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Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, degrades our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions, and causes us to disengage. In Getting Along, workplace expert and Harvard Business Review podcast host Amy Gallo identifies eight familiar types of difficult coworkers—the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased coworker, and others—and provides strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one.

Stop pushing each other away. Learn to build bridges instead of walls—even when you disagree. Satisfying relationships are built on the foundation of being heard, understood, and validated. Miscommunication can lead to conflict, misunderstandings, and loneliness. Uncover why your efforts at connection might be failing. In How to Talk, Listen, and Forgive, Zoe McKey addresses the core issues that prevent healthy communication. Learn how to respond rather than react, how to empathize even when -especially when- it’s hard, and maintain a secure bond over the long haul. This book provides ...

Dealing with People You Can't Stand has been helping good people deal with bad behavior in a positive, professional way for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, as the world becomes smaller and time more compressed, new difficult people are being made all the time. So Kirschner and Brinkman have updated their global best seller to help you wring positive results from even the most twisted interactions you're likely to experience today.

Speak the Language of Love: Master Communication Skills, Build Deeper Connections, and Begin the Transformation of Your Relationship Today! Do you feel like no matter how hard you try, your conversations with your partner end in frustration or misunderstanding? Are you longing for deeper connection, greater empathy, and a partnership built on trust and understanding? Every couple faces communication challenges. Whether it’s recurring arguments, feeling unheard, or struggling to express your emotions clearly, these obstacles can strain even the most loving relationships. But there’s good...

The Prompt Recipe: A Practical Guide to Prompt Engineering and AI Interaction Unlock the full potential of AI tools like ChatGPT—without guesswork, gimmicks, or copy-paste hacks. If you’ve used generative AI, you’ve seen both its promise and its pitfalls. Sometimes it delivers exactly what you need. But more often, the results feel generic, vague, or off-target. The problem isn’t the tool—it’s how we’re using it. This book introduces a powerful idea: a great prompt isn’t a magic formula, it’s a thinking strategy. Whether you're a consultant, entrepreneur, marketer, manager...

Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over 30 years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition.

Would you like to build a stronger relationship? This relationship book for couples will help you get to know each other on a new level, with activities and games centered around having carefree fun. COUPLES THERAPY WORKBOOK is a series of guided questions and exercises to promote meaningful couple conversations and build ongoing, connected communication. It is presented weekly over the course of 7 weeks. However, it may be adjusted to fit any timeline and developed to be utilized by couples and clinicians working with couples in a marriage counseling setting. Evidence-Based Marriage ...

At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their—and your own—emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.

"Talk" seems so normal, so ordinary, so harmless. Yet there are few things we do that are more important. And underneath the normality of it all is a great struggle, a war of words that we fight every day. Who hasn't been hurt by the words of another? Who hasn't regretted something they said? Recognizing that words are powerful, Paul Tripp shows us how the gospel transforms the way we communicate. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word is the only hope for our words. In our war of words, he is the one who gives us the victory.

2025 Edition - Updated With All Modern Anger Management Insights + 5 Exclusive Bonuses Included To Help You Raise Happy, Healthy Kids! Break Free From Frustration and Discover the Secret to Raising Emotionally Secure, Happy Children—While Staying Patient and In Control (Parenting & Anger Management Expert Approved!) Does your child's behavior often test your patience, pushing you to the edge and causing a surge of anger? Have you tried countless strategies, but still find heated arguments flaring up at home, causing endless frustration and stress? Do you finally want to end yelling and ...

This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges's decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. Adopted by clinicians around the world, the Polyvagal Theory has provided exciting new insights into the way our autonomic nervous system unconsciously mediates social engagement, trust, and intimacy.

Do you want to: Break free from the cycle of anxiety and build secure, healthy relationships with confidence? Say goodbye to emotional dependency and have love without fear of abandonment?Are You: Done over analyzing texts and seeking reassurance, only to feel worse in the end? Tired of feeling like you’re "too much" in relationships—too needy, too anxious, too insecure? No More Anxious Attachment gives you the tools to break free from relationship anxiety, overcome fear of abandonment, and build secure, confident connections. If you're tired of overanalyzing texts and feeling "too much...

Michael Chad Hoeppner has coached presidential candidates, prominent CEOs, and Ivy League deans on their communication skills. Now, he shares his wide‑ranging knowledge in Don't Say Um. Hoeppner has created an entirely new approach to communication training, providing physical exercises to quickly improve speaking. With simple-to-master exercises, Don’t Say Um is an essential tool for improving your speech. Don't Say Um challenges our preconceived notions of good speaking techniques and offers powerful tools to become master communicators.

Granville N. Toogood is a top executive communications expert, as well as an established speaker, trainer, and writer. Before starting his own company in 1982, Mr. Toogood was a television reporter and network news producer for NBC and ABC. Today, he works with a long list of blue-chip clients and has served as a consultant to 38 of the Fortune 500 CEOs, as well as thousands of senior-level executives, elected officials, and diplomats throughout the world. This book is based on his acclaimed corporate workshops in executive communications.

Psychic Medium Priscilla Keresey delivers stories, connections, and messages of hope and reunion in this light-hearted, personal book. After a brief tale of her own introduction to the paranormal, the author shares funny, poignant, and insightful words straight from the spirit people themselves. Together, the living and the dead seek forgiveness, solve family mysteries, find closure, settle scores, and come together for birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations. Quoting directly from her readings and séances, Priscilla reports the spirit perspective on mental illness, suicide, religion, ...

Do you ever feel like your relationships are missing something, and you're not sure what that something is? Do you crave deeper connections but don't know how to get there? You're not alone. Discover the transformative power of empathy and emotional validation in this comprehensive guide by Daniel Brooks, an experienced counselor and communication expert. This practical toolkit provides hands-on solutions to common relationship challenges like: Endless miscommunications and arguments Feeling unheard and misunderstood Emotional distance and lack of intimacy Digitally distracted partners ...

This easy-to-use, empowering book provides everything needed to lay your foundation for connecting with loved ones in spirit. Build your skills through practical techniques and hands-on exercises. Explore the different types of mediumship, what it is and isn't, and its roots in spiritualism. Learn how to gather information from those you connect with in spirit and how to overcome common fears and challenges.

Do you ever feel that your words produce the exact opposite effect of what you were hoping for - escalating tensions rather than solving problems? Author of Emotional Bullshit Carl Alasko has found that with the right guidance, anyone can learn effective communication skills. In Say This, Not That, Alasko presents readers with simple instructions for what to say...and what not to say.

Whether you are looking to position yourself as an industry expert, extend your sphere of influence, or gain the support and backing of vital constituencies, The 7 Principles of Public Speaking will give you the tools you need to achieve your goal.

The thesis of this book is quite simple and intuitive: If you want to look for evidence for the afterlife, observe the dying, to see if there’s any indication that they’re going somewhere. Researchers are finding that several experiences related to death are global and quite common, including: Primary Deathbed Experiences, where over 80% of the dying in a hospice unit report vivid experiences with deceased relatives and angels Terminal Lucidity, where people lose brain function over time, only to regain full consciousness to say their goodbyes before dying Shared Death Experiences, ...