How to Say It At Work: Putting Yourself Across with Power Words, Phrases, Body Language, and Communication Secrets

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How to Say It At Work: Putting Yourself Across with Power Words, Phrases, Body Language, and Communication Secrets
Jack Griffin
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Jack Griffin argues that it's vital to sell yourself--and your ideas--every day. In How to Say It at Work: Putting Yourself Across with Power Words, Phrases, Body Language and Communication Secrets, he offers practical advice for making your case whether your target is a supervisor, colleague, subordinate, client, vendor, or lender. Part 1 has a self-test for evaluating your current skills and also includes a toolkit for improving your overall communication at work. Part 2 lists specifics for dealing with key individuals and includes helpful (and harmful) words, phrases, body-language strategies and other techniques that can help you be a better communicator at work. --Howard Rothman

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Excellent Book!.......2007-08-03

This book was very helpful for me to determine what to say and how to convey my message professionally. I highly recommend this book to anyone in the workplace.

Management Book.......2007-07-15

Another recommendation from my management class. Very useful examples for various situations. It will be very helpful and one of my reference books.

Must have.......2006-12-24

I bought this while interviewing and now I keep it at work. I got the job I wanted with my top salary request. Useful, easy to understand and put into practice. Things you didn't realize about posture, facial expressions, simple phrasing, voice tone, etc. Great investment.

Is this a vocabulary review?.......2005-09-10

I was more interested in reading about different perspectives in the business environment, and the most effective way to communicate between different roles. I did not buy the book to memorize long lists of words and phrases - the "good" ones and the "bad" ones.

The lists really put me off. They do get the right concepts across, in their own inept way, but they aren't all-inclusive, and it only stands to reason that sometimes they'll be wrong, depending upon the situation. Sure words are powerful, but delivery is everything. Body language, attitude, and neutral words used in the wrong way can have the same effect as words on the "bad" list, so the lists hardly make sense. I think the only time I will use these lists will be when I want to mock the late 90's and early 2000's with tired, overused phrases that I really can't stand to hear anymore. This book is at such a superficial level that it isn't even about communication.

Excellent and essential book for everyone.......2004-10-07

I started teaching people to make PowerPoint presentations around 1992. Around 1995, I realized that many people were talking about themselves, so I suggested that the most important word they could use was "You." In 2003, I realized that people who wanted to be accepted by their audience should use the word "We." And then I picked up this book and read that the the three most important words in a business person's vocabulary were "we," "us," and "our." And that was on page eleven. At that point I was sold.

It's very easy to open your mouth and say your message in a way that alienates people. Very few people can negotiate difficult communications, but this book will help them do this. The book shows you words, phrases and body language to use and to avoid. It has numerous samples of conversations you can have with your fellow workers to put yourself in the best position.

The book covers all kinds of spoken business communications - the four largest sections include Getting a Job, speaking with your Supervisors, your Colleagues, and your Subordinates. Other groups are Prospective Clients, Current Clients, Handling Credit, Collection, and Customer Complaints, Vendors and Suppliers, and Lenders and Investors. In many cases you'll see the traps you can fall into.

You need to use this book with a little thought, in that the circumstances are usually similar to what you have to deal with, but not identical. But a few minutes' reading will change you from being a tongue-tied person to someone who achieves what you want.

I feel sorry for people who dismiss this and other similar books as "just common sense." I've known few people who possessed even a fraction of the skills shown in this book, and my own experience shows that I spent over ten years learning the information that appears in the beginning of the book.

Definitely a must-have, and a good book to build your general communications skills. And you'll stop coming away from meetings thinking, "I wish I could have said that better."

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The not-so-secret code: across the U.S., form-based codes are putting new urbanist ideas into practice.(hurricane katrina's effects) : An article from: Planning
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Putting out fires across the world from North Bay.(TOP 5 YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS)(Dave Aspin, owner of Gridlinedesign): An article from: Northern Ontario Business
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A great resource for the Atlanta job hunter.......2000-08-02

This is an excellent book. The author has done a great job in pulling together the elements which spell success in the quest for employment. I recommend it.

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Good for beginners, maybe.......2007-02-25

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My husband and I have read this book together. It has been very helpful and eye opening for us. We have struggled to provide and introduce our children to the type of life we have wanted them to know. This book has helped take a lot of the roadblocks to our success as a couple out of the way and we are more in love with each other than ever before. We have learned to be able to deal with difficult issues and we have learned how important it is to be looking for ways to improve our relationship skills. Now discussing small, difficult or money issus in our life are no longer difficult or agonizing. We have learned to calmly and politely sit down and talk with one another and work through together the issues of managing our household. We are sure glad we found this book and we refer it to our friends often.

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