Infectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within

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Master performance coach Achim Nowak teaches readers how to create profound interpersonal connections for explosive business success!
Technology has transformed the way we communicate. We send and receive more and more emails every day. We text. We tweet. We have reduced our communications down to efficient sound bitesand at the same time, many of us seem to know less and less about how to connect. Deeply, profoundly connect.
In Infectious, acclaimed performance coach Achim Nowak introduces the reader to his powerful four Levels of Connection. Tested and honed through fifteen years of coaching senior-level executives around the globe, Nowaks techniques instantly transform the skills taught in traditional business communication and NLP programs. People who connect deeply with others connect on four levels: They shape conversations with effortless grace, and they play consciously with the unspoken elements of a connectionpersonal power, intention, and energy. The result Infectious connections that accelerate personal success!
Infectious offers simple language cues that deepen and shift the art of conversation. It breaks the idea of power into five tangible plugs that we can turn toand turn on. These plugs recharge the quality of our connection with anyone we meet. It shows how we can clarify our intentions, and how this clarification immediately fosters a more potent connection. Finally, this book demystifies the experience of energythe deepest of the four levels, and the root of any connection. It looks at how we access our energy. Remove energy blocks. Play with energy and own it.
This highly practical book reshapes the hidden forces of a connection into simple, step-by-step actions. Apply the tools of Infectious and generate your own infectious connections!
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

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A plethora of stories from his clients make the lessons simple to grasp, and his emphasis on communicating genuinely, rather than faking comfort with others, is highly appealing. Nowak s tone is upbeat and encouraging; his appeal to rejoice! in the ability to work together with others will be a welcome exhortation for readers looking to make their business or social encounters more real and more productive. --Publishers Weekly
Nowak talks convincingly about how successful entrepreneurs connect deeply with others at the highest of four levels, with less effort and more results. We are all human, and we need good relationships to be healthy and happy. Maybe it s time to take a hard look at your people connections, and use these tips to kick your results up a notch. --Forbes.com

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Achim Nowak is a performance coach and author who has inspired Fortune 500 executives around the globe. Influens, the international training and coaching firm he founded in Miami, has guided thousands of leaders from organizations such as Dover Corporation, Genzyme, and HSBC Bank to better connect and be more influential. His first book, Power Speaking (Allworth Press), remains an indispensable reference tool for professionals at every organizational level. Nowak's work has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, NPR, and in the Miami Herald.