Assess, review, reflect and reboot your skills as a communicator. Learn to listen and speak in ways that help you succeed.It is up to you to reinvent your leadership for yourself and for others. Use the assessments as a companion to the book, The Power of Zip, for a more successful career, relationships, and greater inner satisfaction.
A study guide to walk someone through self-analysis of how they speak and listen in two tracks: one is about speaking and listening with people; the other is about speaking and listening to God. If you have been hurt by words, this book will promote healing. If you feel powerless to speak effectively, this book will give you the tools to change that. If you don't listen well, this book will help you to hear more. If your relationships with others don't make you happy, learn what gets in the way and fix it. If you want to hear the voice of God, learn how to get read. If you want to value the people in your life in eternally significant ways, this book shows the way. If you want others to know the "real" you, this study guide will give you tools and courage to make it happen. Where is it written that you can't change the way you speak and the way you listen? Nowhere. Get started on reinventing the way others relate to you, the way you relate to others, and the way you relate to God.
The Power of the Zip is a manual to help anyone figure out how to speak and how to listen more effectively. With assessments and step by step guidelines to help people recognize what they are doing and reframe bad habits into "language leverage," The Power of the Zip will make people more successful in their professional and personal lives. Thirty-four powers of effective communication are explained and made easy: The Power of Listening, The Power of the Zip, The Power of Setting Context, The Power of Vocal Tone, The Power of the Question, The Power of Taking In, The Power of Silence, The Power of Caring, The Power of Being Real, The Power of Arresting, Compelling Language, The Power of Breathing, The Power of the Smile, The Power of Connection and many others will help people see themselves as others see them. If you are not fulfilled in your life and your work, this book is for you.
When you speak, do people hang on every word? In Luke 19:48 we read “…they hung on every word he said.” When Jesus spoke to a few or to many, people “hung on every word.”Does that happen to you? How does it make you feel when people don't.How do you think God feels?His creation, the world, and His word are open books for us to read, study, and ponder. And yet do we? This workbook will help you “hang on His words and have others hang on your words.”Looking at the Table of Contents for The Power of the Zip in a Heavenly Light, you may be overwhelmed at the size of the list. However, perhaps the most important zip to consider is The Zip of the Spirit.“Be silent, all mankind, before the Lord…” Zechariah 2:13 In silence there is an opportunity for the Lord to speak to us and change our thoughts, words, mental models, heart, hopes, dreams and our very souls.Learning to still the noises in our heads and our hearts will prepare us to hear the voice of the Lord. Many people think you need to be especially spiritual or religious or favored to hear God's voice. God's voice is for all people. “The heavens are telling the glory of God, the dome of the sky speaks the work of His hands. Every day it utters speech, every night it reveals knowledge. Without speech, without a word, without their voices being heard, their line goes out through all the earth, and their word to the end of the world.” Psalm 19:1-4Like a bestseller or You Tube video gone viral, the Bible is read all over the world in hundreds of languages and yet millions don't yet “get it.” The more we recognize God's voices around us every day, the more likely we will hear His voice as we read His word and listen for the particular words he has for us.Allow the insights and assessments prune you to strengthen you and the impact you can have with others. “He has already tended you by pruning you back for a greater strength and usefulness…” John 15:3God prunes us to make us stronger, not to weaken, hurt, or punish us. Many of us may feel like the psalmist who wrote, “They cut me down with sharpened tongues; they aim their bitter words like arrows straight at my heart.” Psalm 64:3 If that's true for you, help is at hand.The Power of the Zip in a Heavenly Light and this workbook can trigger significant revelations in your life. They can help inspire you:• To reflect on your habits of speaking and listening; ask others to assess you as well.• To return to God; include God in every thought, word and pause.• To reveal – ask God to reveal to you what He wants you to keep and what He wants you to discard.• To repent if you have hurt others with your words or silence.• To restore damaged relationships.• To renew your approach to speaking and listening, one conversation at a time.God invented the thirty-seven powers in the book. Each time we use one, we co-labor with God and harness His power for His purposes.What are His purposes? To have us be all that He designed us to be, not 2nd or 3rd class, but 1st class to the highest power. Then, as credible witnesses to His power, we can make Him famous.How would your job change if you saw your role differently? What would your work be like if your role were to coach your clients, boss, or family into your perspective? What would your work be like if you were to coach your clients, boss, or family to recognize why they needed your products or services? What would it be like if you helped your clients, boss, or family assess their needs? Then your job would be to help them get those needs met.
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