Listening is a perfect primer for those looking to enhance their personal and business relationships and advance to the next level. The title speaks for itself - we are all capable of hearing what people are saying, but the art-form is in actually listening and understanding what they are saying. Listening is an acquired skill, but with practice it can be mastered. Listening will sharpen important skills such as asking the right questions, and looking for signs like eye contact and body language. Listening explains the value of waiting for the "silent period" at the end of the spoken word,...

Leading will take you into the thought processes of effective leaders. Many books, articles and essays on leadership seem fuzzy and ethereal because they only describe leadership successes, but fail to explain the "in the trenches" techniques used by successful leaders. Leading melds the leadership concepts discussed and used by many and converts them into day-to-day kinetic interfaces between leaders and subordinates. You will learn that leadership requires patience and mastery of the skill of listening, a topic thoroughly discussed in Jeffrey Hugh Newman's first book, Listening. One is a...

Launching takes all of the principles described in Jeffrey Hugh Newman's first two books, Listening and Leading and melds them into a compendium of skills to succeed as an effective leader, negotiator, marketer and businessperson. And, these skills are just as useful in the everyday world of family and friends. Professionals dedicate their school lives to learning a profession. They are taught the substantive knowledge necessary to be smart lawyers, doctors, accountants and businesspersons. Yet, there are scant few, if any, courses teaching the skills and techniques of marketing, leadership...