How to Talk So People Listen: Real Key to Job Success - Softcover

· Have you ever come away from a meeting knowing that you haven’t made your point effectively?
· Have you ever made a presentation and felt audience attention slipping away?
· Do you sometimes find it difficult to understand your business associates and met them halfway?
· Do high-powered encounters with the boss simply put you on the defence?

If any of these problems sound familiar, then 'How To Talk So People Listen' is full of the advice and help you need. You can identify what your listener wants from an encounter, and ensure that everyone gets the best possible results. Find out the best time to hold meetings – to lunch or not to lunch? – or how to gain prior knowledge of audiences and motivate them through self-interest.

This book exposes our preconceptions about communicating in the workplace and brings a new, highly effective dimension to this complex world. Sonya Hamlin is an EmmyAward-winning chat show host and heads her own communications consultancy – she has acted as an advisor to the chief executive officers of such companies as American Express and Polaroid.

Sonya Hamlin is an Emmy Award-winning chat show host and head of her own communications consultancy. She has acted as an adviser to the chief executive officers of companies of the calibre of Polaroid and American Express.