Conversationally Speaking

Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness

Alan Garne | 4.10 | 784 ratings and reviews

Ranked #49 in Social Skills, Ranked #62 in Conversation

A NEW FEMALE CO-AUTHOR! We are delighted to announce that beginning in the Fall of 2020, Dr. Amanda Goodwin, an Associate Professor of Communications Arts at Penn State, known as the nation's #1 school for teaching social skills, will become the lead co-author of an updated "Conversationally Speaking." Rated by her students as "amazing," she will bring a greater female dimension to the book.

This is an updated cover edition of 9781565656291.
This is the most popular book in the world teaching conversational skills. More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides more ways to improve conversational skills by asking questions that promote conversation, learning how to listen so that others will be encouraged to talk, reducing anxiety in social situations and more.

Co-author Alan Garner, MA, is a nationally known communications consultant and a longtime teacher. He has taught hundreds of "Conversationally Speaking" workshops and over 5 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. This book teaches simple skills for doing well socially in everyday language, which is why it has been popular in its various editions for 40 years and has sold 1 million copies.

Toastmaster Magazine writes: "'Conversationally Speaking' is the classic how-to book in social communication."

Carolyn Hax, a columnist for the "Washington Post" whose work appears in 200 newpapers, wrote: "Alan Garner is brilliant at teaching social skills to those who need or want to start at the beginning- who feel they somehow missed out on life classes that everyone else got to attend."

"Conversationally Speaking" is recommended by hundreds of therapists for people who want better relationships. These include Dr. Albert Ellis, the founder of the Rational Emotive School of Psychology, who called this book: "An exceptionally clear, highly effective book on conversational skills that uniquely includes a very sensible and useful section on rational thinking."

Aaron Beck, MD, University Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania wrote: "'Conversationally Speaking' is of great value for people who want to sharpen their skills in interpersonal relations. I routinely recommend it." less

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