In this affordable Cengage Advantage Books version of COMMUNICATING WITH CREDIBILITY AND CONFIDENCE (WITH SPEECHBUILDER EXPRESS AND INFOTRAC) you will discover the key to communicating successfully in any situation. This innovative text reveals the basic skills of oral communication and emphasizes important points with skill-building exercises and activities. Your purchase includes access to SpeechBuilder Express an online outlining tool that helps you step-by-step through the outlining process as well as access to InfoTrac College Edition's online university library of full length articles.
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Many professionals have a great store of technical knowledge and an impressive professional vocabulary, but lack the essential interpersonal commnunications skills necessary for effective management. This book solves the problem technically trained managers face by providing a clear, practical set of principles and methods that will enable them to work effectively and successfully with subordinates, peers, and superiors.
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The burgeoning literature in Freudian, interpersonal, object-relational, relational, and self-psychological psychoanalysis increasingly directs our attention to basic questions about communication. How do analysts communicate with themselves and their patients? What facilitates openness to self-awareness on the part of patient and analyst alike? And, most saliently, how does each participant in an analytic process influence the other? In this richly textured examination of communication, Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage hold that all manner of analytic communication — verbal and nonverbal, implicit and explicit, procedural and symbolic — implicates and falls back on a persistent spirit of inquiry. The spirit of inquiry is the guiding attitude that underlies the analytic process; indeed, psychoanalysis itself signifies that special type of intimacy that grows out of a shared spirit of inquiry. Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes. Via the uniquely human capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into, and deciphering motivation-driven messages. The analytic exchange is unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges: moments of addressing serious questions; of playing with images; of suspending thought and giving way to pressing physiological needs or to feelings of love or hate. It is the spirit of inquiry that endows such communicative moments with an overarching sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate relationship decisively unlike any other. In elucidating the special character of this relationship, the authors refine their understanding of motivational systems theory by showing how exploration, previously conceptualized as a discrete motivational system, simultaneously infuses all the motivational systems with an integrative dynamic that tends to a cohesive sense of self. Of equal note is their discerning use of contemporary attachment research, which provides convincing evidence of the link between crucial relationships and communication. Replete with detailed case studies that illustrate both the context and nature of specific analytic inquiries, A Spirit of Inquiry presents a novel perspective, sustained by empirical research, for integrating the various communicative modalities that arise in any psychoanalytic treatment. The result is a deepened understanding of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in analytic relationships. Indeed, the book is a compelling brief for the claim that subjectivity and intersubjectivity, in their full complexity, can only be understood through clinically relevant and scientifically credible theories of motivation and communication.
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Gaining a thorough understanding of today's complex workplace is of vital importance to both business professionals and academics—not only because it leads to a deeper understanding of individual motivation in the work context, but also because it reveals ways in which work practices can be improved. This requirement for both understanding and action has become especially pressing in the area of "learning in organizations" as businesses have become ever more "knowledge-based." There is now an urgent need to comprehend how people and organizations learn, and then to store and transfer the resulting new knowledge to facilitate the design of work environments and practices. Learning from Work directly addresses this growing workplace need by examining how people communicate and learn in one of the most complex of industry structures: the automobile industry. It is the very nature of this industry's complexity that makes this study so valuable. The combination of global scale, plus the nature of the relationships between the manufacturers and the dealerships (the dealerships are independent businesses that are only loosely coupled to the manufacturers) make the barriers to communication and learning quite high, and make the solutions to overcoming them applicable in many different work environments.Anne Beamish suggests that the only way is to increase learning and improve collaboration and communication in complex organizations is to apply design thinking. This is the only comprehensive method, she claims, that can unleash the kind of innovative and effective solutions required to overcome the inherent structural, procedural, and political barriers.
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This digital document is an article from Communication Disorders Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 8002 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: An analysis of child caregivers' language during book sharing with toddler-age children.(Report)Author: Paula M. RhynerPublication: Communication Disorders Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)Date: March 22, 2007Publisher: Thomson GaleVolume: 28 Issue: 3 Page: 167(12)Article Type: ReportDistributed by Thomson Gale
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