Finding Your Voice: Reclaiming Personal Power Through Communication
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Finding Your Voice is an enlightening practical guide to personal development and communication: it is also much more. This is a book which offers a political and philosophical vision that explores the relationship between an unjust society, an increasing sense of powerlessness and our common communication patterns.
It takes the reader through the key interpersonal tools essential for assertion: active listening, counselling, teamwork, leadership and management, conflict resolution and problem-solving.
More importantly, it combines these practical techniques with a vision, placing them within the context of our social and political conditioning and presenting us with ideas and techniques that are at the cutting edge of workplace reform. It moves away from the oppressive tactics of 'power-over' toward the techniques of 'power-with' and the co-operative solving of problems. It offers a way to liberate our thinking on organisational and societal norms and provides us with the tools we need to survive and thrive in both the workplace and our personal relationships.
Author: Jane Downing
Format: Paperback, 216 pages, 130mm x 195mm
Published: 1995, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Self Improvement: General
Finding Your Voice is an enlightening practical guide to personal development and communication: it is also much more. This is a book which offers a political and philosophical vision that explores the relationship between an unjust society, an increasing sense of powerlessness and our common communication patterns.
It takes the reader through the key interpersonal tools essential for assertion: active listening, counselling, teamwork, leadership and management, conflict resolution and problem-solving.
More importantly, it combines these practical techniques with a vision, placing them within the context of our social and political conditioning and presenting us with ideas and techniques that are at the cutting edge of workplace reform. It moves away from the oppressive tactics of 'power-over' toward the techniques of 'power-with' and the co-operative solving of problems. It offers a way to liberate our thinking on organisational and societal norms and provides us with the tools we need to survive and thrive in both the workplace and our personal relationships.