Showing titles in Communication & Social Skills

Do you struggle with shyness or social anxiety? Does the fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected interfere with your day-to-day life, or keep you from social gatherings, seeking out friendships, and pursuing romantic relationships? Shame is a major driving force behind shyness and social anxiety, and it stems from the core belief that you are fundamentally flawed or unlikable. Over time, this belief can have a devastating impact on life, work, and relationships. So, how can you boost your confidence, courage, and self-esteem?

Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about one in five individuals, regardless of age or gender. Now, a world-renowned expert gives us a substantially updated and augmented edition of her classic work: drawing on an additional 15 years of cutting-edge research, offering new information on all aspects of dyslexia and reading problems, and providing the tools that parents, teachers, and all dyslexic individuals need.

In What's Your Story? Using Stories to Ignite Performance and Be More Successful, author, entrepreneur, professor and master story teller Craig Wortmann demonstrates the powerful impact stories have on the three most common performance challenges: leadership, strategic selling, and motivation. While the technique of telling stories is the oldest form of communication, it's also the one form that rises above the din of our information-saturated environment.

Good communiation is essential to any healthy relationship, whether it's between spouses, family members, friends, or co-workers. In this book Susan Chapman, a marriage and family therapist and a longtime meditation teacher, explains how mindfulness can be brought to bear in the way we speak and listen to each other so that we can strengthen our connections and better accomplish our goals.

In Control the Conversation, the authors guide you in crafting a response to a question, not just an answer. A response should be multidimensional and include relevant and compelling information that goes beyond a mere answer. The authors help you build and apply this skill set. You will learn how to manage the four areas of disclosure - people, places, things, and events in time. You will also develop competence in techniques that will help you take control and get your message across in any kind of interview.

Beginning firmly with teachers and all those working with students, including administrators and counselors, the Plum Village approach stresses that educators must first establish their own mindfulness practice since everything they do in the classroom will be based on that foundation. The book includes easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques perfected by educators to teach themselves and to apply to their work with students and colleagues, along with inspirational stories of the ways in which teachers have made mindfulness practice alive and relevant for themselves and their students.

This book is not just another public speaking and presenting skills book. It is not just a book of tips. This is the ultimate system for public speaking and presenting, whatever the situation.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Relaciònes Narcisistas and learn how to break the cycle of a toxic relationship.

Establishing clear personal boundaries is essential to creating and nurturing mutually respectful relationships based on equality. Setting limits can also protect you from getting involved in exploitative relationships, and help you avoid toxic personalities who don't have your best interests at heart. This evidence-based workbook will show you how to set healthy boundaries across all aspects of life - without sacrificing your kindness or compassion for others.

What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life? In this three-hour, conversational listen, you'll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills - validation.

We've all encountered them: the bullies, the wet blankets, the yea-sayers that never come through. More often than not, we're left fumbling for words, stumbling toward the door...frustrated, enraged or just plain depressed.

The 2018 updated version of the best-selling guide to boosting your emotional intelligence in order to live a happier, healthier, and more successful life. Emotional intelligence is an incredibly important and useful tool to understand but unfortunately it is also a subject that is often clouded in nonsense and useless jargon. Emily Porter has created an easy-to-follow book that gives you the information and tools you need to immediately start improving your life through emotional intelligence. Her no-nonsense guide has helped countless people around the world.

What happens when you learn to communicate better with everyone? No doubt you’ve had to endure a painfully awkward conversation, more than once in your life. Maybe it was a stranger, a colleague, or a date. Maybe it was a group discussion. You found yourself breaking a sweat, not knowing what to say. The more time passed, the more tense you became. You thought about all the communication books you’ve read in your life and wished you had them with you…to knock yourself unconscious as a way out of the conversation. The best thing about the whole situation was the moment it ended.

Do you know most men make texting girls far harder than it needs to be? And that it can be simple to text a girl you like out on a date? This easy-to-use, step-by-step guide shows you how to text a girl, what to text, and when to text it to her. If you're tired of "spin your wheels" texting advice, buy this audiobook. Its approach draws from 18 cutting-edge scientific studies on texting.

Manipulation and Dark Psychology Mystery Explained (2 in 1) is your ultimate guide to decoding the unseen tactics that shape human behavior. Whether you want to protect yourself from psychological manipulation or harness the power of persuasion ethically, this audiobook will give you the knowledge and strategies you need.

27 Ways to Win Arguments is your ultimate playbook to mastering the art of winning arguments. Packed with 27 battle-tested psychological techniques, you’ll gain the ability to persuade, influence, and defend yourself in any debate, whether it's a casual discussion or a high-stakes confrontation.

At the root of Joe's work is the understanding that despite the fact that we live in a high-tech world designed to organize and structure our lives down to the last detail, the world we live in is also out of control. Despite any illusions, we actually have no control over anything - except ourselves and the way we react to the events of our lives. Therein lies authentic power.

This solutions-oriented guide offers problem-solving and behavior-changing strategies for people working on their most intimate relationships. What distinguishes Intellectual Foreplay from similar titles is that it includes guidelines on what to do with the answers it gives. This makes it useful in both creating and sustaining a relationship.

Great storytelling is making listeners care about your characters, the choices they make, and what happens to them. It's making your audience feel the tension and emotion of a situation right alongside your protagonist. And to tell a damn fine story, you need to understand why and how that caring happens. Using a mix of personal stories, pop fiction examples, and traditional storytelling terms, New York Times best-selling author Chuck Wendig will help you internalize the feel of powerful storytelling.

¿Quieres ser más agradable? ¿O defenderte con estilo de los ataques verbales de otros? ¿O sencillamente enfrentar de mejor manera las conversaciones difíciles con tu pareja o en tu trabajo? Este es un audiolibro para aprender a ganar amigos y ser excelente en situaciones sociales. Se centra en tácticas y técnicas para ser más carismático, encantador y más ingenioso, lo que sin duda te permitirá hacer frente a cualquier reunión social sin esfuerzo. Aprenderás a tener una conversación sin desperdiciar tu tiempo, sin aburrirte y sin ofender a nadie.