21 Days of Effective Communication: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Improve Your Communication Skills and Social Intelligence: Volume 17 (Effective ... Social Skills & Build Strong Relationships) Paperback – 2 July 2018

Exellent Thank you.

It is a nice book, certainly for its size it does deliver quite nice improvement techniques and exercises. The start of the book is quite nice but as it goes on, some topics may not be relevant for everyone - such as the mediation part towards the end.

There is a link to a free supplementary book of using Kindle. This link does not work but if you contact Ian he will sort this out.Easy steps to follow but the steps will require hard work and repetitions to become competent with each step.Begins with learning to listen. Quite a few people think communication is about talking but the real skill is listening. I used to constantly interrupt people. It annoyed people. I thought I was being helpful and empathetic. How wrong I was. Working through the exercises has helped a lot.Each step can be returned to when you realise your weaknesses.Do not be fooled into thinking you know everything that is in the book. You may know it but do you put it into practice?A superb book that is very practical, easy to read and also useful when writing books as it is full of ideas for how and why relationships fail.Would recommend it as a gift to yourself or family members or anyone who deals with the public.

Clear and transparent layout, easy to read, however content is average and of decreasing quality in the second half. Each chapter has a put into practice section which makes it easier to do the exercises and to find them later on.Gets a bit boring in the second half. I believe there are 3 or maybe even 4 newly released books on the topic of communication from this author and I'm under the impression that quantity took over quality. I think that combining them would give the reader one ultimate guide to effective communication.There's some information and advice given that I do not find useful but quite opposite. In chapter 15 author advises to not be afraid to use exclamation marks, but personally I found too many sentences ending with "!" in Ian's latest books. It makes me feel as if I'm being shouted at all the time. Exclamation mark does not necessary convey happiness but it does convey exclamation and is mainly used to indicate louder tone or shouting to the reader. Moreover, it should not be used in formal communication.There's also advice to change the sayings/phrases as author calls them "cliches", by replacing words as apparently it would make an impact. I think by doing that, we indicate that we don't know the saying, not a good look! From linguistic point of view, it's a mistake.

Many books of this type spend the first two thirds telling you how useful the techniques will be but '21 days' dives in and gives you effective techniques from the start. If you want a book that gives you a door to communicating effectively, this is it.

Good Read and exercises. It’s a good book to go through over 21 days. The tips and exercises are helpful and practical

In this book, I have found many great tips to sharpen the communication skill. The author wrote the book in a simple structure and the ideas are well presented

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