Mastering Communication at Work is based on 45 years of research and working with over half-a-million clients around the world. From leaders of countries to leaders of companies to people just starting out in their career, Becker and Wortmann teach techniques that start with the essential wisdom of Aristotle and include the best practices in today’s global organizations.The book includes interviews with leaders who reveal the inside story of the communication secrets at:

The classic international bestseller, updated for the hybrid work world, including a new chapter on virtual communication.Excellent communicating skills have always been crucial to success in leadership and management roles—and that’s one of the reasons the first edition of this book, Mastering Communication at Work, has been an international bestseller taught at universities and referred to by leading CEOs. In the years since it was first published, it’s ...

Excellent communicating skills have always been crucial to success in leadership and management roles—and that's one of the reasons the first edition of this book, Mastering Communication at Work, has been an international bestseller taught at universities and referred to by leading CEOs. In the years since it was first published, it's been the go-to "communication playbook," helping leaders develop strategic responses and communication tactics with clear, actionable advice.

Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for plann...

Kyle Foster's summer starts off in an interesting way when he encounters a space object that crash-lands in the forest. Kyle goes off to investigate, and the UFO zaps him with incredible power. As the weeks go by, Kyle learns that he now has control of this power, and it changes everything, including his relationships with his best friends. On top of the usual worry of a teen, Kyle becomes aware that there is another UFO related to the first heading toward Earth. Kyle's caution proves true...

Time travel? Extraterrestrial visitors? Is it possible? What happens when ordinary folks, in an ordinary town, accidentally encounter time travel. A series in four books. Good readers eight to twelve. In this second book, meet Wilton Sunnyday III, his Mother, Old Mr. Neighbor, Attey and other citizens from the town of Littleberg plus two young travelers from the galaxy of Sagittarius stranded in their broken space ship.

Time travel? Extraterrestrial visitors? Is it possible? What happens when ordinary folks, in an ordinary town, accidentally travel in time. A series in four books. Good readers eight years and older. In book one we meet, Paula, a black hole traveling funnel, the bridge over the edge of time, young Tim from the early 21st century, Tairnellig, guardian of the edge of time Sector III, Trollamahr, a young girl and her freshly picked blackberries from 1869, and two young hippies from 1969.

THE SOUL SHIFTERS BEGINS: JAKE GREYLAND is an introduction to a suspenseful trilogy of novels that tell the gripping story of what happens when the brilliant 18 year old, Jake Greyland, is in a hideous accident and awakens in another young-man's body. Jake and his 19 year old friend, Miguel, are forced into a life-and-death battle to prevent the murder of the girl that Jake loves.

The return of Ant and Cleo. Reviewers said of Saucerers and Gondoliers:"the book is an absolute riot" - Maria Violante"a perfectly enjoyable short romp" - Chris Gerrib, Pod People

If zany parents, horrible teachers, a tomboy best friend, the gorgeous star of the school play, and a drooling dachshund named Shoelace represented the normal side of Monty Watford's young life, then mysterious Tricksters, his vengeful Shadow, a worrying case of missing school children, and learning to control even the flow of time itself were about to take him to a very very unusual and exciting place indeed!Monty is your average, mediocre, happy-go-lucky school kid, content to co...

Deep in the bowel's of Zeaburg's infamous prison the young druid Slade is plagued by a bizarre and troubling dream. In the dream his father, High King Erich of Vestland, appeals for his son's help.Somehow Slade must do the impossible and escape to save not only his father but all the Kingdoms of Kaynos from the threat of the most brutal war Kaynos has ever seen from a new, deadly form of magic.