Overview
65% of students feel they are well-prepared in communication. Only 27% of employers agree. Surveys show that good communication ranks in every employer’s top-ten list of necessary skills – and not many applicants are delivering.Confident Communication: How to Speak and Write Your Way to Success uses a top-to-bottom approach that teaches readers how to create effective business communications for all platforms. Practical tips include identifying pertinent facts, speaking in an interview or in front of your boss, writing for online or social media, avoiding clichés, and more. Whether in a tweet, e-mail, report, meeting, or presentation, this communication handbook stresses the importance of clear, precise, inspiring communication. Confident Communication gives readers the skills, strategies, and techniques needed to achieve it.Author Biography
A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Jeff Rowe has made good communication skills an integral part of his career whether working as a reporter, editor, and news director or in the college-level writing courses he teaches. Jeff's forty years in journalism included working as a staff reporter for the Orange County Register, the Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal, where he learned how the business world works and the importance of good communication in that world. Jeff's previous books include Broadcast Writing for Professionals, and Reporting and Writing on Journalism's New Frontier.