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  • Conversationally Speaking

  • Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
  • By: Alan Garner
  • Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
  • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (95 ratings)

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Conversationally Speaking

By: Alan Garner
Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
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Almost One Million Sold! Conversationally Speaking has become the most popular book in the world teaching conversation skills. Millions of people have used it to learn the secrets of effective communication. This revised edition provides more ways to improve your conversation skills by giving you strategies that work for starting conversations, asking questions that promote interaction, interesting people in what you have to say, listening so that others will be encouraged to talk, avoiding rejection-producing behavior, handling criticism constructively, and more.

Everybody thinks that some people are born with the "gift of gab" and some people aren't. But the truth is there is no "gift of gab." People who are good at conversation just know a few simple skills that anyone can learn. This book will teach you those skills.

Chapter 12 uniquely summarizes the life's work of famed psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis on overcoming shyness and becoming more confident - and does it so well it received praise from Dr. Ellis himself!

Find out why Toastmaster Magazine calls Conversationally Speaking "the classic how-to book in social communication" and why Dr. Aaron Beck, whose work has had a major influence on thousands of psychologists, calls it "of great value for people who want to sharpen their skills in interpersonal relations."

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A game changer!

This book was recommended by a great leader whom I admire and respect. It is packed with practical advice that you can use right now to improve your current relationships and develop new relationships quickly. It has truly been a great help to me. I will use these skills the rest of my life.

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G R E A T !

Great and practical information that anyone can practice today. I started trying up the methods right away and saw an instant improvement in my ability to create and sustain a flowing, easygoing conversations with the people around me

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Instructions that go to the point.

I loved the way examples are connected to stories and how these stories relate perfectly to situations that may happen to anybody, everyday.

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Great book

I was just expecting some good tips for starting and maintaining a conversation. But the book is filled with tips for just about every kind of communication need. Feelings, grievances, etc. I will definitely go through this one again

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PDF

Madame, Monsieur,
J’ai besoin des documents en formes pdfs pour que je puisse livre en plus.
Bien cordialement
MR BA
Daouda

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Excellent content

Solid. This book has a lot of useful information that is simple to digest and thorough enough to learn from has a ton of examples, but I found the last few chapters, the most beneficial and informative. This is the type of writing that can be enjoyed multiple times and you can still learn from it.

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Terrible

A useless book but I started it so I had to finish. I would recommend Steve Aarnio instead or Dr Peterson

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Algunos insights y poco más

Me gusta que da algunas buenas herramientas para iniciar conversaciones pero se siente como un libro con ideas para otra generación.

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Basic and Dry

This was not only the ABC crash course of communication that I’ve received from every sales training and customer service job I’ve ever worked, but I found the author to be egotistical in the first five minutes boasting about the success of this book, when once upon engaging in listening, I was bored to tears, hoping to sharpen my conversation skills only to be left disappointed in elementary conversation tips.

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A great first book for someone just learning effective communication

Very basic techniques
The narrator did not have his best work here. I can hear he has great potential and hopefully he learned many lessons in this venture as to how to bring it out. Overall this is a good beginner book

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