A communications expert integrates anecdotes, case studies, and practical exercises on how to make contact with the audience on an emotional and personal level and promote effective communication

You'Ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard

Politics & Social Sciences

Decker, Bert

Sociology

St Martins Pr

Are you uncomfortable--even afraid--about the prospect of speaking before a group of people? Do you have trouble getting your message across? When you speak, do others listen--or can you feel their attention wandering?
Effective communication is essential in business and in everyday life. The most powerful communicators reach not just our minds, but our hearts: They win our trust. You can learn to impress and persuade other people by following Bert Decker's program in You've Got you Be Believed To Be Heard.
Decker trains over 10,000 professionals each year in the art of communicating. In this book, he distills his expertise into a fresh new approach to speaking, with examples and how-to exercises that anyone can follow. Spend a few evenings with his book, and you will discover how to win the emotional trust of others--the true basis of communicating in any situation.
How to conquer "stage fright" How to inject dynamic energy into your voice Why eye contact helps win trust When and how to use humor to make a point A proven technique to eliminate "Umm" and "Ahh" from your speech Eight steps to transforming your personal impact
A Main Selection of the Newbridge Book Club Executive Program

You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard: Reach the First Brain to Communicate in Business and in Life

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

St. Martin's: Griffin

Are you uncomfortable―even afraid―about the prospect of speaking before a group of people? Do you have trouble getting your message across? When you speak, do others listen, or can you feel their attention wandering?
 Effective communication is essential in business and in everyday life. The most powerful communicators reach not just our minds but our hearts: They win our trust. You can learn to impress and persuade other people by following Bert Decker's program in You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard.
 In this revised and updated edition of his bestselling book, he distills his expertise into a fresh new approach to speaking, with examples and how-to exercises that anyone can follow. Decker rounds out the behavioral focus of the first edition to include his powerful tool to organize content. Now you can learn to create focused, listener-based messages in half the time. Spend a few evenings with this complete book of speaking, and you will discover how to win the emotional trust of others―the true basis of communicating in any situation.
You'll learn: 
· How to conquer "stage fright"
· How to inject dynamic energy into your voice
· Why eye contact helps win trust
· When and how to use humor to make a point
· A proven technique to eliminate "Umm" and "Ahh" from your speech
· A process to quickly organize your thoughts into a focused message
· How to move your communications from information to influence
· How to make an impact and be yourself―to an audience of one or one hundred
· Eight steps to transforming your communications experience

You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard: The Complete Book of Speaking . . . in Business and in Life!

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

St.Martin's Press

Communicating with bold assurance

LifeWay Press

Whether preaching or witnessing, speaking is a critical communication tool in almost all facets of Christian life. This book brings the Bold Assurance concept to Christian leaders and laypeople, giving them a tool to help them use their minds, mouths, and beings to communicate effectively. Readers will learn the tools for powerful and effective communication based on two things: biblical truth and proven concepts from the business world. For the first time, Christian laypeople and leaders alike can reap the benefits of speaking boldly and skillfully by understanding how God uses us as communicators.

Speaking with Bold Assurance: How to Become a Persuasive Communicator

Religion & Spirituality

York, Hershael W.

Christian Books & Bibles

B&H Books

Preachers are under the biblical mandate to preach with conviction, passion, and in a way that the Word of God engages the audience and grips their hearts. Hershael York and Bert Decker have written a book that will equip preachers to do just that. Preaching with Bold Assurance brings the Bold Assurance concept to the pulpit, giving preachers a practical tool to help them use their minds, mouths, and beings to communicate effectively. Preachers will learn the tools for powerful and effective communication based on biblical truth and proven concepts from the business world so they can preach boldly and skillfully by understanding how God uses us as communicators.

Preaching with Bold Assurance: A Solid and Enduring Approach to Engaging Exposition (Bold Assurance Series, 2)

What Decker does in this small package is deliver a guide developing a complete face-to-face personal style.

The Art of Communicating: Achieving Interpersonal Impact in Business

Crisp Learning

Inspire your listeners to take action on the phone, in a meeting, or in a presentation, using The Decker Grid System(R). Spoken communication is the most effective way to move from ideas to action, and from action to results. It offers a potential that few people use to their full advantage. This user's manual will help you improve what you say. It will teach you a system that ensures the messages you convey to others will get results. It will change the way you communicate. It will make you a more powerful person.

Creating Messages That Motivate: How to Use and Master the Decker Grid System

Skills

Decker Communications

Communication is a basic skill that affects all aspects of business life. Our words, gestures, appearance, and body language all "speak" volumes as to our intent, state of mind, and attitude. Learning to recognize these conscious and unconscious cues, as well as paying attention to others' signals, make us better communicators and leaders. Communication skills can be learned, and COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR LEADERS (formerly THE ART OF COMMUNICATING) gives you the tools to get started. You will learn about the nine behavioral skills for effective communication, and ways you can improve in each area. You will also find several worksheets throughout to help you develop an action plan for further improvement. All the guidance you need to develop into a skilled communicator can be found in the pages of this book. With practice, you can raise your communication skill into an art form.

Crisp: Communication Skills for Leaders, Third Edition: Delivering a Clear and Consistent Message (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)

Computers & Technology

How you look. How you act. How you present yourself. That's how you connect with the people at work who count on you for guidance. The truth is: the art of building relationships and communicating effectively isn't taught in the classroom. But it's all right here. Learn how to use words, gestures and even humor to communicate better as a leader.

Communication Skills for Leaders: Delivering a Clear and Consistent Message (Crisp Fifty Minute Series)

Management & Leadership

Crisp Pub Inc

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