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Communication Toolkit for Introverts

You're reading from   Communication Toolkit for Introverts With practical techniques optimized for introverts, find your voice in everyday business situations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783000685
Length 248 pages
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Patricia Weber Patricia Weber
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Communication Toolkit for Introverts
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Communication Preferences of Introverts and Extroverts FREE CHAPTER 2. Identify and Count on Your Introvert Strengths 3. Confident to Communicate 4. Your Hardworking Wrench: Tighten or Open up Your Listening 5. Your Headband Light - Succeeding in the Business Meeting 6. Tape Measure Your Success for Powerful Presentations 7. Do You Have an Axe to Grind? Use a Positive Approach for Workplace Conflict 8. On the Level to Negotiate with Success 9. Power Tools of Influence, Persuasion, and Selling 10. Quiet Communication can Triumph

Making a presentation like a one-to-one conversation


Most authorities would agree that when it comes to one-to-one relationships and communication, introverts excel. We listen more, we focus, and we enjoy diving deep into a conversation. We can take actions like this, which come to us naturally in these situations and put them to advantageous use in any kind of presentation.

Some of the characteristics in a chart in Chapter 5, Your Headband Light - Succeeding in the Business Meeting, are worth returning to as we explore how to, in making a presentation more like a one-to-one conversation, become more at ease and successful. Here are the characteristics in that chart most germane to this discussion of improving our presentation poise and presence:

Extroverts

Introverts

  • Prefer face-to-face meetings

  • Think while talking

  • Talk more

  • More interested in people

  • Breath of discussion

  • Distracted

  • Prefer e-mail (or online) meetings

  • Talk after thinking

  • Listen more

  • More interest in ideas

  • Depth of discussion

  • Concentrate...

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