Top 100 Power Verbs: The Most Powerful Verbs and Phrases You Can Use to Win in Any Situation

by Michael Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford

Overview

Electrify

all your communications…
in business and beyond
with everyone, everywhere!

 

The top 100 power verbs
 •  express strength, intelligence, and confidence
 •  drive change and motivate action
 •  make you a more powerful, charismatic leader

 

Grab the right verb and use it the right way to:
Work any room and become a truly unforgettable networker
Write crisp, focused, highly-effective reports, emails, memos, and business plans
Present brilliantly, whether you’re a president, professor, preacher, or pundit
Deepen and strengthen your relationships with every client, customer, and investor

Jam-packed with examples drawing on thousands of years of storytelling, literature, and experience

 

Indispensable for everyone who wants to win!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133158885
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	06/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	823 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Michael Lawrence Faulkner is the author of six books. He is a professor at the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University. He is a former U.S. Marine who spent 30 years in a variety of leadership and executive management positions with Fortune 500 firms and major nonprofit trade associations. He also helped his family run the family business before beginning his second career in academics. Michael is a member of MENSA, a Rotary International Fellow, and a Keller Master Teacher Award recipient. He holds a Silver Certification by the Toastmaster’s International. In addition to his Ph.D., Michael has earned two Master’s degrees: one from NYU and an MBA from NYIT.

Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford is a 2001 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where she majored in English and minored in Writing. Mrs. Lunsford spent 10+ years in the world of advertising and marketing as an Account Manager and Director of Marketing and New Business Development, managing multimillion dollar accounts from male-enhancement medications to beer ads. In 2011, Michelle left the corporate world for the opportunity to raise her daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction     1
CHAPTER 1 The Connection Between Communications and Success     2
 Verb Forms     5
CHAPTER 2 How to Use This Book     9
 Additional Support for You     10
CHAPTER 3 100 Top Action Verbs for Business, Brokering, Banking, Bargaining, and Occasionally Betting the Farm     14
CHAPTER 4 100 Top Action Verbs for Challenging Situations and Difficult Moments, Calumny, Comebacks, or When You Just Want to Get in the Last Word     83
CHAPTER 5 100 Top Action Verbs for Mind Games, Mental Panache, Mastermind Monkey Business, Meeting MENSAs, or Just Showing Off     125
CHAPTER 6 100 Top Action Verbs for Presenters, Professors, Preachers, Poets, Playwrights, and Pundits Searching for Savoir Faire     165
CHAPTER 7 100 Top Action Verbs for Schooling, Sagacity, Shrewdness, and Other Times to Be Sharp and Serious     210
CHAPTER 8 100 Top Action Verbs for Schmoozing, Socializing, Shindigs, Getting Sentimental, or Using Your Networking to Work the Room     256
Additional Sources     307
Index     311