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Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional
Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different communication skills in careful detail, the book also contains guidance for the ongoing development of these skills, and is useful for professionals at every level of competence in communicating. Ellis promotes reflection and participation through exercises, encouraging not just passive reading, but active engagement.The volume has wide coverage – from making presentations, producing a concise CV and negotiating and asserting to debate on current issues of the real effectiveness of e-mail and PowerPoint versus face-to-face communication: issues very relevant to the contemporary work place. Drawing from experiences in his own successful communications training and consultancy business, Ellis bases his advice on the most recent developments in communications research, and clarifies with examples of current professional practice, making Communication Skills the essential aid to career advancement.
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Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional
Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different communication skills in careful detail, the book also contains guidance for the ongoing development of these skills, and is useful for professionals at every level of competence in communicating. Ellis promotes reflection and participation through exercises, encouraging not just passive reading, but active engagement.The volume has wide coverage – from making presentations, producing a concise CV and negotiating and asserting to debate on current issues of the real effectiveness of e-mail and PowerPoint versus face-to-face communication: issues very relevant to the contemporary work place. Drawing from experiences in his own successful communications training and consultancy business, Ellis bases his advice on the most recent developments in communications research, and clarifies with examples of current professional practice, making Communication Skills the essential aid to career advancement.
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Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional

Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional

by Richard Ellis
Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional
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Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional

Communication Skills: Stepladders to Success for the Professional

by Richard Ellis

Overview

Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different communication skills in careful detail, the book also contains guidance for the ongoing development of these skills, and is useful for professionals at every level of competence in communicating. Ellis promotes reflection and participation through exercises, encouraging not just passive reading, but active engagement.The volume has wide coverage – from making presentations, producing a concise CV and negotiating and asserting to debate on current issues of the real effectiveness of e-mail and PowerPoint versus face-to-face communication: issues very relevant to the contemporary work place. Drawing from experiences in his own successful communications training and consultancy business, Ellis bases his advice on the most recent developments in communications research, and clarifies with examples of current professional practice, making Communication Skills the essential aid to career advancement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781841502984
Publisher: Intellect Books
Publication date: 01/01/2003
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 210
File size: 591 KB

About the Author

Richard Ellis is a consultant and trainer in communications.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
 
1    Introduction to New Edition
2    Skills Development
3    Interpersonal Skills
4    Before You Start Communicating: Your Audience
5    Listening and Interviewing
6    Being Interviewed
7    That Favourite - The Telephone
8    Assertiveness, Styles of Communication and Managing Conflict
9    Negotiation
10  Communication in Groups
11  Communicating In and Out of the Chair
12  Communicating on your Feet: Presenting Yourself to Others
13  Communication via the Keyboard: The Ingredients of Effective Writing
14  The Process of Writing
15  Specific Types of Writing
16  Creativity in Your Communication
17  Keeping up the Progress
 
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