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The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know

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This is an important read well worth your valuable time. By using the advice in this book, leaders and businesspeople will be able to communicate more effectively using straightforward, lucid conversation. When you apply Booher's ten key strategies to your personal and organizational communications, you'll avoid huge productivity drains such as rework, mistakes, and misunderstandings. The author uses clever alliteration to help the reader remember the ten strategies: Correct, Complete, Clear, unClear, Consistent, Credible, Concerned, Current, Competent, and Circular. Booher not only provides the rationale of why each strategy works but specific tactics to immediately apply them to your written and verbal messages. You'll discover why truth-telling is key to productivity; how your style may be creating a climate of paranoia; what to never put in email; and how to immediately engage someone in conversation. The end result: Powerful, purposeful prose that will help you obtain your communication goals.

The Voice of Authority is another gift from Diana Booher! Once again she has packaged a book of communication strategies for all of us. Dianna has condensed the contents of 43 books and 25 years of experience into 10 pearls of wisdom that will help you communicate with impact every time. Whether you read the "10 Reasons People Resist What You Say," the "Rationale for Email, Phone or Face to Face," or "Know What Never to Put in an Email," you will put this book down a wiser and more competent communicator.

Like the title of her book, Dianna truly is THE voice of authority when it comes to understanding and improving communication and this is another Booher bundle of brilliant basics for better communication! Buy your copy today and unwrap all the wisdom Dianna has enclosed in her latest gift to all of us.

Elaine Biech
ebb associates inc
Author, Training for Dummies
The Business of Consulting

Good book. Practical with useful usable content.
Highly recommended. One point I dont fully agree with is that information does not translate to execution (page 6). I believe information is used in context for all execution.

I bought the spanish version of this book. And I thought that it was a great book.Certainly the comment of Blanchard in the backcover was important for me to decide buying this book. But when I started to read it, I found it so so so BASIC!!!!. But the horrible was the mistakes in the examples that autor quotes. The most terrible was in the page 176. The author say that Goering was the minister of the nazi propaganda. He was not, Goebbels was.
At first I thought that all mistakes were about the spanish translation, but the same mistakes are in the english version of this so basic and bad book.

My final recommendation: Don't buy it, Do not waste your precious money.

Booher presents an amazing wealth of applicable
grammar wisdom for plus-ing your success as
a business communicator. A value addition to your
'library' for consistant personal/corporate use.
Naomi Rhode, CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame

My favorite comment in this book is "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth should not be three separate things." I love that! Booher packs this easy to read book with many other great ideas that have made me a better communicator.

It's hard to imagine a better communicator than Booher. Her work has established her as one of the primary authors in the field of communication -- and this book takes it to an even higher level. And, it's hard to imagine why any leader would not have this book on her or his shelf.

It is difficult to find the organization where communication is extraordinary. "The Voice of Authority" will assist any business -- of any size -- improve the way people relate internally and externally.

I was looking for a book to change my voice but instead I found out that it was a book about comunicating in work. It is an easy to read book, and I liked it, but it did not have great affect on my voice.