How to Say it for Women

Front Cover
Phyllis Mindell
Penguin, 2001 - 298 pages
0 Reviews
Perhaps the best teacher of how the power of language can transform is an unexpected one: Charlotte the spider of E.B. White's, Charlotte's Web. Mindell demonstrates how Charlotte communicated messages that gained national attention and saved a friend's life. As a model, she combines female strengths of wisdom and compassion with the determination and power to make a difference.

As part of Prentice Hall Press's highly successful How to Say It "TM" series, How to Say It "TM" for Women is packed with practical tips, techniques, and examples that arm women to grapple with every communication issue, from choosing the right word or sentence to speaking, reading, writing, leading, dressing, and interviewing effectively. Readers will learn how to: shun words that weaken messages and make women invisible; sail through interviews; assess and develop leadership skills; say NO, kindly but firmly; respond appropriately to slurs, insults, and harassment; say the one winning word that gets people to follow directions.

True stories about women in every field, along with quotes from Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Carla Hills, Amelia Earhart, Elizabeth Dole and others, enable women to tap the power of words to persuade, motivate, establish authority, and make a difference -- without sacrificing their integrity, their compassion, or their femininity.

 

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Selected pages

Contents

Follow the Leaders to the Language of Success Leave the Sad Stories Behind
1
Throw Off Your Shackles Break Free of the Grammar of Weakness
19
Assert Yourself Use the Grammar of Power
47
Words That Work Choose Them Wisely
67
Get Organized A Recipe for Confident Communication
87
Stand Up and Speak Like a Woman Perfect Your Presentations
109
The Body Language of Power Lead Without Words
143
Success Has Its Style Play Your Role with Panache
167
But I Thought You Said Precise Listening Prevents Problems
213
Running the World Onward and Upward
231
The Executive Suite How to Lead with the Language of Success
245
Issues and Answers Putting It All Together in a Complex World
261
Our Heroes Ourselves Empower Yourself and Others
275
Bookshelf
287
About the Author
289
About WellRead
290

Writing the Language of Success Use the Mighty Pen
179
Why Cant a Woman Read More Like a Man? Empowerment Through Reading
195
Index
291
Copyright

Other editions - View all

How To Say It for Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the ...
Phyllis Mindell
Limited preview - 2001

Common terms and phrases

Action Plan action verbs Amelia Earhart audience body language business casual Charlotte Charlotte's Charlotte's Web choose communications confidence credibility Crib Sheet deep reading e-mail E. B. White example executive eye contact feel filter follow gestures give grammar of power grammar of weakness guage Here's hypercorrect ideas interview issues language of power language of success language of weakness lead leader leadership Linda look manager meeting memo mentor metaphors models numbers organization system Orit Gadiesh passive voice person piece power reading powerful language precision listening prereading presentation problem professional Puny Hedge questions Quick Tips read Chapters responses Ron Mix Ruth Bader Ginsburg script sentences skills smile speak speaker Step sticky notes story strong structures style suggest talk techniques tell Thanks thesis statement topic understand videotape weak language Wilbur woman women words writing

References to this book

About the author (2001)

Phyllis Mindell, Ed.D., founded and leads Well-Read, an international communications consulting firm. Dr. Mindell, is the author of the best-selling A Woman's Guide to the Language of Success, Communicating With Confidence and Power (Prentice Hall Press), and has helped thousands of women at every corporate level transform their language and their lives through her Woman Language, Woman Power and Well-Read Woman seminars.

Bibliographic information

QR code for How to Say it for Women
TitleHow to Say it for Women
EditorPhyllis Mindell
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherPenguin, 2001
ISBN0735202222, 9780735202221
Length298 pages
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan