Business Communication Essentials

No matter how great your knowledge, expertise, or experience, poor communication skills undermine your ability to get your message across, achieve your objectives, and build crucial relationships. To advance your career—and succeed in other aspects of life, as well—building theses skills is essential.

Effective business communication is a skill that anyone can develop. From interview strategies to high-stakes negotiation tactics, 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication offers practical strategies to improve communication skills and help you succeed in your career. Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world’s most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios.

Negotiation-whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract-is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation.

NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business is a straight-talking, highly practical guide to using NLP to significantly improve your results at work. Whether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, you can learn proven NLP techniques that will boost your career as well as the performance of colleagues and the organization itself.

Business partnerships are wonderfully complex entities. As with all relationships, they are vulnerable and subject to fallibility. If you think the fact that one in every two marriages in the United States ends in divorce (that's one every 36 seconds!) is unbelievable, then consider this: The number is significantly higher for business partnerships; about 70 percent of them fail. As a business partnership relationship coach, my mission is to help flip this fail/succeed ratio.

A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are...

Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities. SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of...

In 2020, the world as we knew it changed. For close to two years, people were socially isolated. Many of us lost the art of human face-to-face connections that lead to the development of close intimate relationships. In Relational Intelligence, Dr. Adam C. Bandelli outlines the five essential skills that can help you reconnect with others and build strong, long-lasting relationships. Drawing on research from the fields of psychology, sociology, and behavioral science, he explains why these skills are necessary tools for building a life of joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment.

The most essential component of every project manager’s job is the ability to identify potential risks before they cause unnecessary headaches and turmoil all around. All projects are inherently risky, and complex ones can potentially be the downfall for even the most experienced project...

The importance of effective communication in the workplace cannot be understated. Verbal and non-verbal communication are critical skills in every successful workplace—at the team and employee level—as well as in your personal relationships. From knowing how and when to de-escalate tense situations to dealing with a difficult employee to enhancing your emotional intelligence to listening effectively with your spouse or significant other, learning how to communicate clearly and professionally is key to organizational growth, longevity and productivity.

Beginning your career in Tech sales can be overwhelming and challenging. Here is a guide to help you navigate the start of your selling career and set the foundation for long term success.

Negotiations can be a perplexing and often-intimidating endeavor. Are there aspects about the process that are hiding beneath the surface, unknown to even experienced negotiators? Or insider tools that would change your game considerably? The answer is yes—and they're all revealed in this practical guide from a world-renowned negotiation expert. Negotiation Essentials demystifies this all-important subject, helping you break the process down into easily digestible parts.

"Your legacy, regardless of where you are in your leadership journey, starts now. Leading well now means finishing well later." - Brad Lomenick We need great leaders. More than ever we need authentic, collaborative, inspiring men and women of integrity at the helm of society- and too often our...

A transformative guide to turning everyday communication into a path of peace, authenticity, and connection. We’ve inherited a language born from survival, competition, and fear. It tells us to fight, win, and be right, but it rarely teaches us how to truly connect, listen, or belong. In...

An inspiring and eminently useful guide to the art of letter writing, including prompts and exercises to help deepen our most important connections and heal old wounds, by a beloved “letter midwife.” “A pragmatic, empathetic, urgent call to stop avoiding the hardest conversations and start...

The best candidates for a job aren’t necessarily the most gifted. They don’t have some secret formula for having an amazing interview. Their key to success is being prepared. They research and find out what questions are most often asked and they get ready to answer those questions. This audiobook includes two books: Job Interview: Prepare to Get Hired and Job Interview: Will These Mistakes Cost You the Job? In this book, you'll learn exactly what to do and not do if you want to get the job.

A practical and accessible guide to getting the best from working and managing remotely. The guide that gives you all the know-how you need to manage a team remotely and get the best out of them. More people are working from home - or remotely in other locations or time zones - than ever before...

Read by the author. What's one thing you know you overspend on, but can't live without? If you were given one million dollars, what would you do with it? Answers to questions like these reveal your greatest interests and priorities in life, and they can do the same for your date! Talking money...

A practical and accessible guide to getting the best from working and managing remotely. The guide that gives you all the know-how you need to manage a team remotely and get the best out of them. More people are working from home - or remotely in other locations or time zones - than ever before...

Are you overwhelmed by an ever-growing workload, struggling to harmonize business success with personal well-being? Do decision fatigue and stress leave you feeling drained and disconnected from your entrepreneurial vision? You’re not alone. Even iconic entrepreneurs like Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs faced these challenges—what set them apart was their mastery of emotional intelligence. They turned stress into strength, and setbacks into opportunities for growth. This book offers you the tools to do the same.