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Identifying your Strengths in Communication

This website helps you identify your communication strengths and helps you understand how to develop those skills you lack. Be sure to read about specific skills on the menu on the left side of the page and to take the skills self-assessment.

More Information on Various Communication Skills

Below are some links where you can learn more about a few different communication skills. If you are looking for information on a skill that you don't see listed below, feel free to stop by the library and get help from a librarian.

How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Rhodes
ISBN: 9780857084088
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Includes advice on overcoming fears and how to start conversations.

All About Nonverbal Communication
Learn about nonverbal communication/body language. Be sure to explore the resources at the bottom of the page.
Assess & Improve Your Assertiveness
Go through the linked modules to learn about assertiveness, where you stand, and how you can improve.
Conflict Resolution
Learn about conflict resolution. Be sure to explore the resources at the bottom of the page.
Conflict Resolution in Marriage
John Gottman is world renowned for his research on marriage stability and predictors of divorce. With these 4 indicators, Gottman can predict divorce with 90% accuracy.
How Good are Your Listening Skills?
Take the quiz and then use the links to learn more about and to improve your active listening, emphatic listening, body language, and questioning skills.
Mindfulness Techniques: The Art of Conversation
A few tips for being mindful in conversation.
Saying No
Learn about and how to say no.
Top 10 Ways to Improve Communication
General advice for improving communication.

Setting Goals

Goal Setting by Susan B. Wilson; Michael Singer Dobson
ISBN: 9780814410479
Publication Date: 2008-03-12

• How to set goals - Article

A how-to for setting and meeting self-improvement goals.

Popular Books on Communication

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Call Number: BF 637 .S8 C37 2009
ISBN: 9781439167342
Publication Date: 2009-11-03
Carnegie's classic bestseller--an inspirational personal-development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success--is now in a newly packaged edition, the first hardcover release of this classic since 1981.
People Skills by Robert Bolton
Call Number: HM 132 .B65 1986
ISBN: 067162248X
Publication Date: 1986-06-06
People Skills is a communication-skills handbook that can help you eliminate all communication problems.
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Call Number: HQ 734 .C466 2004
ISBN: 1881273156
Publication Date: 1992-10-13
While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch are the five basic love languages. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return.