The quality of your conversations

Communication is about Conversations and Building Rapport

Alan Barker highlights an oft-neglected aspect that communication is about conversations and building rapport. His book is interesting, refreshing, simple and offers some 'aha' insights.

Alan's piece on rapport building is superb. (Books by Dale Carnegie, Les Giblin and Leil Lowndes too are nice. I am sure that most of you would have read books by these three authors).

Alan Barker's style of writing is such that you enjoy reading his book, and you also get the feeling that Alan is a caring and intelligent author. His writing style makes you feel that he cares for you and that he is keen to help you be more successful.

Surprisingly Alan Barker's super-duper book has a rather boring, dull and cliched title: 'Improve your communication skills'. But the book is different from and better than several books on this topic. It's not at all like: "Oh God, not another book on improving communication skills."

Alan has, in this book, also covered the topics of skills of persuasion, skills of presentation and writing, all in an excellent manner. It is better to purchase and give this book to each participant, rather than give a handout on each of these themes.

I recommend this book:
http://www.kogan-page.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=0749432624
Improve Your Communication Skills
By Alan Barker
(Creating Success Series of the Sunday Times)
Published by Kogan Page


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