Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion (Google eBook)

George Thompson

HarperCollins, Oct 12, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 224 pages

Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters through simple, easily remembered strategies that deflect and redirect negative behaviour.

Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.

What people are saying

Review: Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

User Review  - Bobbi Cuningham - Goodreads

I got some helpful tips in how to use empathy when dealing with difficult people.

Review: Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

User Review  - Bobbi - Goodreads

I got some helpful tips in how to use empathy when dealing with difficult people.

Contents

• A Decade Later: 9
• INTRODUCTION Communication as a Noncontact Sport: 11
• Birth of a Communication Samurai: 15
• Motivating the Disagreeable: 21
• Baptism of Fire: 25
• Taking Crap with Dignity and Style: 31
• The Nice the Difficult and the Wimp: 39
• Eleven Things Never to Say to Anyone And How to Respond If Some Idiot Says Them to You: 47
• The Crucible of the Street: 55
• The Most Powerful Word in the English Language: 63
• The Greatest Speech Youll Ever Live to Regret: 71
• The Only Way to Interrupt People and Still Have Them Love You: 79
• Verbal Judo Versus Verbal Karate: 87
• The FiveStep Hard Style: 95
• Representation: 103
• Translation: 111
• Mediation: 121
• What Makes This All So Difficult: 127
• ReadinRitin and Rhetoric: 135
• How to Diagnose a Verbal Encounter: 147
• The Language of Reassurance: 153
• How to Fight Fair: 161
• Take the Giant LEAPS: 167
• Applying LEAPS to Your World: 175
• Persuasion for Fun and Profit: 179
• The Misunderstood Motivator: 185
• You Can Punish Without Drawing Blood: 195
• Dancing When You Might Have Stumbled: 199
• Verbal Judo as an Automatic Response: 211

Popular passages

Page 10 - Judo can help you maintain those relationships and improve the quality of your life and the lives of those around you.‎

About the author

George J. Thompson, Ph.D., is a former English professor and a black bet master of karate. He created and crash-tested verbal judo when he was a police officer on an urban beat. He is now a popular lecturer and lives -in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jerry B. Jenkins was most recently the co-author of Miracle Mon. The Nolan Ryan Story.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
• Author: George Thompson
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010
• ISBN: 0062031686, 9780062031686
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Psychology / Interpersonal Relations; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General