Career Skills Collection Vol. 5, Soundview Executive Book SummariesToday, leaders have to be more thoughtful and strategic than ever about managing their careers. Charting your course to career success requires smart decision-making and critical planning today. In this collection of books summaries from Soundview, you'll get the essential advice you need to keep your career on track in tough times and beyond.
The Soundview Career Skills Collection Vol. V is designed to bring today's professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. These summaries cover a wide range of topics essential for every good leader interested in learning more about improving public speaking skills, solving communication challenges, generating collaborative enthusiasm and more.
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Career Skills Vol. V
The How of Wow by Tony Carlson: Communications expert Tony Carlson knows what it takes to electrify audiences and make a lasting impact. In The How of Wow, he shares tips on getting attention, empathy and respect from audiences; developing a bigger and better stage presence; and making every speech a memorable and powerful experience for you and your audience alike. Giving speeches is a great way to get recognized and build your personal brand. Tony Carlson helps you gain and enhance your reputation as a public speaker without peer.
Off the Cuff by Anne Cooper Ready: To help readers build up their confidence when asked to just “say a few words,” writer and communications coach Anne Cooper Ready offers them a useful combination of encouragement and preparation to face impromptu speaking in Off the Cuff. In an easy-to-reference guidebook that helps readers put words together that motivate, direct, entertain, and get a point across, Ready teaches both the basic and advanced skills that are needed to solve communication challenges ranging from apologies and meetings to introductions and rallying the troops.
Generating Buy-In by Mark S. Walton: A former senior correspondent and anchorman at CNN, Mark Walton draws on his rich communications background to help leaders master the language of leadership with Generating Buy-In. Walton describes “buy-in” as getting understanding, commitment and action from others in support of a person, idea, proposal, product, service or organization. He explains that buy-in is the essential emotional ingredient needed for any collaborative effort to be successful. Generating Buy-In shows leaders how they can get buy-in by recognizing situations that call for renewed commitment from others, creating strategic stories that generate enthusiasm, and calling for action to get the job done.
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