Power Phrases: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want [Paperback]

Meryl Steinunn Runion (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2002

Have you ever needed to express yourself but did not because you could not find the right words? Have you ever walked away from a situation and thought of the perfect thing to say AFTER it was too late? Have you ever given a long explanation and wondered-is there a faster, more effective way to communicate?

PowerPhrases(tm)! is the answer to those problems and questions. PowerPhrases(tm)! provides a toolbox of the perfect expressions to get your point accross clearly and confidently. This book provides powerful words when you need them most. You will learn the exact words to assure common understanding, clear up conflict, establish a connection, get what you want and refuse what you don't want. Knowing what to say results in increased confidence, enhanced self-esteem, refinement and professionalism and the ability to slide out of sticky situations with grace and ease. PowerPhrases(tm)! tells you exactly what to say.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Meryl Runion has created an absolute winner! -- Linda Larsen, Author 12 Secrets to High Self Esteem

Meryl Runion has written a compelling tool for the executive who wants to polish his or her communications skills" -- Roy Neel, Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff,Former President&CEO US Telecom Assn

Book Description

Being Clear, Kind and Direct Can Get You What You Want in Life.
Have You EVER been in a situation where you knew you should say something, but…you didn’t have the right words to say it? Never be left speechless again. Stand up and be heard!
Here's What You Get!
1.  Searchable CD - Find the perfect phrase fast!
2. Questions and answers - See how PowerPhrases apply to daily life.
3. A 3-Step Process for saying “no.” - Get control of your life.
4. Exit lines - Gracefully get out of sticky situations.
5. The CASE formula - A four-step process to manage conflict.
6. 8 Steps to create your own PowerPhrases - The tools to speak powerfully.
7. Communication survey - Discover your own communication style & how to speak to people with different styles.
8. PowerPhrases Quick Reference Guide - Go directly to the phrases you need.
9. Success stories - Read how others have applied PowerPhrases!
10. Hundreds of carefully crafted phrases - Words that have been proven to work.

“If you’d like to be able to say what you mean and mean what you say without being mean when you say it, I wrote this book for you. I know what a difference the tools in this book can make. Let them make a difference for you.”  - Meryl Runion, CSP

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Power Potentials Publishing (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971443726
• ISBN-13: 978-0971443723
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Meryl Runion, CSP is a certified speaking professional and the author of more than six books about powerful communication that have sold over a quarter million copies worldwide. Her clients include companies such as IBM, associations such as the International Association of Administrative Professionals and agencies such as the IRS and the FBI.

Runion says she is a recovered passive who "had enough staying silent" and became "a woman on a mission to learn to say things in pleasantly powerful ways." Training and writing about the Speak Strong Method, Runion empowers people to "say what they mean, mean what they say, and not be mean when they say it."

Meryl Runion lives in Cascade, Colorado.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Phrases, Little Depth, February 16, 2006

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Evan Day (Rogers, AR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Phrases: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want (Paperback)

This book follows a very specific format: After establishing the difference between a "Power Phrase" and a "Killer Phrase," in the first few chapters, it spends each proceeding chapter dealing with a specific situation (salesmanship, managment situations) and presents lists of "Don't say this" followed by lists of "Do say this" decorated in the background with pop psychology and old fashioned motivational stories, many of which could have come off an internet e-mail chain.

The principles here aren't bad, and I suppose will be quite helpful to some, though it seemed extremely "academic" to me. Essentially, this is another "rules to live by" book with a gimmick that's promised to turn your life around. And like most of these books, some people find it helpful, while others like myself are mightily underwhelmed. To be honest, the whole process of consciously selecting "the right phrase" out of a book for a given situation seems rather artificial to me.

All and all I'd probably be more generous in this review if I'd read it casually on my own time instead of having it thrust upon me as part of a graduate level college course. For that, I expect more than this.

But for its easy readability, and practical merits, I give it a three.

Just don't pay college bookstore price for it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Opened my eyes, February 2, 2002

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T. D. Bound (Mid West USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Phrases: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want (Paperback)

No letters after my name, just an ordinary Ted. Skimmed the first time through, second time read the illustrations {in grey}, read it the third time. Now I know how "they" do "it"! Been upset with myself every time I feel I'm getting the short end of the stick, controlled, or rolled over by others. Now I can hear it coming, the key words and phrases "they" use to get their own way. So simple when you can hear "see" it coming, to think of correct words or phrases for strong responses of your own. The author does not teach "it" as a control method, but as a way of not allowing yourself to be blown over when others are trying to control you. T. D. Bound

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is what PowerPhrases can do for you!, December 23, 2002

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Kjersti Keen (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Phrases: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want (Paperback)

I have always felt awkward in new situations where I have to make small talk with people I've just met. I become nervous, self-conscience and end up just putting my foot in my mouth! Well, those days of awkwardness are over! PowerPhrases gave me the tools and insider tips that make people successful conversationalists. Author Meryl Runion gives examples and hints that you read and then store away in your mind for future use. Once I read the chapter: Small Talk PowerPhrases to Break the Ice", I noticed other chapters that I needed help in: PowerPhrases for Saying "No", PowerPhrases for Negotiations, Communicating with Co-Workers, etc.-before I knew it, I'd read the whole book! I would recommend PowerPhrases to ANYONE that has ever worried about not saying the right thing. It will change your life!