How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill Title: How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

Best book ever

I read this book once and I continually review and am rereading it with a highlighter. I am in the military and trying to meet people and get ahead and these methods have significantly improved my communication skills for schmoozing.
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

Much needed

This book should be used in schools and businesses. Simple skills we all can grasp and make our own. I've used these tips over the holidays at parties and had successfully engaged many in conversation. Bravo!
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

Excellent book!!

Noticed more-or-less immediate results after following recommendations in this book. As a result, general quality of life has gradually improved.

Unlike some similar books that explain the best way to interact with people, this book delivers the same content with one important difference - The author explains WHY she thinks that's the best way in plain English, and cites real life examples. This helped me a lot.
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

How to appear superficial and phony

These "92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships" are tricks, all right, and they won't earn you big success, except with other phonies who are also trying to win your favor with similar tactics.

Some of the concepts are obvious, such as not slouching, actually paying attention to what someone is saying by maintaining reasonable eye contact, and not making jokes at your host's expense; but overall, the techniques described by Lowndes strike me as transparently cloying behavior. Furthermore, Lowndes' writing style is abominable -- it's not a narrative so much as a book of one-line pointers, making it virtually unreadable over the course of 345 pages.

This book is tailor-made for shallow individuals who don't read much, aren't really interested in others, and aren't really sophisticated but want to merely appear so. If you're truly interested in what someone has to say, and if you really are capable of leadership, then those qualities will come across in your body language, your vocabulary and your ability to forumulate coherent questions and persuasive arguments. Learning how to feign interest better than the next person and how to make a good impression will only make you look like a big phony.

To summarize: The impression one leaves when "trying to make a good impression" is that one has a desperate need to "make a good impression!" I teach others that the best way to leave a good impression (not make one) is by dressing nicely, maintaining one's personal hygiene, being honest, forthright, humble and kind, and by responding favorably toward others who do the same and tactfully toward those who don't. I prefer to make a real impression and be respected for the quality of my work, rather than to be seen as someone who really gives a hoot what others think of me. That's the way to earn lasting respect.

Now I just know that a future reviewer will ask, "Why did I buy the book if I wasn't interested in its premise?" The answer is, I bought it for someone who had heard it recommended, but who also ultimately found it equally shallow and annoying.
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

Indispensible

I love this book. I devoured it. It really gives some great insight into the human mind and how we communicate. The chapters are short, which I like. For the most part, the lessons learned are pretty straightforward. Once you're read through it once, you can go back and quickly find and remember what the gist of each lesson is. Memorize this book and you will be a bigger success in life.
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by McGraw-Hill

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"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -- Larry King

"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive”

What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"

What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.

The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find:

  • 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression
  • 14 ways to master small talk, "big talk," and body language
  • 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity
  • 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd
  • 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone
  • 9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!)
  • 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool
  • 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room
  • 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive

In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: "Rubberneck the Room," "Be a Copyclass," "Come Hither Hands," “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky," and "Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.

How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter)is based on solid research about techniques that work!

By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!