The Four Conversations describes how to get maximum results from conversations that every one of us must use to get things done: initiative conversations introducing something new, understanding conversations to help people relate to ideas or processes, performance conversations requesting specific actions, and closure conversations that recognize achievements and signal completion of the work. As Jeffrey and Laurie Ford clearly demonstrate, engage in the right conversation at the right time--plan and start each one well, finish every one effectively--and extraordinary things can happen.
How to Work a Room: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing
This is the fully revised and updated edition of the ground–breaking self–help book on improving communicating and socializing skills in business and life. How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, or even communicating online.
Telephone English trains students to use the telephone confidently and effectively and effectively in the course of their work. In addition to teaching language common to all business phone calls, Telephone English prepares students for dealing with specific situations in the business context in which they operate.
Program for the learners of English at elementary and pre-intermediate levels. Contains interactive grammar exercises, listening/watching drills, vocabulary section with pronunciation, and conversations with the speaking recognition feature.
The book illustrates the power of this theory by suggesting two experiential avenues for preservice and inservice teachers. In the first, readers have in-depth conversations with children and analyze transcripts of the conversations in order to better understand the children's individual thought processes.