Sharpen Your Verbal Edge : 101 Tips to Enhance Your Professional Communication Skills

What's holding you back from confidently and positively communicating, writing that book you have inside you; presenting that trajectory-changing keynote address; hosting that TV show or podcast that informs and inspires hundreds; or crafting those emails that are thoroughly read, remembered, quoted, and acted upon?

Could it be you fear you're missing some essential key skills and you're not quite sure what they are?

In her book, Sharpen Your Verbal Edge: 101 Tips to Enhance Your Professional Communication Skills, Communication Skills Advisor Elizabeth MacDonald has chosen key tips culled from her own experience and what she's witnessed and taught in the business world.

Elizabeth has put together her top 101 tips to help you:

• Write and speak correctly, positively, confidently, and clearly
• Give great first and last impressions
• Deliver effective presentations and elevator pitches
• Effectively compliment
• Prepare of broadcast-worthy video conferencing
• Format and write professional emails that are acted upon
• Actively listen
• Change negatives to positives
• Respectfully and tactfully confront

This book is for busy professionals who want to polish their communication skills. Each tip comes in bite-sized, easy-to-read language that you'll end up quoting for years to come.

Learn how to communicate optimally and effectively and witness it transform you, your career, and your life.

Elizabeth (Liza) MacDonald is a corporate communication advisor, consultant, and owner of The Verbal Edge. Located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Tampa Bay area, The Verbal Edge equips individuals and groups to speak, write, and interact, and present themselves positively and with confidence. Through workshops and individual consultations, Elizabeth partners with her clients to achieve desired skills and to detect and eliminate communication challenges. Elizabeth's professional background includes - TV reporting, anchoring, talk-show hosting, and producing - Marketing and communications for Fort Wayne, Indiana Community Schools - Teaching high school English. - Assistant Manager of Flight Attendants, San Francisco She graduated from Indiana University at Fort Wayne with a B.S. in Education--focusing on sociology, history and English. Elizabeth completed her master's degree coursework and graduate orals in Broadcast Communication at San Francisco State University. Elizabeth enjoys clever humor, fascinating conversations, meals or mocha lattes with friends, reading, teaching, learning, emceeing at Bible study, keynote speaking, and listening to podcasts while exercising. She and her husband Greg have two grown daughters and a German Shepherd named Dinah.