The Elevated Communicator: How to Master Your Style and Strengthen Well-Being at Work

· Simon and Schuster
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Discover your communication style and elevate consciousness at work to build trust, strengthen collaboration, relieve stress, and improve well-being.

Our work lives revolve around effective communication. It is essential for cultivating trust and team collaboration, as well as strengthening our motivation and well-being at work. And with teams experiencing more anxiety, stress, and burnout than ever before, strong communication skills have never been more essential.

The key to this clear and effective communication begins with understanding our own personal communication styles. Bringing our whole and authentic selves to work improves relationships and teamwork. The better we know what drives us, how we impact others, and how our wellbeing impacts our communication, the faster we can close communication gaps to build healthy, successful, and satisfying work lives and more intentional careers.

Drawing on more than a decade of original research on communication tendencies and proven mindfulness and habit-formation techniques, Maryanne O’Brien has developed a proprietary model of communication styles: Expressive, Reserved, Direct, or Harmonious.

In The Elevated Communicator, you will find:
-A self-assessment to discover your style
-An in-depth style profile to strengthen self-awareness and help you play to your strengths
-Strategies to manage your communication style under stress
-Practices to improve your wellbeing and reduce conflict
-Ways to care for your communication style and improve your wellbeing
-Methods to flex toward other styles to communicate more effectively with people
-Advice on building healthy, trusted, and productive working relationships

Perfect for fans of StrengthsFinders 2.0 and Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies, The Elevated Communicator is a “refreshing, insightful, and user-friendly” (Tara Peyerl, executive coach and success director, Salesforce) approach to develop daily practices to spiral up, raise consciousness, inspire accountability, and discover your full potential at work.

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4.0
2 reviews
Dave Moen
May 4, 2021
I really enjoyed this book. It is intuitive that our well-being influences how we show up each day. This book provides tangible tools and stories that give insight in how to be a more skilled communicator and enhance the connection to our personal well-being. The survey to assess communication styles was relevant and accurate. The behaviors described in each style and how they change with the winds of our well-being aligns with my experience with myself and others. Communication is recognized as an important life skill and this book provides a framework to help self and team members improve it.
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About the author

Maryanne O’Brien has spent decades guiding people and cultures to foster open communication, cultivate empathy, and deepen trust. She’s worked with big brands like Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, Apple, and small, independent businesses. Her advertising, consulting, and corporate coaching background taught her to value authentic leadership and healthy cultures and inspired her to found Conscious Company. She lives with her husband on a hobby farm just outside Minneapolis, where she leads retreats. Visit her online at Conscious-Company.com.

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