Straight Talk
Influence Skills for Collaboration and Commitment
by Rick Brandon
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Pub Date May 10 2022 | Archive Date May 09 2022
BenBella Books | Matt Holt
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Description
sharpening influence skills can address these challenges and create huge payoffs.
Collaborative and commitment-driven interaction is the key to overcoming the obstacles of ever-rising performance expectations, widespread stress, and remote work.
Drawing from 35 years of performance-improvement experience, Rick Brandon, PhD, trains thousands of people to improve their results and work relationships by improving the clarity and persuasiveness of their communication. Straight Talk is his “edu-taining” workshop-in-a-book for anyone who wants to develop direct, empathetic, and positive communication skills that will benefit themselves, their teammates, and their companies.
It’s common sense but not always common practice to work on improving interpersonal skills in order to achieve accountability and a more productive and harmonious work climate. Straight Talk shows how thoughtful changes to communication can create a ripple effect across teams and organizations. Each chapter is packed with practical tips, simple how-to instruction, real-world examples, involvement exercises, and humor, to help readers build positive influence skills with competence and confidence.
Straight Talk hones core Assertive Speaking and Empathic Listening skills, and then funnels them into step-by-step formats for six vital workplace situations: Gaining Commitments, Advising and Guiding, Recognizing, Reminding, Constructively Confronting, and Challenging Ideas.
Straight Talk will empower you to make interpersonal expertise your competitive advantage.
Advance Praise
"Straight Talk is the most unique and practical book I have read on influence management and interpersonal effectiveness. I feel like I just attended Rick Brandon's highly rated workshop in book form in the comfort of my own home . . . What an achievement! There are tips, tools, checklists, or models on practically every page. As a bonus, Straight Talk is just flat-out fun to read. Dr. Brandon has set the new gold standard."
—Ed Betof, Previous Worldwide Vice President, Talent Management & CLO, Becton, Dickinson and Company
"Straight Talk is a fun read with a conversational tone—packed with real-world examples, relevant quotes, practical tips, and exercises. It's so engaging and action-oriented that you'll feel like you're attending an interpersonal skills workshop while reading this book. Dr. Brandon also addresses the complexities of our virtual and hybrid world, giving us an influence savvy how-to manual for our time!"
—Janice Winstead, Director, Leadership Development, Anthem, Inc.
"Straight Talk is a spot-on, practical, and critical book for maximizing your interpersonal effectiveness, influence, and work results during this time of COVID. Just like his workshops at Autodesk were for years, Brandon's down-to-earth teaching is fun and easy to absorb...Brilliant!"
—Jan Becker, Previous Chief Human Resources Officer, Autodesk
"Straight Talk is a great, helpful, and practical handbook for understanding and building critical soft skills. Understanding communication dynamics in a mega-corporation in today's work world isn't easy . . . I've witnessed Rick Brandon's "go-to" consulting to develop my Fortune 50 company's key talent, and now his Straight Talk is the go-to book for developing professional teams and early career executives in the 'real world.'"
—Martin Robatti, Global Human Resources Leader, Fortune 50 company
"Straight Talk is a communication skills handbook—a skills-building workshop in book form . . . Brandon packs each chapter with practical tips, simple how-to instruction, relevant quotes, real-world examples, metaphors, humor, and skill drills."
—Nicole Glasrud Haydon, Vice President Learning & Development, Fortune 500 Company
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781637740651 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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