Showing titles in Meetings & Presentations

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration.

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke's innovative concept of Contact Marketing - using personalized campaigns to create alliances with executive assistants and reach the elusive VIPs who can make or break a sale, with response rates as high as 100 percent - has helped professionals around the world open more doors in their careers and reach new heights of success. Now, Heinecke shares the latest tips, tools, and tactics to help listeners break through to their top accounts in the most effective ways possible.

Discover the Secrets To Becoming a Highly Effective Communicator and Become a Master of Public Speaking! Through this book, you will develop the skill set necessary to be effective at communicating in professional settings.

Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results. You'll develop an understanding of the skills for holding a REAL conversation, including both the "said" and the "unsaid" elements present in any conversation; discover the framework for preparing and holding difficult yet meaningful conversations; and learn to no longer avoid the tough conversations they need to have.

Are you a presenter searching for a blueprint to wow bosses and clients? Longing to convey information in a long-term and meaningful way? Do you have great ideas but struggle to move peers to action? As the world's only economist turned Bollywood-dancing business storyteller, bestselling author and speaker Yamini Naidu busts the myth that X factor is something you are born with or exclusive to a handful of lucky people. And now she's here to help you find and unleash your own X factor so you can forever change how you present, make a lasting impact, and create shifts in your world.

Panel discussions are a mainstay of events, from huge in-person conferences to small online networking meetings. So if you've got the job of moderating one, or being a panelist yourself, it makes sense to learn how to do it exceptionally well, from a professional. In this expert guide, former BBC TV presenter, professional moderator and award-winning speaker Penny Haslam, shares her vast experience. Whether you've got experience or are new to panels, this audiobook covers every aspect so you can be a roaring success.

Speaking to Influence is all about helping you understand how the way that you speak has a powerful effect on your ability to influence your surroundings, your relationships, your reputation, and your potential to succeed. If you feel stuck, like you’ve hit a plateau in life then this audiobook will show you how to take a step back and assess how your current style of communication is keeping you from achieving the results you want and maximizing your powers of influence.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Truth by Hector Macdonald, read by Simon Ludders. For fans of Nudge, Black Box Thinking and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which ‘competing truths’ shape our opinions, behaviours and beliefs. True or false? It’s rarely that simple. There is more than one truth about most things. Eating meat is nutritious, but it’s also damaging to the environment. The Internet disseminates knowledge, but it also spreads hatred. As communicators, we select the truths that are most useful to our agenda.

There's no question that executive-level conversations are difficult ones. When we surveyed managers about executive conversations, 90 percent said these conversations are harder, and an overlap of 20 percent said that they are significantly harder. Executives are a tough audience. Luckily they are also a predictable one.

Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must.

Questa unità didattica è dedita alle abilità di comunicazione e public speaking. È la prima di una serie di moduli relativi alle competenze manageriali e di strategie d'impresa, ritenute necessarie ed essenziali per lo sviluppo e la crescita di ciascun manager o imprenditore. L'unità si propone di guidare l'ascoltatore in un percorso di scoperta dei principali modelli di analisi e progettazione della comunicazione, attraverso file audio dedicati alla teoria della comunicazione, uno spazio di approfondimento su applicazioni pratiche della comunicazione manageriale.

Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, chances are there's one task you really dislike: giving performance reviews. Even if you know the basic points you want to get across, finding the right words and committing them to paper is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. But this handy little audiobook puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips.

Learn a step-by-step process for how to become a professional speaker and earn paid speaking engagements. The author and narrator Dr. Kevin Snyder has keynoted speeches and training programs for over 1,000,000 people through 1,150+ audiences in all 50 states and numerous countries. In this audiobook, Kevin shares his blueprint for where to start in professional speaking and how to organize a successful business in speaking.

Your ability to speak confidently and persuasively is your most important asset. It helps you connect with people, share the ideas you're most passionate about, and realize your dreams. This updated guide provides easy-to-learn skills that will take your speeches and presentations to the next level, so you enjoy public speaking more and make everything you say more memorable.

11 Deadly Presentation Sins combines lessons from the worlds of business and entertainment to help you give the performance of your life. You'll learn from Seth Godin and Star Trek, Romeo & Juliet and Ricky Gervais, Steve Jobs and Saturday Night Live. Whether you're talking to colleagues, customers, or the community, in a boardroom, ballroom, or church basement, you'll come away with the confidence and skills you need when all eyes are on you.

Two of the biggest obstacles to business success are poor communication and poor relationships between team members and leaders. Most don’t realize this, and even fewer have the tools to solve these problems. You don’t have to be most leaders. Intelligent Huddles shows you how to plan, implement, and run daily huddles to improve communication and effectiveness in any organization. Andrea Hemmer uses her in-depth knowledge of neuroscience and expert communication techniques to deliver a brilliant new framework for the daily huddle.

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary quickly became a bestseller in its category back in 2015. Now, in this updated and revised edition—which now contains the 700 most important words you need to master—you'll quickly learn why this title has been such a positive impact in the personal and professional lives of tens of thousands in the English-speaking world.

By utilising the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected will provide a blueprint for how to use social health to foster well-being and productivity. At every level, each person, department and organisation is struggling to find a way to navigate this challenging era; Fully Connected will be a blueprint for anyone looking to reclaim time, space and identity in our world.

When you ask leaders in a high performing organization about the key to their success, the answers are all over the place: failing fast, radical transparency, operational excellence, strong core values...so many different North Stars to follow. Then, if you ask them for an example - to tell you what that looks like in practice - they will all describe a meeting. Leaders at these organizations have learned to design a sequence of tailored meetings that create a healthy organizational culture and drive forward momentum. They know that meetings are where the action is.