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Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work

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In Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work, Michael Dodd provides practical strategies for handling challenging questions in professional settings. The book offers insights into effective communication techniques, helping readers boost their confidence and preparedness in delivering thoughtful and articulate responses during difficult conversations. It's an essential guide for anyone seeking to improve their communicative prowess in the workplace.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to enhance your communication skills in professional settings. It's tailored for anyone who wants to confidently tackle challenging questions, offering practical advice and strategies for staying calm and articulate under pressure. Perfect for improving workplace interactions and progressing in your career.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunities Difficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you ve made it to the top.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunities

Difficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you’ve made it to the top. If you find yourself on the firing line on a regular or occasional basis, this is the perfect go-to guide to help you turn tough questions into positive opportunities.

Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work promotes a confident 'win-win-win' mindset for the questioner, answerer, and wider audiences beyond. Author Michael Dodd provides golden formulae and proven strategies for constructing inspirational answers—however challenging, vicious, tricky, or stupid the question. He outlines simple but successful techniques for dealing with the kind of nightmare questions all ambitious people in the workplace have to face along their journey, whatever stage of their career.

The book:

  • Contains critical communication skills for executives, managers, leaders, and those aspiring to fill these roles.
  • Covers a wide range of workplace scenarios such as job interviews, performance reviews, negotiations, customer relations, parliamentary inquiries, and cross-examination.
  • Discusses how to see the issues underlying tough questions that you face in a different, more positive, solution-oriented way.
  • Includes case study examinations of key moments where people in the public spotlight have done something particularly well or particularly badly while answering questions and draws out the lessons for readers.

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Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work is praised for being essential for leaders and ambitious individuals in the workplace, especially for introverts like accountants and IT specialists who seek to enhance their conversational abilities. It is recommended not just as a professional resource but also as enjoyable reading, making it a suggested addition to briefcases and bookshelves.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780857086396

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 June 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Capstone Publishing Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 399g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Michael Dodd (Midlands, UK) is a speaker and international media and presentation trainer, working with businesses of all sizes. Michael speaks weekly (schedule attached in appendix below) and his targeted newsletter is distributed to 2000 people each month. His clients include representatives of UK Trade and Investment, in embassies, high commissions and consulates around the world. He speaks with audiences of United Nations officials on answering questions from the media in global trouble spots.
Michael also teaches as a Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster and does media training for university clients, professors and business students. He also delivers guest lectures in other universities around the world.
Trained as a broadcast journalist, Michael has worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the AM programme, and then as the foreign correspondent travelling the world covering politics and revolutions.

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