Bacal & Associates Product Catalogue
Bacal & Associates Tools To Help You Build Better Relationships In The Home, and the Workplace
Tools To Help You Learn. Tools To Help You To A Better Career, and Better Relationships At Home and On The Job
Almost everything we do has, at its core, the idea that enhanced communication skills will lead to better careers, and better relationships everywhere in life, at home, at work. For example, people who get promoted tend to have better communication and conflict management skills.
The tools on this page focus primarily on helping you learn basic and advanced skills in a number of areas -- in fact the skills are life skills often neglected as we grow up.
Put in your hands, the tools to learn about effective communication, conflict management, leadership, and performance appraisal to stimulate your thinking, help you learn, and make it possible to achieve your career goals, and improve your relationships.
Here's What We Have For You
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Books
Conflict Prevention In The Workplace - Using Cooperative Communication
A completely different approach to conflict, this book explains to you how your words will often create completely unnecessary conflict in your life. We simply aren't taught to communicate with each other in cooperative ways, and most of us don't learn how to replace subtle confrontational language and phrases with language that builds bridges instead of blowing them up.
If It Wasn't For The Customers, I'd Really Like This Job: Stop Angry, Hostile Customers COLD While Remaining Professional, Stress Free, Efficient and Cool As A Cucumber!
Published in 2011, a pared down version of our Defusing Hostile Customers Workbook. Lower cost, but all the skills, techniques and methods for dealing with the most difficult, upset and irate customers you can imagine. Reduce stress, increase confidence AND stay professional!
LearnBytes For Busy Learners
LearnBytes are concise, short, yet complete ways for you to learn about the topic covered. Consider them the 30 minute coaching session you'd be paying up to $50.00 an hour for. Distilled from book content, and the work of Robert Bacal, we GUARANTEE you'll learn what you need. If not? We offer a complete money-back guarantee. Usually available in printed form, downloadable PDF, and for the Kindle.
Learn To Fight Fair and Survive Disagreements LearnBytes Helpcard
If you learn ONE set of skills, learn how to fight fair. The benefits are huge, and backed up by current research, which shows that couples that fight fairly when faced with disagreements are much more likely to stay together. AND, the fight fair techniques in this LearnBytes work with friends and your colleagues at work. Get it now..
The Responsive Manager-Leader LearnBytes
Most of us actually lead others, even if we don't hold official leadership positions. Think about it. Do you lead at home? You probably haven't thought about it, but your relationships with your kids and family members will sometimes be like a formal leader to his or her "followers". Responsiveness is a key aspect of leadership anywhere, and we'll teach you all about it.
Getting Your Boss To Listen, and Really Hear LearnBytes
You want your ideas and your requests -- for a raise or more responsibility -- to be taken seriously, but often times, your boss or manager isn't always "ready" or able to hear what you have to say. However, there's an art and a science to get through to your boss, by modifying how and when you talk to him or her. And, you can learn it and learn it fast. That's what this LearnBytes is about.
Getting The Most From Performance Appraisal For Employees Helpcard
So you have a review coming up. You know, the ones you fret about? You want to handle the meeting well, so it helps your career, but how do you do it. From the author of best sellers on performance reviews, comes a tool to guide you through preparing and being in the annual review meeting. Here's how to plan, and act -- what to say in tough situations, and what to ask.
What You Need To Know About Conversational Cons -- Spotting Agendas, Yours and Others, In Conversation
It's almost impossible to become a "human lie detector" by looking at supposed universal physical signals of deceit. People just don't work that way, BUT it is possible to identify when people are operating based on their own agendas--often undisclosed, and sometimes even operating unconsciously. This LearnByte explains how to spot the little "con" jobs that we all use, on occasion, even in ourselves. Eighteen language signals of possible deceit.
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