| How to Talk to Anyone |  | Author: Leil Lowndes
Publisher: McGraw Hill Text
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,244
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.2
Publication Date: September 19, 2003
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Product Description
"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. What is that magic quality 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 (see the 5-star reviews of the latter)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!
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 confidence 101 August 31, 2010
Browning
I use to be so incredibly shy that I didn't even want to leave my house. At one point my father died and I realized my own mortality and decided to go out and become a better person and to get over my shyness. I bought a few books on confidence building and books on how to hold conversations with people. I had very bad friends who put me down and who were completely selfish. I just had bad company.
This book helped me so much in understanding how to hold a conversation with people. Leil Lowndes is a great writer and she really udnerstands what it takes to become more confident in your conversation and in yourself as a person.
Could you use this to be phony and superficial? Yup, but that's up to your personality and what you wish to take from this book. I decided to use this to be able to understand how to hold conversations with people and know how to create relationships. I used this one technique called the flooding smile and that as well as a few other techniques from this book and I'm now dating this beautiful girl and have a few new friends who are positive and make me feel good about myself. I bought this and the other books by Leil Lowndes. I'd definitely consider this book as one of my Meccas as well as a few other books.
 Great book for shy professionals August 3, 2010
B Sutton (Brooklyn, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Other reviewers called this book a how-to on being insincere and manipulative. I think they completely missed the point. This book is pure and simple a guide for professionals who are shy or need improvement in their social skills.
When you're in the business/professional world, social skills sign your checks, so this is an essential read for career-oriented people who are a little shy or are rusty at communicating. Not knowing how to make diplomatic small talk in this world is like showing up to work everyday wearing a HITLER WAS FRAMED t-shirt. The people who have natural social skills don't appreciate the fact that good social skills are taught. They're taught by parents, they're taught by friends, and some people just have to teach themselves. This book is pretty damn good for those people.
Don't follow all the tips July 14, 2010
T. T. Le
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book seems to encourage insincerity. The author tells the readers to fake a lot of things, like fake listening to a person into talking passionately, or giving them a compliment right away even though they "bombed" it.
With that said, this book does point out some good points. One of my favorite tips is to not give out a naked thank you to someone who does you a great favor, instead, make it "thank you for insert action". I like this tip because many times when a person is particularly helpful to me, I feel awkward just saying a plain thank you.
Overall, this book will help you brush up some of your communication skills. But be do be careful using some of the tips.
Used properly you will become a special person: used badly, your facade will be obvious July 9, 2010
James Taylor
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here is a great book which enables you to 'show others what they want to see'. I love the way the book is set out, and each idea is illustrated to perfection. I feel that, having these skills, the only important missing ingredient is personal congruence.
There are two ways to use this book: first, you can use the techniques to generate a manipulative facade, a lot of the ideas here could apply to a salesperson; second, you can use it to express a genuine attractive personality. People will eventually see through the former which gives only a short term gain, but in the case of the latter you will be more loved, valued and respected, greatly lifting your self-esteem for the rest of your life.
All the ideas are universal and would probably apply equally well to any nation in any language.
If I can be very British and quote Shakespeare, ' To thine own self be true'.
tips June 6, 2010
Mary Fairy (los angeles, ca, usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
useful book for those of us who are extremely shy and cant carry on conversations.
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