Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectitested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
Newly updated and revised in its third edition, this classic breakthrough book on communication skills teaches you tested and proven ways to: • Ask the kind of questions that promote conversation • Interest people in what you have to say • Issue invitations that are likely to be accepted •...
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Newly updated and revised in its third edition, this classic breakthrough book on communication skills teaches you tested and proven ways to:
• Ask the kind of questions that promote conversation
• Interest people in what you have to say
• Issue invitations that are likely to be accepted
• Achieve deeper levels of understanding and intimacy
• Handle criticism constructively
• Resist manipulation
• Become far more confident in social situations
• Listen so others will be encouraged to talk to you
Drawing on hundreds of research studies as well as on his own experience teaching thousands of people in conversation workshops, Alan Garner has produced a practical, concise, valuable book.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Lowell House
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
I needed a book that would help me master the art of conversation, and this book was a great place to start. It went over everything one needs to become a skilled conversationalist, including asking questions that promote conversation, listening so others will talk, and (the hardest one for me) star...