at Work: 72 Little Tricks for Big Success Communicating on the Job


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From the bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone comes a book dedicated to helping business professionals at any level communicate for success on the job


You face tough communication challenges every day at work, both in person and online—a toxic boss, backstabbing coworkers, office politics, and much more. Here are immediate, effective, eye-opening actions you can take to resolve those infuriating problems. You will find stories and examples drawn from corporate communications consultant Leil Lowndes’s more than 20 years of training business professionals, from entry-level new hires to CEOs. To succeed today, you must exhibit these crucial qualities, the 5 Cs:


CONFIDENCE 
10 ways to show your boss and colleagues you are 100 percent self-assured and can achieve whatever you want—and reinforce this image throughout your entire working relationship


CARING  
14 strategies to demonstrate you care about your colleagues and the company because “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” 


CLARITY 
12 techniques to get your ideas across clearly—and ensure you understand everybody you work with


CREDIBILITY
14 methods to win the trust and respect of everyone at your company—and impress people who find you on the web 


COEXISTENCE (WITH CRUEL BOSSES & CRAZY COLLEAGUES)
21 tactics to confront the number one workplace nightmare and come out shining


Plus one final astonishing technique to guarantee success and happiness in your professional life. After you’ve mastered the unique “bag of little tricks” in this book, you will know How to Talk to Anyone at Work!






Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments

Introduction


Part I: Confidence


1. Your Confidence (or Lack of It) Stands Out Like a Fly in the Sugar Bowl


2. Your First Move


3. How to Look Dynamic All Day Long


4. Big Thinkers Move Big


5. You Are So Much More Than Your Job Description


6. What's Your On-the-Job Face?


7. Your Biggest Confidence Barometer


8. A Crafty Way to Calculate Their Confidence--and Convince Them of Yours


9. How to Sound Self-Assured in E-mail and IM


10. Can You Be Too Confident?


Part II: Caring


11. Treat Their Ego Like Eggshells


12. Is the Sincere Smile and Oxymoron at Work?


13. Track Them with Your Torso


14. Don't Give Hit-and-Run Praise


15. "Good Eye Contact" Is Not Enough!


16. How to Establish Rapport Without Sacrificing Your Principles


17. Is It Better to Be Liked or Respected at Work?


18. E-mail Amity


19. Can You Be Too Nice at Work?


20. Should You Have Close Friends at Work?


21. A Primal Need


Part III: Clarity


22. How to "See" What They're Saying


23. Make Their Words Your Words


24. It's a "Communication Problem"! Duh


25. Put Some Life in Your Listening


26. Communicating in a Shrinking World


27. Talking to the Opposite Sex (Now That's a Foreign Language!)


28. How to Make Complicated Concepts Clear


29. Time Is Money, Especially at Work


30. Shorter Is Sweeter--and Clearer


31. Kick But


32. What's the Weather Got to Do with Success?


Part IV: Credibility


33. The World Sees You as the Web Sees You--So Watch Out!


34. Truth or Consequences (the Consequences Can Be Huge)


35. Another Integrity Wrecker


36. When a Little Lie is Unavoidable


37. When You're Late to Work


38. Come Out Smelling Like a Rose When You're Guilty as Heck


39. Make Presentations to Gain Credibility


40. Professional Speakers' Secrets


41. Convincing Coworkers to See Things Your Way in Meetings


42. Grammar Snobs Can Kill Careers


43. Are You Credible? (or Just, Like, Credible?)


44. How to Lose Credibility Fast


45. The Mind Does Not Belong in a Cage (but Sometimes You're Trapped)


Part V: Coexistence (With Cruel Bosses and Crazy Colleagues)


46. Is This the Section You've Been Waiting For?


47. The Hypercritical Bully Boss


48. When Your Boss Goes Ballistic


49. Get It in Writing--Your Own!


50. Is Your Boss a Control Freak, or a Freak out of Control


51. Does Reporting a Problem to HR Help?


52. When Your Blood Starts to Boil


53. When You're Unjustly Accused


54. When You're Justly Accused (i.e., Guilty)


55. Get What You Want from Busy Bosses


56. Wouldn't Work Be Great If It Weren't for the People? 


57. Gagging Coworkers You Can't Stand


58. Gossiper's Friend Today Is Gossiper's Victim Tomorrow


59. How to Skillfully Squash Interrupters


60. How to Disagree Without Declaring War


61. Before Telling a Coworker Anything


62. Don't Bite the Hand That Signs Your Paycheck


Part VI: Conclusion


63. The Office of Tomorrow


64. Understanding the Human Animal


Bibliography




About the Author :
Leil Lowndes is an internationally acclaimed communication consultant. A frequent guest on radio and TV, she is the author of six books.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781260108439
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
  • Publisher Imprint: Mcgraw-Hill Education
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1260108430
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 502 gr


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