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Body language can tell us about feelings, motivations, and attitudes. This video teaches viewers that understanding body language can help improve their communication. Topics covered in this program include being aware of your own body language; learning to read others' body language; body language for presentations; and body language for selling, conflict, and becoming more expressive.
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This program is intended to teach people how to be interesting and effective while asking questions. Topics in this stimulating video include why we need to ask questions, the difference between closed questions and open questions, questions in a group, motivating questions, questions to use more carefully, and using silence.
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This video helps viewers learn how to accept and benefit from the differences in team members' backgrounds, discover the traps to avoid when participating in team meetings, and how to ask for specific performance feedback to ensure continuous improvement. It teaches users to communicate effectively in a team by accepting diversity, participating in meetings, and asking for feedback.
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Gain a powerful formula for leading discussions in the boardroom and training room with this helpful video. The program will help you control meetings, keep time, and ensure that outcomes are achieved. The seven point formula will guide anyone looking to manage meetings effectively, with such topics as identifying objectives, managing time effectively, resolving conflict, and listing action.
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This video allows viewers to improve listening ability and capitalize on the benefits of better listening skills. Topics include both the causes and the costs of poor listening habits; an exploration of appreciative, emphatic, comprehensive, and critical listening; and specific suggestions to improve listening. Lecture-launching, discussion-provoking, and ideal for in-class showing.
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"Resonating with our most profound life experiences, this book explains why we trust other people and form lifelong bonds, and why we ignore these connections at our peril. Pinker answers crucial questions about human relationships in a digital age, such as: How important is face-to-face interaction as children develop new skills, when adults fall in love, when they negotiate business transactions, and as they age? How did humans evolve such finely-tuned...
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Nimbus the pegasus wonders why she cannot be sunny all the time like everyone else, but when she introduces her friend Kelp to her cloud, she finds the unicorn is a very good listener.
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"Political division. Racial tension. Vaccine wars. In Agents of Grace, award-winning writer, journalist, and podcast host Daniel Darling equips us to discern what's worth fighting for, how to move beyond our profound disagreements, and how to live as agents of Jesus's love. When Daniel Darling was fired as spokesperson for the National Religious Broadcasters Association, it wasn't his exit that made national news--it was the way he handled it. Daniel's...
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This insightful video teaches viewers how to avoid the pitfalls and learn to sell a new idea in ten easy steps. Be committed yourself, less is more, know benefits, build coalitions of support, use multiple senses, use logical sequence of questions, show passion and conviction, anticipate objections, close the sale, body language, and overselling are the topics discussed in this program.
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This first part of the classic Foundations of Communication Series involves a discussion of the communication discipline with scholars Lois Self, former chair of the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University; Caroll C. Arnold, former professor emeritus of Pennsylvania State University; James McBath, former chairman of communication arts and sciences at University of Southern California; Nicolas Cripe, formerly of Butler University;...
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Managing conflict effectively is essential to a productive work environment. This program plays out some of the potential conflicts that can occur in an aged care facility, shows the negative responses to disagreements, and then offers practical techniques to better deal with disagreements in a health care setting. Actors demonstrate how conflicts between staff and relatives can often be resolved by using fogging and negative assertion; how tension...