“When you act as though you like someone, you start to really like them.”
What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?
What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.
The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques – she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find:
- 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression
- 14 ways to master small talk, “big talk,” and body language
- 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity
- 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd
- 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone
- 9 ways to feed someone’s ego (and know when NOT to!)
- 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool
- 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room
- 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive
In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you’ll remember them when you really need them, including: “Rubberneck the Room,” “Be a Copyclass,” “Come Hither Hands,” “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky,” and “Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.
How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner’s Way is based on solid research about techniques that work!
By the way, don’t confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil’s previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different! [From: Amazon.com]
“whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot. That image of you becomes the data they deal with for a very long time.”
Never be at a loss for words again!
Perfect your people skills with this fun, witty and informative guide, containing 92 little tricks to create big success in personal and business relationships.
In How To Talk To Anyone, bestselling relationships author and internationally renowned life coach Leil Lowndes reveals the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. These extremely usable and intelligent techniques include how to:
• Work a party like a politician works a room
• Be an insider in any crowd
• Use key words and phrases to guide the conversation
• Use body language to connect
This is the key to having successful conversations with anyone, any time. [From: Harpercollins.co.uk]
“The study showed women who were slower to smile in corporate life were perceived as more credible.” As Missy talked, I began to think about history-making women like Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Madeleine Albright, and other powerful women of their ilk. Not one was known for her quick smile. Missy continued, “The study went on to say a big, warm smile is an asset. But only when it comes a little slower, because then it has more credibility.” From that moment on,”
Just as a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, a relationship that will last a lifetime can begin with a single glance, gesture or word. In this book, Leil Lowndes gives you techniques for introductions and initial conversations. It doesn’t stop there. You’ll read tips on how to keep a conversation going, how to thank someone, how to ask for a favour and much more.
The book is divided into eight sections:
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How to Intrigue Everyone Without Saying a Word: You Only Have Ten Seconds to Show You’re a Somebody
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How to Know What to Say After You Say “Hi”
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How to Talk Like a VIP
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How to Be An Insider in Any Crowd: What Are They All Talking About?
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How to Sound Like You’re Peas in a Pod: “Why, We’re Just Alike”
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How to Differentiate The Power of Praise from the Folly of Flattery
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How to Direct Dial Their Hearts
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How to Work a Party Like a Politician Works a Room: The Politician’s Six Point Party Checklist
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How to Break the Most Treacherous Glass Ceiling of All: Sometimes People Are Tigers
With ninety-two techniques at your disposal, you’ll never be at a loss for words again. Knowing what to say and do (and when to say and do it!) can help you cement friendships, win customers and sail through social situations with ease. [From: Actionablebooks.com]
“Don’t flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though anyone who walked into your line of sight would be the beneficiary. Instead, look at the other person’s face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them.”
What 0thers say
“You’ll not only break the ice, you’ll melt it away with your new skills.” — Larry King
“The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes.” — Harvey McKay, author of“How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive”
About the Author:
Leil has devoted her professional life to helping people become more effective communicators in business, social, and romantic relationships.
The passion she brings to her writing and speaking on communication skills can be traced to childhood when she suffered almost debilitating shyness which lasted right through college. After being a teacher for six years and still feeling socially insecure, she decided to leave the teaching profession and work only in situations which put her in constant touch with a wide variety of individuals. Here is a short history of how she gained her insights and share them with the world.
After working with elementary school children, she decided to take the first step toward her goal by becoming an international flight attendant to feel at ease speaking with adults from all over the world. Still shy in front of crowds, however, tried acting to become confident on stage in. But, although she was very successful (even starring in a Broadway show,) she wasn’t satisfied simply speaking from a playwright’s script. To become comfortable addressing large audiences with her own “script,” she became a cruise director on ships traveling around the world. That exhausting experience of dealing with people almost 24 hours a day, she said, would cure anyone’s shyness!
Between trips, Leil worked as substitute host on New York’s #1 radio talk show. Interviewing celebrities and political figures is how she became confident talking to anybody about anything.
After decades of communicating with all types and ages of people, Leil decided to write and speak to groups to share her knowledge with the public. Leil now conducts seminars for Fortune 500 companies and speaks at conventions, but her favorite type of communicating is still one-on-one talking with people.
She has written ten books, many of which have been translated into 26 languages. The best selling ones include: “How to Talk to Anyone,” “How to Instantly Connect with Anyone,” Good-bye to Shy,” “How to Be a People Magnet,” and “How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You. [From: Amazon.com]
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