Communication Skills

How to Win Friends & Influence People

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Dale Carnegie
• Narrated By Andrew MacMillan
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You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Kerry Patterson
• Narrated By Joseph Grenny
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Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people's lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them. Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

The Power of Body Language: An Ex-FBI Agent's System for Speed-Reading People

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Joe Navarro
• Narrated By Joe Navarro

Instantly discover what's really going on around you!Know the truth before you ever hear a word! Approximately 80% of communication is expressed nonverbally. When you know how to unlock the secrets of people's nonverbal cues, you'll always have the upper hand in any situation.

Effective Communication Skills

• ORIGINAL (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Dalton Kehoe

From asking a waiter for an unusual substitution to urging a service manager to get your car finished sooner to swaying your significant other toward a particular film or show, many of the decisions you make are decided by talking. And no matter why you engage in face-to-face talk, there's no way to insulate yourself from the dangers of miscommunication. These 24 mind-opening lectures are your chance to learn more about how you communicate verbally, the common problems you can encounter in doing so, and how you can improve your own effectiveness.

TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Chris Anderson
• Narrated By Chris Anderson, Tom Rielly, Kelly Stoetzel
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Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience's worldview. Done right, a talk is more powerful than anything in written form.

On Writing

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King
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In June of 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking along the shoulder of a country road in Maine. Six operations were required to save his life and mend his broken body. When he was finally able to sit up, he immediately started writing. This book - part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer - is the extraordinary result.

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Leil Lowndes
• Narrated By Leil Lowndes, Joyce Bean

What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Dale Carnegie & Associates
• Narrated By Robert Petkoff
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Celebrating the 75 anniversary of the original landmark bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, comes an up-to-the-minute adaptation of Carnegie’s timeless prescriptions for the digital age. Dale Carnegie’s principles have endured for nearly a century. Since its original publication in 1936, his timeless classic How to Win Friends and Influence People has gone on to sell 15 million copies. Now, introducing new listeners to Carnegie’s words of wisdom, comes How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age, a new guide for a new era.

Self-Esteem: Fast Proven Treatment for Recovery from Low Self-Esteem

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Jennifer Alison
• Narrated By Heather Tuya

Don't let low self-esteem rule your life - overcome it fast with easy practicable steps. Low self-esteem can affect every area of our lives. It can be a horrible curse to live with, but thankfully one that can be beaten. Dr. Jennifer Alison's Self-Esteem: Fast Proven Treatment for Recovery from Low Self-Esteem is a much-praised international best seller, thanks to its practical and easy-to-implement advice.

Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Marshall Rosenberg
• Narrated By Marshall Rosenberg

On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths, addressing our unrecognized needs and emotions, and honoring those same concerns in others. With this adaptation of the best-selling book of the same title, Marshall Rosenberg teaches in his own words.

How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 8 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Anne Curzan

Regardless of age or occupation, conversation can be tricky. But like it or not, it's one of the most important things you do on a daily basis. Successful conversations help you advance professionally and make, maintain, and deepen relationships. Moreover, research shows that talking, when done on a substantive level, is correlated with a feeling of happiness and general well-being.In just six lectures, Professor Curzan teaches you key strategies that can dramatically improve your ability to converse with anyone, from strangers to supervisors.

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.

The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Jack Schafer, Marvin Karlins
• Narrated By George Newbern
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The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends, whether you are on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioral Analysis Program, Dr. Jack Schafer developed dynamic and breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists and detecting deception. Now, Dr. Schafer has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day, but no less critical battle of getting people to like you.

Banned Mind Control Techniques Unleashed: Learn the Dark Secrets of Hypnosis, Manipulation, Deception, Persuasion, Brainwashing and Human Psychology

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Daniel Smith
• Narrated By Mysti Jording
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Mind control is a tool that one can use for good or evil purposes. It all depends on the type of mind control that is involved and the intent of the individual who wants to apply it. It also depends on whether the target or subject of mind control will benefit from it or is harmed. Nonetheless, mind control is a very intriguing and fascinating topic. The majority of us use some form of mind control such as persuasion or manipulation in our everyday lives to get what we want from others and to achieve our goals.

The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Be Quick, Be Interesting - Create Captivating Conversation

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Patrick King
• Narrated By Joe Hempel
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Learn conversational agility to think quickly on your feet, be incredibly smooth, funny, and clever - all at once. Goodbye awkward silences! No matter where you lie on the spectrum of awkward to engaging, witty banter is always the end goal - and it should be. Witty banter, and all the steps that lead to it, allows you to disarm and connect with anyone, immediately exit boring small talk mode, and instantly build rapport.

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Susan David
• Narrated By Claire Gordon-Webster
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Emotional Agility by Susan David, read by Claire Gordon-Webster. Every day we speak around 16,000 words - but inside our minds we create tens of thousands more. Thoughts such as 'I'm not spending enough time with my children' or 'I'm not good enough to present my work' can seem to be unshakable facts. In reality they're the judgemental opinions of our inner voices.

The Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By The Great Courses, John R. Hale
• Narrated By Professor John R. Hale

Being a great public speaker can put you on the pathway to success, whether you're looking to teach, inform, persuade, or defend an idea. Yet many of us live in fear of public speaking. As you'll learn in these 12 invaluable lectures, all it takes is confidence, practice, and the knowledge of techniques and strategies used by history's greatest public speakers. Whether you want to finally become the confident public speaker you've always wanted to be or are just looking for fresh advice on how to strengthen your skills, this inspiring course is packed with practical advice.

The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Hannah B. Harvey

An absolute treat for the heart and mind, these 24 lectures demonstrate how to master the art of storytelling, offering insight into the process of crafting and delivering a tale to enhancing the stories you tell everyday-to your children at bedtime, in your conversational anecdotes, and in your presentations at work. Teachers, lawyers, clergy, coaches, parents, and anyone who wants to understand the power of stories to capture hearts and minds will benefit from these lessons.

The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 20 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Michael Dues

In 24 lectures brimming with practical tips, tools, and techniques everyone can use to better manage conflict in his or her professional and personal lives, gain the essential skills of conflict management. As presented by Professor Dues, these lectures will show you how to effectively deal with conflicts of all kinds, using the "win-win" model that has dominated the field for the past six decades.

Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 40 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Jason M. Satterfield

We have all had experiences with people that prove that those with the highest IQs are not always the most successful. What could these very smart people be missing? Chances are it's emotional intelligence (EQ) - the ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions in ourselves and others. Sounds very powerful, doesn't it? Could we really manage our own emotions, as opposed to having our emotions run the show? Could we really effect change in the emotions of our coworkers or family members?

The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs Now

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Michael J. Gelb
• Narrated By Tom Parks

These days, many of us find it easier to avoid face-to-face contact in favor of technological shortcuts. Why take the trouble to meet someone in person when we can simply send an email or a text? But as Michael Gelb argues in this compelling book, the meaningful relationships that come from real interaction are the basis of success. In The Art of Connection, Gelb offers listeners seven methods of developing better rapport in their professional and personal lives.

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work - Anywhere!: A How-To Guide for Practicing the Empathic Listening, Speaking, and Dialogue Skills to Achieve Relationship Success

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Bento C. Leal III
• Narrated By Dalan Decker

Would you like to enhance your communication skills to grow and strengthen your relationships? If so, this book is for you. Four Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work - Anywhere! is an excellent how-to guide for practicing the key skills that will help you identify and overcome communication barriers and achieve relationship success with the important people in your life - your spouse or partner, your child or children, your parent, siblings, friends, co-workers, customers - everyone!

How to Analyze People: Become a Master in Reading Anyone Instantly

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By George Muntau
• Narrated By Commodore James

If there's a single most important skill you can pick up in today's globally connected and technically savvy world, it's the ability to analyze people. How do you determine a good fit for your organization while interviewing potential hires? How do you approach strangers? How about a crush or potential date? How do you build a stunning rapport with clients by diving into their head? Learning to read other people gives you a definite edge in terms of predicting behavior.

Mastering Stage Fright: How to Overcome Your Stage Fright and Conquer Performance Anxiety

• UNABRIDGED (36 mins)
• By Stephen Bryant
• Narrated By Greg Zarcone

Discover how to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety! Stage fright is something everyone will face at least a few times in their lives and, if not handled properly, can keep us from giving our best performance or presentation. Even worse, it can be the cause of long-lasting pain and embarrassment that comes after a terrible stage performance. Don't fall victim to stage fright or performance anxiety any longer! Take back control and perform at your best!

The How of Wow: A Guide to Giving a Speech That Will Positively Blow 'Em Away

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Tony Carlson
• Narrated By Don Hagen

For speakers who want to make their presentations more impressive than the tens of thousands of speeches delivered (and immediately forgotten) every day, The How of WOW offers a refreshing antidote to the usual formulas. The How of WOW offers hundreds of practical tips, techniques, and illuminating examples to help speakers at every stage of the speech process, from considering an invitation to speak to making sure that the message is remembered even after the speech is over.

Attachments: Why You Love, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Dr. Tim Clinton, Dr. Gary Sibcy
• Narrated By Christopher Solimene

The answer to why people feel and act the way they do lies in the profound effect of a child's bonding process with his or her parents. How successfully we form and maintain relationships throughout life is related to those early issues of "attachment". The author has cited four primary bonding styles that explain why people love, feel, and act the way they do. This book is for anyone who desires closeness, especially in the most intimate relationships: marriage, parenting, close friends, and ultimately God.

Body Language: Master Body Language & Non-Verbal Communication for Increased Influence in Relationships and at Work

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Steve Gold
• Narrated By Jimmy Allen Fuller

With studies showing that up to 70% of our communication is non-verbal, what you say is not nearly as important as the messages we all give off non-verbally. Despite this, most people are not consciously aware of their own body language or the body language of others. In this book we will look at: why body language exists; how we exhibit non-verbal communication through various parts of our body - the face, eyes, arms and legs - and how to read each; and much more!

Improve Your People Skills: Build and Manage Relationships, Communicate Effectively, Understand Others, and Become the Ultimate People Person

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Patrick King
• Narrated By Gregory Sutton

If you (1) have trouble connecting with people beyond small talk or (2) are often left speechless and dumbfounded on how to handle certain people and situations, that feeling of dread isn't something you have to live with. Improve Your People Skills is your key to social intelligence and the better relationships to enrich your life that will inevitably follow.

NLP: 12 Controversial Techniques to Gain Unlimited Power, Control over Others & Unstoppable Influence: Communication Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (45 mins)
• By Mark Von Eriksson
• Narrated By Trevor Clinger
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Discover the 12 controversial techniques to gain unlimited power, control over others, and unstoppable influence! We live in an era fraught with opposition, competition ready to take you down, and enemies waiting around the corner. NLP discusses the underlying mechanics and inner workings that facilitate how one can control their own mind and also the mind of others, whilst asserting influence over behaviors and thoughts to get more out of their life.

Say It Straight or You'll Show It Crooked

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Abe Wagner
• Narrated By Jarvis Hooten

What does "say it straight or you'll show it crooked" mean? In essence, it means that if I have a strong feeling or a desire, and I don't do something effective about it, I will end up, internally or externally, somehow demonstrating that feeling or desire in an ineffective manner. Unexpressed negative feelings and unfulfilled desires get acted out in ways that are inappropriate if we don't express or act on them in ways that are appropriate.

Get to the Point!: Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Joel Schwartzberg
• Narrated By Jeff Hoyt

In Joel's Schwartzberg's 10-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across - one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail - is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. This book shows you how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it and how to train others to identify and successfully make their own points.

From Painfully Awkward to Socially Successful: How You Can Talk to Anyone Effortlessly, Communicate on a Personal Level, & Build Successful Relationships

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 8 mins)
• By John S. Lawson
• Narrated By Matyas J.

Are you having problems communicating and connecting with people around you including your friends and family? Are you socially awkward in interactions with others and just wish that your social anxiety would leave you alone forever? Or are you feeling depressed because of the lack of social skills in your arsenal that is causing these unnecessary stresses in your life? In From Painfully Awkward to Socially Successful you will find the exact skills you need to break out of your shell and speak to others with confidence and a level of command.

You Get What You Pitch For: Control Any Situation, Create Fierce Agreement, and Get What You Want in Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Anthony Sullivan, Tim Vandehey
• Narrated By Anthony Sullivan

Pitching is about persuasion: radiating positivity, controlling the situation, winning an audience's trust, creating "fierce agreement", and getting them to want to give you what you're asking for. Written not just for a business audience, You Get What You Pitch For will approach the pitch as what it really is: a methodology for building productive, positive, mutually beneficial person-to-person interactions.

NLP: A Psychologist's Guide to Master Influence & Human Behavior Through Personal Mind Control

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Katherine Chambers
• Narrated By Joanne Trimble
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Most people traditionally train only the conventional aspects of their abilities, they focus on the technical skills of a task. However there is another layer, an emotional and behavioral set of factors which can really make the biggest impact on the results you can achieve. That is where neuro-linguistic programming comes in. NLP techniques are designed to help you tap into those top level mindsets when required. But most people aren't equipped with the right strategies or outlook on NLP to really make it work.

Human Psychology 202: Understanding How People Really Think So That You Know How to Deal with Them

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 47 mins)
• By Alan G. Fields
• Narrated By Jim D. Johnston

Humans are complex creatures. When confronted with all that life has to offer, they are still able to twist their thinking into negativity and self-defeating behavior. Why and how does that happen? To understand how people behave, it's important to be aware of how distorted thinking can undermine even the smartest people. Human Psychology 202 will teach you how thinking affects your actions and how to deal with frustrating people who refuse to examine, or change, their way of thinking.

Persuasion: 3 Manuscripts - Persuasion Definitive Guide, Persuasion Mastery, Persuasion Complete Step by Step Guide

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Ryan James
• Narrated By Miguel Rodriguez

Do you want to know exactly how to get the upper hand in conversations, debates, and negotiations? Do you desire the ability to persuade individuals as well as audiences? Persuasion is one of the most important skills to acquire and it is all around us. You are affected by it every day. Simple choices like the colors of a company logo influence the way you think. You may already practice persuasion without even realizing it.

How to Become the Best Teacher You Can Be: 7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 8 mins)
• By HowExpert Press, Rachel Sawyer
• Narrated By Joanne Trimble
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When we look back, we always remember those few amazing teachers that have made a positive impact in our lives. This book is written by a teacher who has impacted the lives of her students and has been termed the "favorite teacher" by many of her students. In this guide, you will learn how to become the best teacher you can be, impact the lives of students, and experience great fulfillment in your career of teaching. This book provides expert opinions, tips, and personal experiences on how to become a favorite teacher.

Tell Me About Yourself: Six Steps for Accurate and Artful Self-Definition

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 49 mins)
• By Holley M. Murchison
• Narrated By Holley M. Murchison

From artists to entrepreneurs, students looking for their first jobs to organizational leaders, public figures to speakers, Tell Me About Yourself helps everyone bolster confidence and authentic communication in life's most vulnerable moments. Treading on a proven six-step process, the founder and CEO of Oratory Glory, Holley Murchison, teaches you how to craft and deliver a comprehensive, compelling, and generally kick ass introduction.

Emotional Intelligence: Discovering Your Inner Emotional Intelligence in Your Relationship and Career

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By James Lee King
• Narrated By David Van Der Molen

Having a higher IQ does not ensure good results, pleasure, or even a good quality life, however until emotional intelligence, we were left guessing. James Lee King's book provides insights on our emotional way of thinking and how emotions play a role in who we are. Throughout this book, James discusses the emotional brain and you, and reveals the way they determine our failure or success in employment, relationships, and our overall well-being.

How to Torture a Narcissist: Narcissistic Revenge: Transcend Mediocrity, Book 203

• UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
• By J.B. Snow
• Narrated By D Gaunt

The narcissist is a force to be reckoned with. He has a nihilistic view of the world. He views his life as pointless. He has no religion, and most narcissists will actively consider themselves as being agnostic or atheistic. He has no guided purpose in his life. He is bored and listless. The only thing that gives a narcissist real pleasure is seeing other people in emotional pain, confusion, and suffering at his hands.