Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work is a new book by communications expert Michael Dodd that helps people at all levels of the workforce answer questions in an age of increasing accountability- whether they're dealing with the media, their boss or preparing for an interview or parliamentary committee.
Great Answers To Tough Questions At Work (9780857086396) is a new book for people at all levels of the workforce to help them cope with ever-tougher questioning in an age of increasing accountability.
The book provides the golden formulae to deal with challenging questions amidst greater personal and organisational exposure via social media, always-on cameras, free-flowing access to information on the internet and instant round-the-world communication.
Helping people navigate these challenges is former broadcast interviewer and foreign correspondent Michael Dodd. He offers advice for anyone who wants to improve their communication and answer questions more effectively, whether they’re dealing with media, colleagues, clients, shareholders, financiers, or a potential employer.
Drawing on his experience putting business leaders and politicians under pressure, Dodd outlines strategies to combat even the hottest ‘blowtorch-on-the belly’ questions, whilst helping readers enhance their effectiveness, confidence and image.
“Of course no one wants to resemble a question-evading politician when taking part in an important conversation in the workplace,” writes Dodd. “This book will help readers formulate more impressive, reassuring and inspiring answers that are based on exact truths and backed up with persuasive examples.”
Emphasising the power of planning, preparation and practice, the book explains that the art and science behind giving great answers is a learnable skill.
Great Answers to Tough Questions is split into two main parts:
- Part One: The Tools You Need- From harnessing the power of stories, positioning your body in the right way, striking the correct tone of voice, and preparing for different personality types, this section looks at tactics, techniques and strategies to tackle tough questions.
- Part Two: Using Your New Tools- This section helps readers apply lessons from Part One to challenges that commonly arise in the workplace, including price negotiations, nerve-wracking job interviews and public grillings.
Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work also includes case study examinations of people in the public spotlight who have done particularly well or particularly badly while answering questions and draws out the lessons for readers.
Michael is available for interview, comment or by-lined articles on topics relating to communication at work, including:
- From Alan Sugar to Donald Trump and David Brent: managing tough talks with your boss
- How to answer questions at a time when social media is driving an age of increased accountability
- Studying weather forecasters: how to physically project the best version of you
- Avoiding the Aussie upward inflection in your answers: why tone of voice may be holding you back
- As job-hopping becomes the new normal: how to effectively answer career interview questions
- Handling tricky questions from existing clients or new prospects
- The golden formulae for answering tough questions from anywhere
- What to say when something goes seriously wrong and questioners are deeply upset
- Shining out at public grillings like parliamentary committee hearings and public inquiries
- Great answers during and after presentations, at events and in meetings
- Conveying answers to best suit different personality types
About the author:
Michael Dodd is an international speaker who empowers audiences to become inspirational communicators.
As a one-time broadcast journalist in the rough world of Australian politics, he asks volunteer audience members Aussie-style “blowtorch-on the-belly” questions on the big stage. He then equips audiences to give the best possible answers to nightmare questions from clients, prospects, reporters, shareholders and career-critical interview panels.
Michael was a political correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney and Canberra before becoming a foreign correspondent in London and Berlin. He covered Eastern Europe before, during and after the anti-communist revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall.
He became best known amongst international audiences for his newspaper reviews on Sky News and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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