Overview
As a follow-up to his highly successful first book, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends, Don Gabor has written Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love, since many men and women have difficulty expressing themselves to people they already know well. Intimate conversations allow people to express their feelings and opinions honestly. By offering advice on combining coolness with compassion, logic with understanding, affection with discipline, and trust with candor, Don Gabor shows us how to converse assertively and openly with common sense, insight and love.Practical advice for intimate conversations with friends, lovers, spouses, parents, and kids is offered for topics such as: - Building better friendships - Fixing a fractured friendship - Turning a friend into a lover - Patching up a lovers' quarrel - Developing your child's confidence and self-esteem - Discovering your child's hidden feelings - Improving your family's conversationIn addition to numerous examples, the book features “Conversation Clinics” at the end of each chapter to tackle special situations. An indispensable guidebook for all those who want to communicate more effectively with those they care about, Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love can help you reach new, more profound levels of intimacy on a daily basis.Author Biography
Don Gabor is the author of the best selling and newly revised book and audio program, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends and ten other books and audio programs on business and interpersonal communication skills. His books have been translated into more than two dozen foreign editions including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French and German.Don has been writing books, offering communication programs and consulting since 1980. He has presented his programs to US-China Partners, Korin Japanese Trading Corp., General Reinsurance (GenRe), Professional Association of SQL Servers (PASS), Marriott Hotels, Standard & Poors, Time-Warner, Viacom, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business and many other large and small companies, associations and colleges.For individuals who want personalized training, Don also offers one-on-one coaching for speeches, presentations, conversation skills and media training.Don has been a member of the National Speakers Association since 1991. He was the 2010-2011 NSA-New York City chapter president. Don was a media spokesperson for Grand Marnier, Sprint and Frito-Lay.Don is a frequent media guest and his books have been featured in hundreds of online, print, radio and television interviews, including “60 Minutes With Andy Rooney,” Wall Street Journal’s TV “Lunch Hour,” New York Times, Newsday, Investor’s Business Daily, and many others.The New Yorker called Don, “a gifted conversationalist.”