Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work

Michael Dodd

ISBN 10: 0857086391 / ISBN 13: 9780857086396

Published by John Wiley & Sons Jul 2016, 2016

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Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunitiesDifficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you've made it to the top. If you find yourself on the firing line on a regular or occasional basis this is the perfect go-to guide to help you turn tough questions into positive opportunities.Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work promotes a confident 'win-win-win' mindset for questioner, answerer and wider audiences beyond. Author Michael Dodd provides golden formulae and proven strategies for constructing inspirational answers--however challenging, vicious, tricky or stupid the question. He outlines simple but successful techniques for dealing with the kind of nightmare questions which all ambitious people in the workplace have to face along their journey, whatever stage of their career.\* Contains critical communication skills for executives, managers, leaders and those aspiring to fill these roles\* Covers a wide range of work place scenarios such as job interviews, performance reviews, negotiations, customer relations, parliamentary inquiries and cross-examination\* Discusses how to see the issues underlying tough questions that you face in a different, more positive, solution-oriented way\* Includes case study examinations of key moments where people in the public spotlight have done something particularly well or particularly badly while answering questions and draws out the lessons for readers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Jul 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857086391
• ISBN 13: 9780857086396
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 139H x 20D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 139 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 394 grams

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Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunities

Difficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you’ve made it to the top. If you find yourself on the firing line on a regular or occasional basis this is the perfect go-to guide to help you turn tough questions into positive opportunities.

Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work promotes a confident 'win-win-win' mindset for questioner, answerer and wider audiences beyond. Author Michael Dodd provides golden formulae and proven strategies for constructing inspirational answers―however challenging, vicious, tricky or stupid the question. He outlines simple but successful techniques for dealing with the kind of nightmare questions which all ambitious people in the workplace have to face along their journey, whatever stage of their career.

• Contains critical communication skills for executives, managers, leaders and those aspiring to fill these roles
• Covers a wide range of work place scenarios such as job interviews, performance reviews, negotiations, customer relations, parliamentary inquiries and cross-examination
• Discusses how to see the issues underlying tough questions that you face in a different, more positive, solution-oriented way
• Includes case study examinations of key moments where people in the public spotlight have done something particularly well or particularly badly while answering questions and draws out the lessons for readers.

About the Author

Michael Dodd (Midlands, UK) is a speaker and international media and presentation trainer, working with businesses of all sizes. Michael speaks weekly (schedule attached in appendix below) and his targeted newsletter is distributed to 2000 people each month. His clients include representatives of UK Trade and Investment, in embassies, high commissions and consulates around the world. He speaks with audiences of United Nations officials on answering questions from the media in global trouble spots.
Michael also teaches as a Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster and does media training for university clients, professors and business students. He also delivers guest lectures in other universities around the world.
Trained as a broadcast journalist, Michael has worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the AM programme, and then as the foreign correspondent travelling the world covering politics and revolutions.