• 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work - Anywhere!

  • A How-To Guide for Practicing the Empathic Listening, Speaking, and Dialogue Skills to Achieve Relationship Success
  • By: Bento C. Leal III
  • Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
  • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (247 ratings)

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4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work - Anywhere!

By: Bento C. Leal III
Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
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+ 2019 Readers Choice Awards, First Place Winner, Advice category + 2019 International Book Awards, Award-Winning Finalist in the Parenting and Family category

What if a few simple skills could radically improve your life, marriage, and ALL your relationships?

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work--Anywhere! is an excellent 'How-To Guide' teaching some of the key skills that will help you identify and overcome communication barriers and achieve relationship success with the important people in your life--your spouse or partner, child or children, parents, siblings, friends, co-workers, customers--everyone!

Plus, there are Self-Review Questions and Action Items at the end of several of the chapters.

These skills will help you to:

  • Listen with greater empathy and understanding to what the other person is saying and feeling
  • Avoid listening blocks to effective communication
  • Engage in empathic dialogue to achieve mutual understanding
  • Manage conflicts and disagreements calmly and successfully
  • Nurture your relationships on a consistent basis
  • Experience the power of expressing gratitude and appreciation
  • And more...

Good Communication is the Foundation for Healthy Relationships
Research suggests that healthy relationships produce a wide range of health benefits, including mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical, and good communication is at the core of healthy relationships.

You will also get the 12-Day Communication Challenge! This Action Guide at the end of the book will help you practice a particular skill step each day thus growing in confidence and ability as you do.

Start growing your skills to strengthen your marriage, family, and all your relationships!

©2017 Bento C. Leal III (P)2017 Bento C. Leal III

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Author self-glorifies, then the book ends

I kept waiting for the book to really start and then it was over... The author talked about how great he was and that was it...

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Maybe the Kindle version is better.

The narration is horrible. I drive a lot for work and I listen to a lot of audible books and this voice was so annoying. the reader reads like he's talking to a child or a bad infomercial
The first 5 minutes of the book is just the author praising himself and his book. Very frustrating I'm getting a refund.

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Weak

It’s a nice concept and a nice skill to have, but this book gives me the feeling that it’s just a guy that one day thought “you know, I’m pretty decent at my job so I’m qualified to write a book... and people will buy it because they’re really searching for help in this area.” The book just doesn’t seem to make any earth shattering revelations or give real concrete advice. It’s all pretty predictable and logical, which is fine on its own merit, but that’s not why people buy a book like this.

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Communication for real neophytes read by an robot

I'm sorry to say that this book was a real disappointment. It has some good but VERY basic advice regarding listening to others. Think of it as How to Win Friends and Influence People but without the folksy anecdotes and simplified to almost a level that you would need to explain the concepts to a six-year-old. Or perhaps just someone who has a six-year-old level of communication skills? I've read a few books about communications and they at least all have some nugget of value that the other books don't. A unique perspective or particular tip that I can add to my toolchest. But this one is so basic that it really doesn't offer anything unless you literally have never read anything about communication before and have a very low level of communication skills. I guess for those people it might be an ok primer, except that is for the narration.

The narration was one of the words I've ever listened to. I am usually not that picky, but the guy reading the book had less human touches than Siri, Alexa, or Google Home! I swear this guy sounded like an automated computer voice in terms of the way he intoned sentences. It helped slightly to speed up to 1.25x, since his normal speech is incredibly slow, but even at 1.25x, I found it very hard to pay any attention because it felt like he was reading something without actually paying much attention to the words, reading it all with a single tone of voice, with an occasional rise or fall, but it seemed he was putting much more attention on anunciating e-ver-y syll-a-ble ex-act-ly to the point that it became mind-numbing.

If you feel like you need a very basic primer of communications, either get another book or at least don't get this on audio, because it's next to excruciating to listen to!

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Effective

This was a very simple read. It is complex in the way that it makes you realize what needs to be fixed in terms of your own communication. It helped me open my eyes to what I needed to focus on to produce real results. I recommend this book. The end of the book provides you with a 12-day challenge. I highly advise that you complete it to put your new knowledge to use to help retain it.

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Not helpful to me

There are no new informations to help with my growth.
This book is not for me for what I was expecting it to be.

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I enjoyed and following his steps

I enjoyed the book and planning to follow his 12 steps. also, planning to purchase the hard copy of the book.

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amazing techniques.

quick and to the point but at the same time insightful listening to it while I am working.

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I enjoyed it

This book was enjoyable and easy to understand. And listen too. Easy and direct! Valuable techniques.

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Great Positive Book to Encourage Good Communication

😊🙏. Great Book and Must Read
This book may change your life. He teaches you how to confront in a healthy way

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