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    Make Yourself Clear: How to Use a Teaching Mindset to Listen, Understand, Explain Everything, and Be Understood
    Make Yourself Clear: How to Use a Teaching Mindset to Listen, Understand, Explain Everything, and Be Understood
    Make Yourself Clear: How to Use a Teaching Mindset to Listen, Understand, Explain Everything, and Be Understood
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    Make Yourself Clear: How to Use a Teaching Mindset to Listen, Understand, Explain Everything, and Be Understood

    By Dr. Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine

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    How can you communicate effectively and create meaningful interactions in an increasingly digital world? By teaching.

    In Make Yourself Clear, educational experts and entrepreneurs Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine explain the many parallels between teaching and business and offer companies, both large and small, concrete advice for building the teaching capacity of their salespeople, leaders, service professionals, and trainers.

    The rise of digital communications has led to three emergent, often problematic, forces: automation, an increase in the speed and volume of information transfer, and an unmet need for people to feel more than satisfied in their interpersonal transactions, particularly between sellers and consumers. 

    Through a mix of research, anecdotes, case studies, and theoretical speculation, this book equips readers to build understanding within their current and future audiences by leveraging the tools, methods, and mindsets used by successful teachers. You will be equipped to understand others better, and in turn, to be better understood.

    Make Yourself Clear is not prescriptive, nor does it suggest rigid steps, pillars, or frameworks. Instead, it provides immediately recognizable and relatable context, suggesting actions that can be tried, measured, tested, and iterated upon in any communication context that involves the exchange of information and ideas.

    • Ground your business communications in proven techniques
    • Profit from expert instruction given by those who have helped thousands of readers and workshop students
    • Develop your sales career by applying effective teaching practices to customer and colleague interactions
    • For educators, adopt the latest best practices into your teaching style

    Backed by thorough research and extensive real-world testing, Make Yourself Clear opens a door to more productive communication and more effective interactions. It offers compelling and relevant insights to longtime fans of the work of Richards and Valentine and newcomers alike, leading to real and lasting benefits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateApr 29, 2019
    ISBN9781119558583

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    • 4/5
      Dr Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine have provided a great read about how to improve how we communicate in the modern age of digital disruption, They explain the many parallels between teaching and business and offer us concrete advice for building our teaching capabilities .The book equips readers to build understanding within their current and future audiences by leveraging the tools, methods, and mindsets used by successful teachers. I learned about CYOA (Choose your own adventure) books and how to apply the principles that make them so effective. The book is based on research conducted in training and business environments and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their communication skills in the modern age. I decided to read the book from cover to cover however you can choose to tailor your reading to what interests you.

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