Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness, Updated 2021 Edition

Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness, Updated 2021 Edition

by Alan Garner
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/08/2017

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Learn the secrets of effective communication from the most popular book in the world for teaching conversation skills – almost one million copies sold!


Fully updated for the 2020s, Conversationally Speaking provides proven communication strategies, based on hundreds of research studies, as well as the authors' own experience teaching conversation workshops. Now you can use this expertise to get more out of your everyday interactions with family, friends, and coworkers.


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. With Conversationally Speaking, you will learn how to:


Ask the kind of questions that promote conversation


Interest people in what you have to say


Achieve deeper levels of understanding and intimacy


Handle criticism constructively


Overcome shyness and become more confident


Listen so others will be encouraged to talk to you


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."

ISBN:
9781260117288
9781260117288
Category:
Memory improvement & thinking techniques
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
Alan Garner

Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, The Owl Service brought Alan Garner to everyone's attention.

It won two important literary prizes – The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal – and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.

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