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Talk Is Easy: How To Make Every Conversation Payoff   By Godfrey Harris

Talk Is Easy by Godfrey Harris

ISBN:
Cassette: 0-935047-27-1
CD: 7-16629-00029
Book: 0-935047-30-1
Two cassettes or CDs approximately 60 minutes each for a total length of 2 hours; 96 pages for printed book.

PRICES:
Cassette: $17.95
CD: $21.95
Book: $12.95

handpointer.gif (1652 bytes)This book is especially useful to small business owners and marketing specialists.

To a lot of people, making conversation with a stranger is about as scary as meeting their potential in-laws for the first time. How do you get beyond the how-do-you-do stage? How do you know what to say to someone you've never met before? How do you change the subject when a conversation gets boring?

All good questions. The new audio book by Godfrey Harris shows listeners how to deal with each of them and a lot more in both business and social settings. It gives listeners simple-to-remember techniques to help them make their conversation as fluid as a river flowing toward the ocean. By the time a small business owner, corporate salesperson, network marketer, or anyone else finished these tapes, they should be able to have a conversation with a member of the Royal Family or a member of the Royal Mounted Police--whether they are alone with them in a room or standing in a crowd at an airport, whether the subject is financial matters or family matters.

These tapes will get listeners so comfortable making conversation that it won't matter a whit if they have to...

  • create chit chat at a cocktail party with strangers;
  • engage in small talk with the boss's wife at a dinner party;
  • conduct a serious discussion about a child's behavior in school;
  • react to a director's point in a board room;
  • discuss the meaning of a purchase agreement with a buyer;

          or

  • talk to a teenage kid about sex.

We are absolutely certain that if those who listen to Talk Is Easy can change their age once a year or change lanes on a highway, they can learn how to make conversation with anyone at any time in any situation from these inter-active tapes.

Godfrey Harris wrote the original script for this audiobook. He has been a public policy consultant based in Los Angeles, California, since 1968. He began consulting after brief careers as a university lecturer, U.S. Army intelligence officer, foreign service officer with the Department of State, and organizational specialist in the President's Executive Office. As President of Harris/Reagan Management Group, he has focused the firm's activities on alternative solutions to matters of community concern. in fulfilling that role, he has specialized in political and economic analysis; marketing public and private sector products through word of mouth advertising; developing new environmental products; creating commemorative events; and promoting international tourism. This is the 23rd book he has written or co-authored. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Tom Clarke-Hill, an American actor living in England, is a professional narrator, having performed in numerous recordings, on radio and television, and for the past four years in such films as Disney's Emmy-nominated Amazing Animals.

"The reader's cheerful and confident style seemed to enhance the author's...suggestions for success in any conversational setting." - Elizabeth Tomblin, Attorney's Assistant

"The English [of Talk Is Easy] is wonderfully fluent [and understandable]. - Semjen Wainstein, Oberhausen, Germany

"...actually [this audiobook] is quite good. I like the interactive practice sessions." - Hugh Penton, Sr., Penton Overseas

THE BOOK READER Fall/Winter 1999-2000:
"Here are two hours of great tips, ideal for small business owners, network marketers, anyone in sales. Everyone who can benefit from effective word-of-mouth comments. This [book]...shows how to start, maintain, and stop conversations with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations."

THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW October 1999:
"In Talk Is Easy!, [Harris] quite literally shows the reader how to make every conversation perform a persuasive and successful communication function no matter what the circumstance or situation. [It] is highly recommended for anyone needing to improve their ability to converse privately or publicly, personally or professionally."

TAPE HIGHLIGHTS

SIDE

SEGMENT @ TIME

ONE

The three Ps--Planning, Practice and Patience
Peter Arrives for Mary's Party
The Essence of PICL is Presented
Developing a Conversational Objective
Peter and Sarah Talk
Always Be Open to Learning Something
Conversation Starters
Practicing Conversation Starters
Practicing a Visa Interview
00:00
02:40
04:35
08:20
12:15
17:30
18:55
21:25
23:35

TWO

Role Playing in Conversational Spontaneity
Word of Mouth Advertising and Conversation
Conversation Develops Just Like a Tree
Comfortable Conversation Topics
The Importance of Body Language
Analysing All Completed Conversations
Getting Someone Else to Agree With You
Closing Thought on the Present
31:55
36:50
41:30
47:00
48:00
54:20
57:20
59:30

THREE

Review
The Significance of Conversation
Role Playing Disagreement
Different Forms of Conversation
Difficult Conversational Situations
Conversation in Perspective
Listening is Done With the Eyes
60:15
63:30
66:15
74:10
78:40
81:40
86:10

FOUR

Role Playing Conversational Skills--II
Handling Awkward Conversations
More Conventional Gap Fillers
Conversation Busters to Avoid
How to End a Conversation
Multi-Person Conversations
Ethnic Conversations
Openness in Conversation
Conversations in the Face of Distractions
A Brief Review
Jumping Into Someone Else's Conversation
Closing Thoughts
90:15
94:00
96:00
98:45
102:30
103:30
106:30
109:25
110:25
112:25
116:00
118:30

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