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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

by Kerry Patterson

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history." --Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed... (more)

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

by Douglas Stone

Members of the Harvard Negotiation Project--which brought you the mega-bestseller Getting to YES --show you how to handle your most difficult conversations with confidence and skill. Whether you're dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid... (more)

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

by Rick Kirschner, Rick Brinkman

The international bestseller--more than 500,000 copies sold! With their 1994 international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand, Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner armed a civility-starved world with no-nonsense strategies for dealing with difficult people with tact and skill. Since then, cell phones, the Internet, voice mail, and other technological wonders designed to bring people closer... (more)

Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping (with Booklet - Skilled Helping Around the World)

Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping (with Booklet - Skilled Helping Around the World)

by Gerard Egan

Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, Egan's text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. Egan masterfully leads readers step-by-step through the counseling process, while giving them a... (more)

Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)

Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)

by Edgar H. Schein

The latest edition to the Ed Schein's well-loved set of process consultation books, this new volume builds on the content of the two that precede it and explores the critical area of the helping relationship. Process Consultation Revisited focuses on the interaction between consultant and client, explaining how to achieve the healthy helping relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the... (more)

Drop the Pink Elephant: 15 Ways to Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say

Drop the Pink Elephant: 15 Ways to Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say

by Bill McFarlan

"As GMTV anchor, I interview hundreds of people every year. However well they interview, every single person would find it easier to explain their case by following these simple principles." EAMONN HOLMES, GMTV Presenter "<Drop the Pink Elephant>...tackle<s> every aspect of personal communication in a crisp, entertaining style." THE PLAIN ENGLISH SOCIETY "There can be no whitewash at the White... (more)

Conversations With God

by Bob Miller

What is your favorite bestselling book about God and Prayer? We'll guarantee you'll never forget this one. It'll start and end differently than you could have ever imagined. Don't you dare skip to the last page! This author spent twenty-one years traveling across North America and interviewing people from all walks of life who claimed to have had a conversation with God. He presents a cross-section of those... (more)

A Theory of General Ethics: Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment

A Theory of General Ethics: Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment

by Warwick Fox

With A Theory of General Ethics Warwick Fox both defines the field of General Ethics and offers the first example of a truly general ethics. Specifically, he develops a single, integrated approach to ethics that encompasses the realms of interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment, and the ethics of the built environment. Thus Fox offers what is in effect the first example of an ethical "Theory of... (more)

Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

by Madelyn Burley-Allen

A proven program for turning effective listening into a powerful business tool Managers and other employees spend more than 40 percent of their time listening to other people but often do it so poorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirected projects, and erroneous actions—millions of dollars’ worth of mistakes just because most people don’t know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic... (more)

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping, 8th

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping, 8th

by Gerard Egan

Written by Gerard Egan, with assistance from Rich McGourty, this manual parallels the main text, THE SKILLED HELPER, Eighth Edition. The manual allows students to complete self-development exercises as well as practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others.

Taxi

by Khaled Al Khamissi

Underscoring the most diverse species on the planet—the taxi driver—this striking portrait unveils the polluted, unforgiving streets of Cairo, a city that simply refuses to stand still. Bringing together 58 fictional monologues from Cairo cabbies, recreated from actual experiences while traversing the city, this novel takes readers on a roller coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and... (more)

Conversational Power: The Key to Success With PeopleJames K. Van Fleet, Van Fleet James K James K. Van Fleet

Conversational Power: The Key to Success With People

by James K. Van Fleet, Van Fleet James K James K. Van Fleet

What If?: Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue

What If?: Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue

by Steve L. Robbins

Competitive advantage in business today is being defined by the winners and losers in the war for talent: hiring and retaining the best and the brightest are what market leadership is all about. What If? delivers a highly creative and innovative new way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural, multiethnic workplace. To the 25 witty yet inspiring stories in this collection, Robbins has added tips... (more)

Snapshots At St. Arbuck's

by R. G. Ryan

Snapshots at St. Arbuck’s deftly captures quiet, personal human moments in one of the least likely of places—a bustling coffee shop. R.G. Ryan’s observations and vignettes remind us that there are stories unfolding in front of us constantly and that perhaps all we need to do is sit still for a minute to hear and see them.

Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

by Melinda Blau

“Challenges us to rethink our circle of relationships. . . . A mind-expanding and heart-opening book.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence Our barista, our mechanic, our coworker—they populate our days, but we often take them for granted. Yet these are the people who bring novelty and information into our lives, allow us to exercise different parts of ourselves, and open us up to new opportunities.... (more)

The Four Conversations: Daily Communication That Gets Results

The Four Conversations: Daily Communication That Gets Results

by Jeffrey Ford, Laurie Ford

Making Everyday Talk Work Talk is powerful. And it isn't just `difficult' conversations that matter--the everyday dialogue we have with one another is critical to both personal and organizational success. Packed with sample dialogues and dozens of personal stories, and backed by solid research and the authors' firsthand observations, The Four Conversations describes how to get maximum results from... (more)

Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)

Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)

by Neale Donald Walsch

Conversations with God Book 1 began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny ( The Pink Panther and Clear and Present Danger ) and Ingrid Boulting ( The Last Tycoon ). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come ) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films... (more)

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee

National Bestseller Available in Paperback Drawing from decades of research within world-class organizations, the authors show that great leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using Emotional Intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders, they show, have "resonance"-a powerful ability to... (more)

For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

by Shaunti Christine Feldhahn

What’s going on in a man’s mind? From their early days, every woman has struggled to understand why males behave the way they do. Even long-married women who think they understand men have only scratched the surface. Beneath a man’s rugged exterior is an even more rugged, unmapped terrain. What bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn’s research reveals about the inner lives of men will open women’s eyes to what the... (more)

For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

by Jeff Feldhahn, Shaunti Christine Feldhahn

Finally—You Can Understand Her! Women: complicated and impossible to understand? Do you love and want to please the woman in your life, but just can’t seem to figure her out? That was before For Men Only . Now at your fingertips is the tool that will unlock the secret to her mysterious ways. Through hundreds of interviews and the results of a scientific national survey of women, this book demonstrates... (more)

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by Kerry Patterson

by Douglas Stone

by Rick Kirschner, Rick Brinkman

by Gerard Egan

by Edgar H. Schein

by Bill McFarlan

by Bob Miller

by Warwick Fox

by Madelyn Burley-Allen

by Gerard Egan

by Khaled Al Khamissi

by James K. Van Fleet, Van Fleet James K James K. Van Fleet

by Steve L. Robbins

by R. G. Ryan

by Melinda Blau

by Jeffrey Ford, Laurie Ford

by Neale Donald Walsch

by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee

by Shaunti Christine Feldhahn

by Jeff Feldhahn, Shaunti Christine Feldhahn