Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition

  • 2h 35m
  • Janis Fisher Chan
  • AMACOM
  • 2002

Gain the skills to:

  • Become a more effective manager by improving your reading, writing, speaking, and listening proficiency
  • Communicate clearly and correctly to avoid misunderstanding and get your message across
  • Coach, motivate, encourage, support and teach your employees

The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This newly revised self-study is your guide to business communication that delivers the message—whether written, or spoken, in person or via e-mail—with respect for the receiver, and in all business situations. This solid overview of all facets of business communication offers numerous opportunities to practice and apply your new skills and a log to track your improvement.

Learn how to:

  • Develop and use your listening skills to solve problems, diffuse conflict, teach staff, and be a more productive manager or team leader
  • Ask the right type of question to elicit information, encourage a response, or create a relationship
  • Master the techniques of successful presentations from planning to delivery
  • Understand your audience before communicating your ideas in any format
  • Choose the most appropriate mode for communicating your message
  • Use effective language to express your ideas clearly in well-constructed letters, proposals, memos, and e-mail

In this Book

  • Communication: The Key to a Manager's Success
  • Listening: The Foundation
  • Getting Your Message Across
  • The Art of Asking Questions
  • Helping People Learn
  • On Your Feet: Making Successful Presentations
  • On the Page: What is Good Writing?
  • On the Page: How to Write Well
  • Post-Test

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