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With input from over twenty experts combined with useful checklists, sample agendas, and follow-up memos, the HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter will teach you how to set and communicate your meeting's purpose; invite the right people; prepare an achievable agenda; moderate a lively conversation; regain control of a wayward meeting; and ensure follow-through without babysitting or haranguing.

Whether you're discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution in the middle—if you come to any agreement at all. But these discussions don't need to be win-or-lose situations. Written by negotiation expert Jeff Weiss, the HBR Guide to Negotiating provides a disciplined approach to finding a solution that works for everyone involved.

In the newly updated third edition of The Negotiation Book: Your Definitive Guide to Successful Negotiating, distinguished commercial negotiator Steve Gates delivers a singular and practical guide to the art and science of negotiation. The book lays out the behaviors and traits associated with successful negotiation and offers a comprehensive model for how power, process, and behavior can have substantial impacts on your next negotiation. You'll also learn how you can shape these factors to optimize value for yourself, your client, or your organization.

Master career development with a quiet strategy that builds authentic connections without the extroverted burnout. The pressure to "work the room" often leaves thoughtful professionals feeling drained and inauthentic. If loud small talk and high-energy mixers trigger your social anxiety or...

What makes high achievers truly different from everyone else? Embrace the single greatest factor in success for you and your team. Bestselling business and leadership author John C. Maxwell will help you deeply understand that the biggest difference lies in how we face adversity. High achievers...

From renowned strategist, author, and speaker Tamsen Webster comes this compact and actionable guide that will get you thinking differently about where change comes from and how to initiate it. By introducing and exploring nine “persuasion proverbs,” Webster highlights the behavioral, cognitive, and psychological principles that underpin lasting change, and offers a powerful alternative to the standard tactics of influence and persuasion.

In the newly revised second edition of Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others and Raise Performance, clinical psychologist, distinguished leadership professor, and veteran hostage negotiator George Kohlrieser comes together with his son Andrew Kohlrieser, an experienced leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution consultant, to deliver another incisive and practical discussion of how to use the proven psychological techniques used in hostage negotiations to enhance your leadership skills both professionally and personally.

Whether you're a top-shelf corporate escapee, a fed-up middle manager or a young entrepreneur the e-ttraction method can help you set up a business to achieve your life goals. The 12-step process is separated into three sections to Understand who you are and what you want to achieve, to Build the strategy and assets for your new business, and finally to Leverage your unique assets into a realistic and manageable business model.

Accelerate career growth and master workplace communication with daily habits to become a recognized high performer. Whether you are battling burnout or feeling overlooked for a promotion, this empowering listen provides the exact frameworks needed to regain control of your trajectory. Perfect...

One Presentation Away: Become an Irresistible Speaker and Convert More Clients provides crystal-clear direction on how to become confident when speaking and selling from any stage and how to start getting clients, not just claps. Uniquely, this book reveals how to sell from a virtual or live stage without feeling like you're selling. Written by renowned professional speaker and presentation builder Colin Boyd, this book's core premise is that you are just one irresistible presentation away from the breakthrough you desire.

What do you do when you hear of an interesting brand or person? You Google them, visit their website and their social media platforms. It's their storytelling that draws you in, but what locks you down are the stories being told about the brand. In today's hyperconnected and hypercompetitive...

Workplaces are filled with all types of people, and some of them can be very difficult to get along with. By understanding difficult people and their behaviors, a savvy individual can resolve the awkward and problematic situations they create. Dealing with Difficult People looks at difficult behavior - what drives it and how to cope with it by managing aggression, avoiding awkward situations, and keeping calm. This third edition provides tools and techniques for dealing with difficult customers, difficult people in the digital sphere, and difficult bosses.

This completely updated edition of Emily Post’s essential guide to business etiquette has been fully refreshed with comprehensive advice on everything professionals and jobseekers need to know about how to succeed in the business world today. No matter the industry or the position, business is...

The first interview. Handling a difficult boss. The power of words. Networking. Small talk. Dressing for a cocktail dinner. Holding chopsticks. Drinking wine. Twitter etiquette. Sexual harassment in office. Remembering names. Receiving compliments. Women travelling alone. Thank you notes. The...

Make sure your voice gets heard in any situation—and learn to listen, too Effective Business Communication For Dummies gives you the tools you need to communicate better, both in and outside of the office. You want to build strong relationships, and you'll need strong communication skills to...

Digital Body Language How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance The book we all read right now: the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of ‘oops sorry no you go’ and ‘can you hear me?!...

The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world!

The World's Simplest Guide to the Stock Market provides a crash course on the essentials of stocks and the stock market. In plain language it gives clear answers to key questions such as: - What is a company, how do companies grow, how do companies raise money, and how does a company go public?...

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on communication, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you speak more authentically, express your ideas with clarity and impact, and win over your audience. This book will...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Does the thought of speaking in front of others make your heart race, your palms sweat, and your mind go completely blank? You are not alone. Public speaking anxiety affects millions of people worldwide — from first-time presenters and students to...