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Listening is just as important as speaking. Good listening draws people to you. Poor listening causes them to drift away. This program offers a powerful set of tools to help you build your listening skills up to maximum effectiveness. Jumpstart your way to better listening today!

If customer-driven service isn't already one of your organization's goals, it should be. In this program, Tony Alessandra, an expert on building business relationships, outlines some sure-fire strategies for consistently "wowing" your customers. You'll learn how to identify and exceed their expectations, build long-term relationships, and create what Alessandra calls "moments of magic."

In this audiobook, Dr Tony Alessandra covers the 5 negative flexibility traits. Flexibility is your willingness to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

In this idea-packed new audio program from Gildan Media, Communication Expert Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of the best sellers Relationship Strategies and The Ten Qualities of Charismatic People, will teach you the Ten Qualities of The World's Greatest Communicators. Tony has observed that the majority of the great leaders in the worlds of both politics and business are also great communicators.

This 2-part program will give you a guide to developing a more thorough understanding of nonverbal communication techniques. By increasing your awareness of nonverbal behavior, you can read the emotions and attitudes of fellow employees, supervisors, customers, and others you interact with inside and outside your organization. As a result, you will have a greater feeling for and awareness of all your interpersonal transactions.

Pete Johnson covers how to follow the correct process to successfully complete a strategic plan for your business. He covers the four phases of doing a strategic plan - focus, analysis, proposed plan overview and implementation. Pete also clarifies the difference between a company's vision and mission.

Stop being a passive listener and start being an active listener, using a dynamic program called CARESS. These 6 steps to effective listening were created by acclaimed lecturer and author Tony Alessandra. Alessandra is a marketing strategist, an applied behavioral scientist, and an expert in building business relationships guaranteed to last a lifetime.

If you believe in fundamentals, like how to confirm a sale versus closing a sale, learning what to do when you get a "yes", and how to lose a sale, but maintain the relationship, you will want to add this classic sales program to your library.

What is the cost of losing a customer? In today's competitive environment, it is a cost no business can afford. It costs you up to 4 times more to get a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. However, That does not even take into account the fact that an unhappy customer will tell an average of 20 customers about their bad experiences, while a satisfied customer will only tell 10 people about their good experiences. This means you have to make twice as many customers happy as unhappy ...

Dr. Tony Alessandra interviews Chuck Reaves on Price Objections. What would it be worth to you to never hear the price objection again? Chuck says that the person most guilty of bringing up the price objection is the salesperson because the salesperson feels that price is the obstacle to making the sale. To get around price objections, find out what the customer really needs - what are the customer’s buying criteria? Chuck tells us to discover what is the customer really trying to accomplish and what are their trade-offs.

Joe explains that successful failures do what others want them to do rather than what they really want to do, because of their high need for social acceptance. He covers career builders versus career busters. Joe also says that to move to the top 3%, we must study the masters and use them as role models.

This program by Dr. Tony Alessandra covers how to have conflict-free relationships in your working environment and in your personal life.

Dr. Tony Alessandra interviews Noah St. John on permission to succeed.

In this interview, Tony and Mark discuss the very important topic of leadership. Mark describes the difference between "management" and "leadership" and the difference between "organizational leadership" and "personal leadership". Mark discusses his six key tips to becoming a better leader, both professionally and personally.

Dr. Tony Alessandra covers the 5 negative versatility traits of subjectiveness, bluntness, resistance, single-mindedness, and taking unreasonable risks. Versatility is your ability to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

Turn your customers into business apostles who "preach the gospel" according to your company. Dr. Alessandra focuses on how everyone in your organization can become more customer-driven and less operations-driven; how to turn moments of misery into moments of magic for your customers; and how to create customer intimacy, customer retention, and customer satisfaction, which leads to customer loyalty.

This program covers the five positive versatility traits of being resilient, having vision, being attentive, being competent, and knowing how to self-correct. Versatility is your ability to engage in a range of behaviors, not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving, in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

Dr. Tony Alessandra interviews Phil Wexler on the quest for excellence. Phil Wexler discusses prescriptions for achieving customer service excellence. He differentiates between being an operations-driven company versus a customer-driven company. Phil also proposes creating demanding and complaining customers and the benefits of doing so. You need to set high expectations for your customers so that when they shop your competition, the competition pales by comparison to your company.

Dr. Tony Alessandra interviews Lillie Brock on Change Management. Do you manage the changes in your life or do they manage you? What is the secret to getting through life's difficult changes? Lillie covers these questions. She also discusses how and why it's important to create a positive mental outcome of how you would like to see change happen so that it becomes easier to achieve that outcome.

Dr. Tony Alessandra interviews Jeff Blackman on peak performance. Jeff compares individuals to a share of stock and its P/E ratio. For individuals, the "P" is their productivity, persistence, pride, and profitability. The "E" for individuals is their energy, effort, excitement and execution.