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The Best Kept Secrets of Great Communicators: Nine Secret Weapons to Shine Socially, Uncover Opportunities, and Be Perceived as Smarter, Sharper, and Savvier

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Peter Thompson gives a comprehensive method of improving your communication skills. He gives 9 "secrets" and expounds on them, giving examples, defining them, and tell you how to improve them. These secrets (not in any particular order) include active listening, using body language, asking questions, and others.

The great thing about it is that it is entertaining and practical. I enjoyed listening to it and then trying to apply them in my life. Any person in business needs these skills, and I would say anyone can benefit from it, since we all communicate with others (well, unless you are a hermit in the mountains I suppose).

He also gives tips on how to better practice these skills and use the audio. Overall, it was a great program.

These best kept secrets aren't very well kept secrets, because I knew most of them already. I heard some of these secrets from other sources before I heard them from Peter Thomson. However, they are great communication skills and they do work. I just didn't like Peter Thomson's low-pitched English accent and voice very much. I found it hard to concentrate on what he was saying even when I was using some of his listening techniques. I had to turn the volume way up and the bass way down on my car stereo in order to digest what he was saying. Maybe his book would be better for me. Overall, it's a very good audio cd if you can stand to listen to it. (4.5 stars)

This audio program is one of the best compilations of the proven methods of successful communication and influence. I love the wide scope and in-depth scale he goes into in this audio program. Peter Thomson is "one of UK's leading strategists on businesses and personal growth."

This CD book gives great advice for one-on-one or public communication. I am taking its advice to listen to it repeatedly and am on the 3rd listening right now and get something new from each listening. This is probably the best money I spent on a CD book.

I found the material to be very weak. For the most part a watered down re mash of information that is readily available. The narrators voice is very annoying.

So much promised so little delivered. They could have put the meat of the piece in less than half of one disc but choose to use 6 filled with nothing of importance.