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Name: An overview of interpersonal communication skills
ID: m14484
Language: English (en)
Summary: The Seven Challenges approach is a structured and sytematic way of learning the communication skills a person needs for success at home and at work. Topics covered include listening more responsively, negotiating the theme of a conversation, expressing one's thoughts and feelings more clearly, translating complaints into requests, asking questions more creatively, expressing more appreciation, and adopting the "continuous learning" attitude.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: communication, interpersonal, overview, skills
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Dennis Rivers (dennisrivers@newconversations.net)
Copyright Holders: Dennis Rivers (dennisrivers@newconversations.net)
Maintainers: Dennis Rivers (dennisrivers@newconversations.net)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: May 2, 2007 2:44 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: May 2, 2007 3:39 am GMT-5
Module XML: m14484_1.2.cnxml

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Version: 1.2 May 2, 2007 3:39 am GMT-5 by Dennis Rivers
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Version: 1.1 May 2, 2007 3:07 am GMT-5 by Dennis Rivers
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