1. Edition - August 2004
10.90 Euro
2004. 200 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-84112-637-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-84112-637-1 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
Pink Elephants are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong signals to anyone you communicate with. In Drop the Pink Elephant, Bill McFarlan reveals how to avoid the deadly trap of allowing poor communication skills to obscure your meaning and reduce your effectiveness. Drop the Pink Elephant is filled with helpful, simple and practical advice on how to make one's words count for more. By putting these straightforward lessons into practice, readers will notice immediately how much more effectively they are able to communicate with others.

From the contents
World's Top Ten Pink Elephants.

Foreword.

Introduction.

SECTION ONE: DUMP THE BAGGAGE AND CREATE CLARITY.

1. Drop the Pink Elephant.

2. Every Picture Tells a Story.

SECTION TWO: BE PRINCIPLED IN WHAT YOU SAY.

3. Staying on the Louisiana Highway.

4. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.

5. Tell the Unpalatable Truth, Rather than the 'White Lie'.

6. Thank You and Well Done.

7. Who Looks Stupid When You Criticize in Public?

SECTION THREE: POSITIVELY ASSERT YOURSELF.

8. Flush Out thewatering Down Words.

9. Talk Positively About Yourself.

SECTION FOUR: THINK OF THE AUDIENCE.

10. It's All Relative.

11. Email and Text--Bullets or Boomerangs.

12. Three Little Questions.

SECTION FIVE: CREATE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING.

13. Listen First to Understand.

14. Powerful Words.

15. Think, Talk, Act....Then Tell the World.

Appendix: What do Your Words Say About You?

Index.