{"id":995,"date":"2015-04-18T10:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-04-18T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T14:04:30","slug":"books-i-read-and-recommend-for-improving-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/books-i-read-and-recommend-for-improving-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Read and Recommend for Improving Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to share information and recommend resources to my friends and clients, and love hearing about books and authors that have made a difference in their life too.\u00a0 Like many I have an <em><strong>Amazon <\/strong><\/em>page that lists the books I use in my coaching and training to help clients and teams improve their skills.\u00a0 The skills we may focus on include effective interpersonal skills, reading body language, small talk and rapport-building skills, leadership development skills, professional communication strategies, presentations, conflict management, ESL (<em>English as a second language<\/em>) improvement including grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, etc.\u00a0 There are even a couple martial arts books in there too!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to know what books I read and recommend, please check out:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ric's recommended communication skills training bookstore\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.ca\/3vcommu-20\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Ric&#8217;s Recommended Communication Skills Training Bookstore&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to share information and recommend resources to my friends and clients, and love hearing about books and authors that have made a difference in their life too.\u00a0 Like many I have an Amazon page that lists the books I use in my coaching and training to help clients and teams improve their skills.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[544,538,536,535,533,534,537],"tags":[760,678,762,761],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-language","category-confidence","category-customer-service","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-interpersonal-communications","category-professional-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-amazon","tag-ebooks","tag-recommended-books","tag-recommended-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}