How to Improve Your Communication Skills: How to Build Trust, Be Heard and Communicate With Confidence...

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Alan Barker

How to Improve Your Communication Skills

How to Build Trust, Be Heard and Communicate With Confidence

Alan Barker

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Kogan Page Ltd
03 May 2025

Business communication & presentation; Advice on careers & achieving success

Series: Creating Success

Better communication skills will have a direct impact on your career development. Improve Your Communication Skills is your practical guide to effective communication in business.

This fully updated 7th edition now features a handy self-assessment tool to help you profile your own preferred communication style, even more practical exercises, useful checklists and top tips, as well as content on influencing others and managing difficult conversations. This book provides vital guidance on improving your conversations, building rapport, giving effective presentations, writing excellent reports and networking successfully. With the help of Improve Your Communication Skills, you will be able to get your message across - every time.

The Creating Success series of books...

Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

By: Alan Barker
Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 7th Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781398621145
ISBN 10: 1398621145
Series: Creating Success
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Chapter - 01: What is communication?; Section - 02: What’s your communication style?; Section - 03: Seven ways to improve your conversations; Section - 04: The skills of enquiry; Section - 05: The skills of persuasion; Section - 06: Tough conversations; Section - 07: Making a presentation; Section - 08: Putting it in writing; Section - 09: Networked – The new conversation

Alan Barker is Managing Director of Kairos Training, a learning consultancy devoted to creativity and communication at work. He is the author of How to Manage Meetings, also published by Kogan Page. He is based in Wiltshire, UK.