Connect & Succeed: A Communication Style to Engage and Motivate Your Employees - Paperback

by David W. Bennett (Author)

Connect & Succeed: A Communication Style to Engage and Motivate Your Employees is a new approach to management communication. The book details an innovative new style that focuses on the other person and the relationship between conversational partners. Connect & Succeed provides managers with specific actions to follow in improving their communication. The three core actions are: 1) energetic listening, 2) targeted speaking, and 3) creating a common ground connection. The actions provide managers with a straightforward way to improve and enhance their current communication style. The book provides easy-to-follow guidelines in using these actions to help managers be the best communicators they can be. The emphasis in the book is on application with 36 exercises to help managers apply the new skills to their current work environment. There are also instructions for creating a Connect & Succeed Operating Manual to help managers implement this new set of skills for optimum success and productivity.

Author Biography

Dr. David Bennett is an experienced trainer, coach and facilitator with over 25 years of diverse experience in training, organization development and talent management. David is the principal and founder of Common Ground Communication. The communication approach he describes in his new book is called a Connect & Succeed Communication Style. He has worked in multiple companies implementing this Connect & Succeed Communication Style with overwhelmingly positive results. Dr. Bennett has worked in multiple industries including aerospace, healthcare, insurance and the public sector, and for the University of Indianapolis, California State University, San Bernardino as a professor and adjunct faculty member.