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Influence in Action: How to Build Your Conversational Capacity, Do Meaningful Work, and Make a Powerful Difference
The acclaimed author of Conversational Capacity shows you how to exercise more effective leadership―and find deeper purpose and meaning―by building your ability to engage in open, constructive, learning-focused dialogue when it counts.
With his breakout book, Conversational Capacity, Craig Weber revolutionized the concept of business communication by teaching a veritable conversational martial art that allows teams to perform well and remain open, balanced, and nondefensive as they tackle their most troublesome issues. His proven methods have been used to bolster the performance of executive groups and flight crews, as well as surgical units and CDC emergency response teams. Even more impressive, in over a dozen U.S. states it is even helping Democratic and Republican legislators work together more effectively as they craft public policy.
In Influence in Action , Weber goes deeper, showing you how to put these principles into practice―using a step-by-step program that includes case studies, sample dialogues, skill-building exercises, and powerful conversation techniques. This book will help you balance candor and curiosity under pressure by honing your awareness, shifting your mindset, and sharpening your skills. Better still, it will help you do this as you inspire constructive change all around you.
Research shows that people yearn for more meaningful work. They want to feel like active participants in the workplace. They’re eager to be more engaged. They’re raring to make a difference. And what is leadership if not influence in action?
With his breakout book, Conversational Capacity, Craig Weber revolutionized the concept of business communication by teaching a veritable conversational martial art that allows teams to perform well and remain open, balanced, and nondefensive as they tackle their most troublesome issues. His proven methods have been used to bolster the performance of executive groups and flight crews, as well as surgical units and CDC emergency response teams. Even more impressive, in over a dozen U.S. states it is even helping Democratic and Republican legislators work together more effectively as they craft public policy.
In Influence in Action , Weber goes deeper, showing you how to put these principles into practice―using a step-by-step program that includes case studies, sample dialogues, skill-building exercises, and powerful conversation techniques. This book will help you balance candor and curiosity under pressure by honing your awareness, shifting your mindset, and sharpening your skills. Better still, it will help you do this as you inspire constructive change all around you.
Research shows that people yearn for more meaningful work. They want to feel like active participants in the workplace. They’re eager to be more engaged. They’re raring to make a difference. And what is leadership if not influence in action?
- GenresCommunication
272 pages, Hardcover
Published August 23, 2019
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September 22, 2019
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I realized too late I'm not the demographic for this book. In the first few lines the author recommends reading his first book to better understand this book - if your books are a series you should make that clear up front, if they're not a series then your books should be clear enough to be understood on their own.
I like the concept of this book, but I found it to be less practical advice and something more like Crucial Conversations. There are some anecdotes about how stepping back and letting others share their perspectives before jumping to conclusions is useful, but it's also clearly written from the perspective of someone who has never been marginalized.
Each chapter also ends with a list of other books (notably also mostly by other white men) and a link back to the website for more resources. If you're into self help books or are interested in an office communications 101 this may be more interesting to you.
I realized too late I'm not the demographic for this book. In the first few lines the author recommends reading his first book to better understand this book - if your books are a series you should make that clear up front, if they're not a series then your books should be clear enough to be understood on their own.
I like the concept of this book, but I found it to be less practical advice and something more like Crucial Conversations. There are some anecdotes about how stepping back and letting others share their perspectives before jumping to conclusions is useful, but it's also clearly written from the perspective of someone who has never been marginalized.
Each chapter also ends with a list of other books (notably also mostly by other white men) and a link back to the website for more resources. If you're into self help books or are interested in an office communications 101 this may be more interesting to you.
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