Talk Ain't Cheap...It's Priceless! Connecting in a Disconnected World [Perfect Paperback]

Eileen McDargh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2007

Survey after survey has shown that effective communication is critical to business success. In order to be a great leader you have to be a great communicator. You must be able to TALK to people in order to connect with them. Yet, many leaders fall short when it comes to this all-important skill. People aren't talking. Organizations are losing employees, customers and money every single day. This book will help ensure that doesn't happen to you by helping you communicate more effectively with your team members, colleagues and customers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

My friends at Walk the Talk Company have just released a new handbook. This one is called Talk Ain t Cheap...It s priceless: Connecting in a Disconnected World. Eileen McDargh is the author. Ms. McDargh has been a consultant, speaker and trainer since 1980. She is in the Speaker Hall of Fame, and has been ranked by Executive Excellence magazine as one of the top 100 thought leaders in business leadership. She knows what she s talking about. Talk Ain t Cheap...It s Priceless focuses on building effective verbal communication skills. As you ll recall, conversation skills along with writing and presentation skills -- is one of the hallmarks of a good communicator. The back cover says it well: Certainly, no one intends to be a careless communicator, a lousy listener, or a terrible talker. But too often we take verbal communication for granted. We re unaware of what we say and do and how unintentional missteps can discourage others from work with us and for us...Fact is, being able to connect with the hearts and minds of customers, colleagues and employees have never been more important. Each section of the handbook ends with a checklist for priceless talk. Eileen dispenses important common sense advice in Talk Ain t Cheap...It s Priceless. I highly recommend this handbook. Like all of the Walk the Talk Handbooks, it contains a lot of wisdom in a small package. --Bud Bilanich--The Common Sense Guy

About the Author

Eileen McDargh, has become noted for her ability to speak the truth with clarity, wisdom, humor and compassion. Long-standing clients and repeate engagements attest to her commitment to make a difference in the minds, hearts and spirits organizations and individuals. Executive Magazine has ranked her has one fo the top 100 thought leaders in business leadership. Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of the 4500-member National Speakers Association.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: The Walk The Talk Company (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885228821
• ISBN-13: 978-1885228826
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,878,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, is a professional speaker, an award-winning business author of five books, a consultant to national and international organizations and a skilled facilitator/moderator.

Since founding McDargh Communications in 1980, Eileen McDargh has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. She motivates and inspires while sharing tools and techniques to help the audience meet their professional and personal goals.

Eileen delights audiences all over the world while teaching them to be resilient and engaged at both work and at home. Meeting planners love working with Eileen because she engages the minds and hearts of the audience through extensive preparation & involvement in the entire event.

She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranks her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development. Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, also named her as one of the World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

She authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance - a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless - Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations and her book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in 2008. This book has been adapted for a training film scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2011. Her newest book My Get Up and Go... Got Up and Went was published in 2011.

As a business author and commentator, she's appeared on network news, on radio programs and in business journals and in major metropolitan newspapers.

Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith and boardroom poet, David Whyte.

"You are not a speaker; you're an experience (and great fun). And the message was so important. I'm already thinking differently."

Bob Lund, Chairman and CEO of Egistics Inc.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Communicate your way to leadership success!, July 9, 2007

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Tamra L. Magel (Frisco, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Ain't Cheap...It's Priceless! Connecting in a Disconnected World (Perfect Paperback)

I always hesitate to purchase "leadership communication books". So often the ideas are either cheesey (which I hate) or ones I have read a million times. I can honestly tell you this book contains neither of those. The powerful words from McDargh are presented in such a well-written and conversational way. It's a quick-read yet jam-packed with ideas that you'll want to start implementing immediately.

McDargh reminds us that in this technical world of emails, voice mails, and text messages, it is all too often forgotten the value of "live" communication. It's so easy and quick to type an email...so easy that many of us have lost the ability to communicate effectively with our employees. No matter your level of expertise, this little book will not only remind you of the importance of communication, it will teach you many new techniques to keep that newly-found communication going throughout your organization.

I assure you---you will not be disappointed in this book. It will remind you of just how priceless TALK really is!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For leaders at all levels, June 4, 2007

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Joel A. Marks (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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In this small book, Eileen McDargh reveals a big secret. "If you look closely at great places to work and companies with high levels of worker engagement and retention," she writes, "you'll find a common factor. At the core, hidden behind policies and procedures, is a simple human ingredient: connected people." Connecting in the workplace is challenging and it all comes down to leadership communication. In a mere 60 pages, this book offers a king's ransom of insights, stories, and practical tips to help. So take the author's advice: "Start talking and get to work." What a refreshing place to begin!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read For Anyone In Business, December 31, 2011

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Bonnie Jo Davis "Loves to read and review books!" (Southern CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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Although this book was written for leaders in business organizations it is very applicable to anyone in the business from the frontline to the CEO. The bottom line in all relationships is connection and the author uses assessments, advice, stories, quotes and anecdotes to keep her readers interested and engaged.

The information in the book will help you become a better conversationalist and listener, offers unique ways to make meetings more productive, tells you who you should be talking with and tells you how to talk so that people will listen.

Organizations that connect with their employee and customers stay in business and make more money. They have less turnover, employees are more engaged and productive and stock holders are happy. If your company wants to enjoy these benefits then you need to get this book into the hands of everyone that works for you. I only wish some of the people I worked for in the past had read this book!