Communication At Work: 13 Books To Help You To Excel at Communication

If the cold weather and limited hours of daylight have you searching for inspiration, check out some of these brilliant books below to give yourself new insights and fresh ideas for exceptional communication at work.

And if you have ambitious professionals on your holiday shopping list this year, give them the gift that keeps on giving: knowledge. They will love you for the thoughtful present that simplifies their professional life and empowers them to make big moves in their career in 2016.

13 Brilliant Books To Inspire Exceptional Communication At Work

1. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

Summary: According to author Oren Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn’t an art–it’s a simple science. Applying the latest findings in the field of neuroeconomics, while sharing eye-opening stories of his method in action, Klaff describes how the brain makes decisions and responds to pitches. With this information, you’ll remain in complete control of every stage of the pitch process.

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal


 

2. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Summary: Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You’ll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals


 

3. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Summary: Dry facts and data fade from memory over time, but an engaging story is difficult to forget. In Hooked, communication and business storytelling experts Gabrielle Dolan and Yamini Naidu use real-world examples and proven, effective techniques to teach the skill of great business storytelling. They explain what good storytelling is, why business leaders need to learn it, how to create effective stories, and how to practice for perfection.

Hooked: How Leaders Connect, Engage and Inspire with Storytelling


 

4. Storytelling: 99 Inspiring Stories for Presentations: Inspire your Audience & Get your Message Through

Summary: After extensive research, Barry Powell has discovered and collected the most popular stories that businessmen and public speakers with strong communication skills, have been using for years to engage their audiences and offer them the best storytelling experiences!

 

Storytelling: 99 Inspiring Stories for Presentations: Inspire your Audience & Get your Message Through 


 

5. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication

Summary: Leading experts such as Deborah Tannen, Jay Conger, and Nick Morgan provide the insights and advice you need to:

–     Pitch your brilliant idea—successfully
–     Connect with your audience
–     Establish credibility
–     Inspire others to carry out your vision
–     Adapt to stakeholders’ decision-making styles
–     Frame goals around common interests
–     Build consensus and win support

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication


 

6. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

Summary:

World-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell says if you want to succeed, you must learn how to connect with people. And while it may seem like some folks are just born with it, the fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection. In Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, Maxwell shares the Five Principles and Five Practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting, including:

–     Finding common ground
–     Keeping your communication simple
–     Capturing people’s interest
–     Inspiring people
–     Staying authentic in all your relationships

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently


 

7. Golden Nugget Methods to Communicate Effectively

Summary: Communication is a vital part of human lives. Without it, there will be nothing but chaos. Whether you are communicating with your family, friends, co-workers or somebody you just met, it’s often difficult to say what you mean. Misunderstanding is what puts a huge gap between people. Failure to get your point across to someone can destroy relationships. This book will put all the scattered pieces together and form a very solid communication framework for everybody in order to build stronger relationships.

Communication: Golden Nugget Methods to Communicate Effectively


 

8. The Art of Communicating

Summary: In this precise and practical guide, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how to listen mindfully and express your fullest and most authentic self. With examples from his work with couples, families, and international conflicts, The Art of Communicating helps us move beyond the perils and frustrations of misrepresentation and misunderstanding to learn the listening and speaking skills that will forever change how we experience and impact the world.

The Art of Communicating


 

9. Strategic Storytelling: How to Create Persuasive Business Presentations

Summary: Strategic Storytelling is a complete guide to creating persuasive business presentations. Based on intensive study of presentations developed by leading management consulting firms, this step-by-step playbook shows you how to craft stories using proven narrative frameworks, design data-driven slides, and master your verbal and non-verbal delivery.

Strategic Storytelling: How to Create Persuasive Business Presentations


 

10. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

Summary: Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work. This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including:

–    Graphic recording, visual planning, story boarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc.
–    Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more
–    Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms
–    Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups

Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity


 

11. Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations

Summary: In this short but powerful book, Dan Roam introduces a new set of tools for making extraordinary presentations in any setting. He also draws on ideas he’s been honing for more than two decades, as an award-winning presenter who has brought his whiteboard everywhere from Fortune 500 companies to tiny startups to the White House.

Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations


 

12. Whiteboard Selling: Empowering Sales Through Visuals

Summary: Whiteboard Selling offers a step-by-step approach to transforming your message and selling style by using powerful visual stories that inspire and engage customers and prospects. Whiteboard Selling offers practical guidance and skills to enable marketing and sales teams to quickly adopt visual story telling practices that apply to today’s fast-moving, competitive selling environment.

Whiteboard Selling: Empowering Sales Through Visuals


 

13. Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

Summary: In Steal the Show, New York Times best-selling author Michael Port draws on his experience as an actor and as a highly successful corporate speaker and trainer to teach readers how to make the most of every presentation and interaction. He demonstrates how the methods of successful actors can help you connect with, inspire, and persuade any audience. His key strategies for commanding an audience’s attention include developing a clear focus for every performance, making sure you engage with your listeners, and finding the best role for yourself in order to convey your message with maximum impact.

Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life


 

Additional Resources:

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