How to Improve Your Communication Skills: How to Build Trust, Be Heard and Communicate With Confidence

by Alan Barker

Overview

Better communication skills will have a direct impact on your career development. Improve Your Communication Skills is your practical guide to effective communication in business.

This fully updated 7th edition now features a handy self-assessment tool to help you profile your own preferred communication style, even more practical exercises, useful checklists and top tips, as well as content on influencing others and managing difficult conversations. This book provides vital guidance on improving your conversations, building rapport, giving effective presentations, writing excellent reports and networking successfully. With the help of Improve Your Communication Skills, you will be able to get your message across - every time.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398621138
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	05/03/2025
Series:	Creating Success , #173
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alan Barker is Managing Director of Kairos Training, a learning consultancy devoted to creativity and communication at work. He is the author of How to Manage Meetings, also published by Kogan Page. He is based in Wiltshire, UK.
Alan Barker is Managing Director of Kairos Training Limited, a specialist consultancy dedicated to developing creativity and communication skills. A prolific writer, he is the author of Improve your Communication Skills, How to be Better at Managing People, 30 Minutes to Brainstorm Great Ideas, 30 Minutes Before a Meeting and How to Manage Meetings (all published by Kogan Page).

Table of Contents

• Chapter - 01: What is communication?;
• Section - 02: What’s your communication style?;
• Section - 03: Seven ways to improve your conversations;
• Section - 04: The skills of enquiry;
• Section - 05: The skills of persuasion;
• Section - 06: Tough conversations;
• Section - 07: Making a presentation;
• Section - 08: Putting it in writing;
• Section - 09: Networked – The new conversation