Communication Skills – Stepladders to Success for the Professional: Stepladders to Success for the Professional - Second Edition - Softcover

Ellis, Richard

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9781841502496: Communication Skills – Stepladders to Success for the Professional: Stepladders to Success for the Professional - Second Edition

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ISBN 10: 1841502499 ISBN 13: 9781841502496

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different communication skills in careful detail, the book also contains guidance for the ongoing development of these skills, and is useful for professionals at every level of competence in communicating. Ellis promotes reflection and participation through exercises, encouraging not just passive reading, but active engagement.The volume has wide coverage - from making presentations, producing a concise CV and negotiating and asserting to debate on current issues of the real effectiveness of e-mail and PowerPoint versus face-to-face communication: issues very relevant to the contemporary work place. Ellis draws from experiences in his own successful communications training and consultancy business, making Communication Skills the essential aid to career advancement.

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The ability to communicate effectively in written and oral presentation is essential for anyone seeking a successful career. In the course of their work, professionals will need to produce reports, perform well in interviews, give presentations, and chair meetings, as well as deal with the daily barrage of e-mails and phone calls. In Communication Skills, Richard Ellis offers essential reading for any ambitious professional. This bookoffers both practical exercises and realistic guidance. The effectiveness, as opposed to the efficiency of e-mail and PowerPoint, is discussed. Drawing from his experience as a communications consultant, Ellis provides strategies for enhanced interpersonal, group and organizational communication.

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"The title disguises the wealth of useful information contained in this marvellous book...an impressive tour of the whole field of communications both for the unpractised and those of us with more experience." - Charles Cook, Journal of the English Speaking Board, Vol. 36, No. 1.

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