Chapter 3

Communicate Your Way to Success

Communication works for those that work at it.

—John Powell

Communication is an important skill to understand and a powerful tool to master. Great communicators understand that the goal of communication is twofold: to share ideas for personal and professional development and to form relationships. The best are diligent and passionate about doing both. There are almost limitless ways to communicate verbally and nonverbally. We communicate with our voice, body language, tone, attitude, expressions, silence, timing, and appearance, to name just a few. But with so many different ways to communicate, it can be difficult to know which way is the best. And since we use different mediums at the same time when ...

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