Better Conversations : Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected / Jim Knight.

Author/creator Knight, Jim author.
Format Electronic
PublicationThousand Oaks : Corwin, 2015.
Description1 online resource (256 pages)
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1. Radical Brokenness and Better Conversations; Chapter 2. The Better Conversations Beliefs; Chapter 3. Listening With Empathy; Chapter 4. Fostering Dialogue; Chapter 5. Asking Better Questions; Chapter 6. Connecting; Chapter 7. Finding Common Ground; Chapter 8. Redirecting Toxic Words and Emotions; Chapter 9. Building Trust; References; Study Participants; Index;
Abstract This book focuses on the capacity for improving schools by improving communication. Asserting that schools are only as good as the conversations within them, it shows how to adopt the habits essential to transforming the quality of interpersonal dialogues. Topics include listening with empathy and finding common ground.
General notePreface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. Radical Brokenness and Better Conversations
Chapter 2. The Better Conversations Beliefs
Chapter 3. Listening With Empathy
Chapter 4. Fostering Dialogue
Chapter 5. Asking Better Questions
Chapter 6. Connecting
Chapter 7. Finding Common Ground
Chapter 8. Redirecting Toxic Words and Emotions
Chapter 9. Building Trust
References
Study Participants
Index
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.
Issued in other formOriginal 9781506307459 1506307450
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015949335
ISBN9781506336688 (electronic bk.)
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ISBN9781506336701 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1506336701 (electronic bk.)
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