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Author Michael Weiss
The popularity of the TED talk has raised the bar for public speaking and presentations. Audiences expect to be educated, inspired and engaged whether they are sitting in a conference room or an auditorium. Yet too often presenters lack the skills to take comm....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Excellence in Internal Communication Management
Author Shannon A. Bowen , Rita Linjuan Men
This book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders. Important topics....
Release Date 2016/12 -
HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter (HBR Guide Series)
Author Harvard Business Review
Make every minute count.Your calendar is full, and yet your meetings don’t always seem to advance your work. Problems often arise with unrealistic or vague agendas, off-track conversations, tuned-out participants who don’t know why they’re there, and follow-up note....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook
Author Silvina P. Hillar
80 simple but incredibly effective recipes for teaching reading comprehension, writing, and composing using Moodle 1.9Packed with recipes to help you use Moodle effectively to teach EnglishCreate a different atmosphere to help students improve their writing skills u....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Geoffrey Tumlin
PLAY DUMB. BE BORING. DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS. AND ABOVE ALL, DON'T BE YOURSELF.Not exactly what you'd expect to hear from a communication expert, but these counterintuitive strategies are precisely what we need to interact productively and meaningfully in today's ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Edie Adams , Trevor van Gorp
Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions a....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Writing E-mails That Have a Clear Purpose
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
Thie Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.Make sure every email has a purpose--and your message is instantly clear to everyo....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs
Author Chris Orwig
A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the who and the what. Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer. ....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Lynn Curry
Bullies aren’t limited to the playground. These days, they roam our offices and can be found everywhere from break rooms to boardrooms. They don’t steal your lunch money, but they can make your work life a living hell—and even ruin your career.Whether the bully is ....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Success as an Introvert For Dummies
Author Joan Pastor
Thrive as an introvert in an extrovert worldBill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and author J.K. Rowling have more in common than being highly successful. They're also introverts. Success as an Introvert For Dummies identifies common misunderstandings about introverts and ....
Release Date 2013/12 -
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
Author Donald Maass
Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey ....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Ling Chen
This handbook takes a multi-disciplinary approach to offer a current state-of-art survey of intercultural communication (IC) studies. The chapters aim for conceptual comprehension, theoretical clarity and empirical understanding with good practical implications. At....
Release Date 2017/04 -
A Practioner's Guide to Public Relations Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Author Don Stacks
This book will provide the business reader with the necessary understanding of the problems and promises of public relations research, measurement, and evaluation and the public relations practitioner as guide to effective use of methods, measures, and evaluation in....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Valerie Matarese
Supporting Research Writing explores the range of services designed to facilitate academic writing and publication in English by non-native English-speaking (NNES) authors. It analyses the realities of offering services such as education, translation, editing and wr....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Author Jan Vantomme
Creative people and professionals will find this book invaluable in getting to know the great new features of Processing 2. From drawing images to webcam interactions, it's packed with superb recipes that will inspire you.Explore the Processing language with a broa....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Icebreakers—Presentation Skills & Games
Author Robert C. Preziosi
This Info-line provides an overview of the types of icebreakers: openers, acquainters, games, and brainstorming. The issue offers guidelines for selecting icebreakers and for trainer behaviors while conducting icebreakers. Examples of ice breakers are given. ....
Release Date 1999/04 -
Author Ronald J. Luyet , James W. Tamm
What is Your Collaborative Intention?James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet provide tools that will increase your ability to collaborate. You will learn to be more aware of others and how to problem-solve and negotiate. Collaborative skills have never been more importan....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Jeremey Donovan
DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE--AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREERA nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.....
Release Date 2013/09 -
The Truth About Employment Scams
Author Steve Weisman
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Avoiding Scams (9780132333856) by Steve Weisman. Available in print and digital formats.Don’t let employment scammers and fake work-at-home schemes con you out of your hard-earned money!Like many cons, this one appeals....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition
Author Andrea Marks
Writing can be a challenge, especially for artists and designers who tend to be more visual than verbal. Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers is designed to help people who think in pictures—a segment of learners that by some estimates incl....
Release Date 2011/03 -
The Truth About the Interview Process: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes
Author Cathy Fyock
“Talent matters. No one denies this fact. But, there is often a gap between wanting and getting talent. Cathy Fyock’s 53 ‘Truths’ provide concrete, practical, and well-tested ideas to close the talent gap. The ideas are reasonable, grounded in research, and actionab....
Release Date 2007/09 -
Practical Intelligence: The Art and Science of Common Sense
Author Karl Albrecht
Karl Albrecht’s bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practi....
Release Date 2009/02 -
Creative Visualization For Dummies®
Author Robin Nixon
The secret to getting exactly what you want from life — from the man who has!A businessman who has built up, owned and sold software companies, a nightclub, a bed and breakfast (plus a couple of alehouses), author Robin Nixon knows that worldly success has little to....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition
Author Pat Pattison
The Must-Have Guide for SongwritersWriting Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a son....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Give Your Speech, Change the World: How To Move Your Audience to Action
Author Nick Morgan
Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says commu....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume I
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application—how—with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.Quality is the consistent achievement of the user’s expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be “The right thing, right first time, every time, in time..... -
Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume II
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application—how—with the aim of providing guidance and introduction to both.Quality is the consistent achievement of the user’s expectations of a product or service. The achievement needs to be “The right thing, right first time, every time, in time..... -
Truth About Making All Your Employees Feel Like Your Only Employee, The
Author William S. Kane
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Thriving in Change (9780132354622) by William S. Kane. Available in print and digital formats.How to treat every member of your team like they matter — and mean it!To build bridges with your team, you must appreciate a....
Release Date 2010/09 -
The Truth About Investment Scams
Author Steve Weisman
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Avoiding Scams (9780132333856) by Steve Weisman. Available in print and digital formats.10 huge financial rip-offs: how to recognize and avoid them!We’ve all received emails that contained glowing recommendations of a ....
Release Date 2010/11