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Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness, Updated 2021 Edition
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Product Description *ALMOST 1 MILLION SOLD!* Conversationally Speaking has become the most popular book in the world teaching conversation skills. Millions of people have used it to learn the secrets of effective communication. This revised edition provides more ways to improve your conversation skills by giving you strategies that work for starting conversations, asking questions that promote interaction, interesting people in what you have to say, listening so that others will be encouraged to talk, avoiding rejection-producing behavior, handling criticism constructively, and more. . Everybody thinks that some people are born with the "gift of gab" and some people aren't. But the truth is there is no "gift of gab." People who are good at conversation just know a few simple skills that anyone can learn. This book will teach you those skills. . Chapter 12 uniquely summarizes in 25 pages the life's work of famed psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis on overcoming shyness and becoming more confident- and does it so well it received praise from Dr. Ellis himself! . Find out why Toastmaster Magazine calls Conversationally Speaking "the classic how-to book in social communication" and why Dr. Aaron Beck, whose work has had a major influence on thousands of psychologists, calls it "of great value for people who want to sharpen their skills in interpersonal relations." Click on the "Look Inside" feature above the cover picture and sample the book. Review "To be successful, you have to connect with people, and Conversationally Speaking is the best book on how to do that. Period. Within a month after reading it, I used its simple tools to sign a major client. So Buy It. Now!" - Don Passman, Lawyer and Author of All You Need to Know about the Music Business "Conversationally Speaking is the classic how-to book in social communication." - Toastmaster Magazine "Conversationally Speaking is of great value for people who want to sharpen their skills in interpersonal relations. I routinely recommend it." -Aaron Beck, MD, University Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania "An exceptionally clear, highly effective book on conversational skills that uniquely includes a very sensible and useful section on rational thinking." -Dr. Albert Ellis, Founder of the Rational Emotive Behavioral School of Psychology "Alan Garner is brilliant at teaching social skills to those who need or want to start at the beginning- who feel they somehow missed out on life classes that everyone else got to attend." -Carolyn Hax, Columnist for the Washington Post From the Publisher Amanda Goodwin Caporaletti is an expert in interpersonal communication. She has taught communication skills to thousands of students as an Associate Teaching Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Alan Garner is a nationally-known communications consultant. He has taught hundreds of Conversationally Speaking workshops, and more than 5 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. From the Author I teach these skills because I once needed to learn them- and nobody was there to help me. I had no friends, was not at all socially confident, was wandering around Europe after having dropped out of UCLA because of loneliness and depression. . One day I stumbled upon an article about some universities which were teaching conversation skills to groups like men who never date, women who have no friends, and couples who seldom talk to each other. After learning these skills, the men, women and couples all did considerably better. . I was intrigued, and made it a point to learn these skills upon my return. Much to my amazement, they worked! It was as though I'd been trying to drink soup with a fork or cut a steak with a spoon- the wrong tools. Once I had the right tools, the right skills, things went considerably smoo
