Communication Plus How to Speak So People Will Listen

by Littauer, Florence; Littauer, Marita

• ISBN13: 9780830739318
• ISBN10: 0830739319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-08
• Publisher: Regal

Summary

Want to improve your communication skills? By understanding your personality type, yours"re off to a great start. This essential guide to better communication for men and women teams up experienced communicators and trainers Florence and Marita Littauer. Communication Plus explores and outlines each of the four personality types with their differing personality approaches to conversation, compliments and criticism. And it helps readers practically put into play what theyrs"ve learned about their own and othersrs" personalities via written communication and the ABCs of public speaking, including developing, researching and organizing a topic and putting power into the presentation. Professionals who are on the lookout for keys to success in business and in life will learn not only how to communicate, but to communicate with confidence. Communication Plus has been updated and revised from its original release-Talking So People Will Listen (08307.35038 bull; $10.99)

Author Biography

DR. FLORENCE LITTAUER is an internationally known speaker and author and the recipient of numerous writing awards. She has written more than 30 books, including the bestselling How to Get Along with Difficult People, Blow Away the Black Clouds and Talking So People Will Listen. Her book Personality Plus has sold over 1 million copies and has been translated into 14 languages. Florence is the founder of CLASServices, Inc. MARITA LITTAUER is the president of CLASServices, Inc. and has been training up-and-coming speakers and authors through the CLASSeminars for the past twenty years. She speaks regularly across the nation and is a regular contributor to Marriage Partnership, Christian Communicator, Christian Bride, Godly Business Woman, and Writer\u2019s Digest. She and her husband, Chuck Noon, live in Albuquerque, N.M.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(7)
Communication
Figuring Out What You Have to Say	14	(11)
Discovering Your Communication Personality	25	(14)
Communicating with Other Personalities	39	(12)
Listening, Learning and Leading	51	(11)
Giving an Introduction	62	(6)
Selecting Your Topic	68	(20)
Researching and Organizing Your Topic	88	(14)
Putting Power in Your Presentation	102	(20)
Putting Heart in Your Presentation	122	(16)
Plus
Putting Your Best Speech Forward	138	(4)
Speaking and Writing: Like a Hand in a Glove	142	(12)
Earning a Living Speaking	154	(10)
Going Beyond the Book	164	(8)
Appendix Dressing for the Platform	172