Contents: Basic listening skills for ministry. Paraphrase ; Productive questions ; Perception check ; Expression of feelings and emotions ; Fogging ; negative inquiry ; Behavior description -- Hearing the story. Story listening ; Story polarization listening -- Advanced listening skills for ministry. Life commandments ; The linguistic bridge. Abstract : "The secret to leadership and transfor…
Abstract: Milo Frank is America's foremost business communications consultant. He has discovered that the 30-secondmessage is the heart of every effective business communication, whether you are talking to your associates, selling an idea or a product, conducting a meeting, or giving a speech. Using examples from familiar everyday business situations, he will show you how to prepare and deliver…
Harnessing the power -- Who's at the controls? -- Consulting the marriage map -- Distance or intimacy -- Neglect or nurturing -- Indifference or loving -- In conflict: choices that make you a winning team -- Power struggles: the secret war -- Confusion or order: a master plan -- Strategies for your master plan -- The way to financial freedom -- In-laws and other challenges -- If you'd like to c…
Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index.
1. Personal communication -- Self-disclosure and listening -- Self perception and value orientation -- Seeing and not seeing -- Closure -- Experience and language -- Environmental awareness -- Categorization -- Perceptual context -- Object awareness -- Perceptual set -- Learning and change -- Assumptions -- Observations and inferences -- Predicting attitudes -- Silence -- Personal space -- Para…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.
Part 1. Talk is not cheap. God speaks ; Satan speaks ; The Word in the flesh ; Idol words -- Part 2. A new agenda for our talk ; He is King! ; Following the King for all the wrong reasons ; Speaking for the King ; Getting to the destination ; Citizens in need of help ; On the King's mission -- Part 3. Winning the war of words ; First things first ; Winning the war of words ; Choosing your words.
Telling the truth -- The gospel as tragedy -- The gospel as comedy -- The gospel as fairy tale.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-191).