Profound Connection is Just a Conversation Away!
In this fully revised second edition, Dr. Dian Killian and Dr. Jane Marantz Connor offer a comprehensive and accessible guide for exploring the concepts, applications, and transformative power of the Nonviolent Communication process. Discover simple, yet transformative skills to create a life of abundance, where building the personal, professional and community connections you long for begins with a simple shift in thinking.
Now with an expanded selection of broadly applicable exercises, roleplays, and activities that challenge readers to immediately apply the concepts in every day life, this new edition opens the authors' insight to an even broader audience.
Detailed and comprehensive, this combined book and workbook enhances communication skills by introducing the basic NVC model, as well as more advanced NVC practices.
Relevant, meaningful exercises follow each concept, giving readers the chance to immediately apply the skills they've learned to real life experiences. Drawing on a combined 25 years of experience, the authors help readers to: - Transform negative self-talk into self empowerment
- Foster trust and collaboration when stakes are high
- Establish healthy relationships to satisfy your needs
- Defuse anger, enemy images, and other barriers to connection
- Get what you want
while maintaining respect and integrity
What People are Saying:
"Connecting Across Differences has changed how I approach my work and life. Using empathy to connect with
my feelings and needs and with the feelings and needs of the people around me has made me happier and more effective. Jane and Dian, thank you for guiding me on this journey." --ROBERT MCGUIRE, Executive Director, Merck, Inc.
"Dian Killian is remarkable woman with a great message that brings wisdom to the field of nonviolence." --HOWARD GLASSER, author, Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart
Approach
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"Breakthrough thinking from cover to cover.
The Empathy Factor
will help thoughtful business people add substance and dimension to relationships within the Workforce and with colleagues and customers." -JAMES B. HAYES, Former Publisher, FORTUNE Magazine
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning communication and organizational strategist Marie Miyashiro explores the missing element leaders must employ to build profits and productivity in the new economy—Empathy.
Building from the latest research in brain science, emotional intelligence, and organizational theory, Miyashiro offers both real-world insight and a practical framework to bring the
transformative power of empathy to your entire organization.
Miyashiro's approach combines more than 26 years of experience advising for-profit companies, government agencies, and nonprofits to substantially improve their organizational communication with a proven, world-renowned process from
the largest empathy-based community in the world.The Empathy Factor takes Dr. Marshall Rosenberg's work developing Compassionate Communication into the business community by introducing Integrated
Clarity®—a powerful framework you can use to understand and effectively meet the critical needs of your organization without compromising those of your employees or customers.
What People are Saying: "The Empathy Factor should be required reading for any manager
or supervisor."
—BILL MOORE, Senior Vice President, Ipitek Corporation; Former Vice President and General Manager, Ortel Corporation; Former Corporate Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard
"Marie has taken the widely heralded virtue of empathy and made it very accessible with numerous pragmatic strategies and tools. A must-read for any emerging leader!"
—ULRICH NETTESHEIM, Managing Partner, Passages Consulting;
Lecturer at Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley; Founder, Umanit
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Do You Want to be Happier, More Effective and Experience Less Stress at Work?
Do you wish for
more respectful work relationships? To move beyond gossip and power struggles to improved trust and productivity? If you've ever wondered if just one person can positively affect work relationships and company culture, regardless of your position, this book offers a resounding "yes".
The key is shifting how we think, and talk.Former attorney-turned-mediator, Ike Lasater, offers practical communication skills matched with recognizable work scenarios to help anyone address the most common workplace relationship challenges.
Learn proven communication skills to: - Enjoy your workday more
- Effectively handle difficult conversations
- Reduce workplace conflict and stress
- Improve individual and team productivity
- Be more effective at meetings
- Give and receive meaningful feedback
Ike Lasater, J.D., MCP, is a former attorney and cofounder of Words That Work, a consulting and training firm helping organizations achieve results through better communication and collaboration ( www.wordsthatwork.us). He has worked with individuals and organizations in the US, Australia, Hungary, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland and Sri Lanka. He is a former board member for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, and the co-founder of the Yoga Journal
magazine.
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“Think about your intention—are you getting lost in the method?
Or are you coming from the intention, the purpose?
You don’t want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
Intention is key— punitive or protective use of force—it’s your intention.”
~Marshall B. Rosenberg |
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