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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: For strong communication, use your ignorance to help others feel at ease.
Chapter 3: Effective communication is both empathetic and rational.
Chapter 4: To communicate effectively, adapt to your audience and ensure your message stays clear and engaging.
Chapter 5: Improv techniques can assist in improving your skills for reading nonverbal communication.
Chapter 6: The final two facets of great communication require heightened audience awareness.
Description
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? (2017) explains how improvisation techniques, as practiced by actors and comedians, can be used as training methods for better communication. Alda uses illuminating examples of miscommunications from his own life to show how we all can be better at relating and talking to one another.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone whose job involves communicating complex ideas to various and varied audiences
- Leaders who want to improve their interpersonal skills and learn about empathy
- Non-actors who want to learn how the craft really works