• This book is an offering from Duarte.com, a premier communication consultancy and training company renowned for helping individuals and businesses communicate effectively and influence their industries.
• Foreword by Nancy Duarte, the globally acclaimed communication expert featured in numerous prestigious publications like Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company. As the Silicon Valley storyteller, she leads Duarte, Inc., a global leader in crafting influential business messages.
• Nancy Duarte’s influence extends to some of the most important brands and entities, including Apple, Google, Cisco, and Salesforce. A popular keynote speaker, Nancy imparts her wisdom in business schools and prestigious universities like Stanford and UC Berkeley.
• Nancy is also a successful author, with three bestselling books to her credit. She brings her wealth of knowledge to the foreword of this book.
• Content for the book is developed by Nicole Lowenbraun, a Senior Content Developer and Executive Speaker Coach at Duarte, Inc. A speech-language pathologist, she lends her expertise to the book, enriching it with the power of words.
• The book also benefits from contributions by Maegan Stephens, Ph.D., a communication expert who heads content and coaching services at Duarte, Inc. With her profound industry experience, she adds valuable insights to the book.
• This book targets business communicators, especially those aspiring to climb the corporate ladder, feel stuck in their careers, seek a stronger presence, or work in customer-facing roles. It specifically caters to high potential employees (HIPOs), as mentioned by Nancy during a meeting.
• Duarte could potentially partner with readers in taking the book's lessons forward, given its wealth of trainings, a large content library that can be repurposed, and more books in the pipeline.
• The book is an integral part of Duarte's ongoing business strategy, reflecting the company's commitment to communication excellence.
• Promotional activities for the book leverage Duarte's close relationships with global brands, financial organizations, and thought leaders.
• The release of this book is part of a broader engagement strategy that includes a variety of content forms like stories, workshops, ebooks, and elearnings.

There isn’t one way to listen. It’s time to adapt our listening!

Adaptive Listening is for those wanting to improve the way they, and their teams, communicate up, down, across, internally, and externally. Through engaging stories and practical techniques, the authors introduce a new model for listening.

Not just another book on communication. Adaptive Listening helps readers up-level the under-trained side of communication amidst the realities of a hectic workday. Researched and tested exclusively in the work setting, readers will move beyond active listening and embrace effective and easy-to-remember techniques that reduce ambiguity and tension. 

Leaders at all levels can improve their listening skills. Emerging and established leaders can build more awareness about their own listening style and the impact it has on workplace culture. Only then can they adapt to meet the goals and needs of direct reports, peers, managers, customers, and stakeholders.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• How to leverage the strengths and avoid the pitfalls of your own listening style, including the way you process and respond to information, leading to increased self-awareness and professional growth
• How to break away from ineffective listening and step into adaptive listening to meet the goals and needs of the person speaking 
• How to reduce mistrust, misalignment, and miscommunication by being more mindful of the barriers that prevent you from using empathetic communication
• How to cue others listeners—who aren’t yet familiar with Adaptive Listening— to listen in the way you want and need

If you're looking for books on building empathy in the workplace, best-selling books for leaders, or books on active listening, add this book to your list! If you enjoyed You’re Not Listening, Just Listen, Listen Like You Mean It, How to Listen with Intention, or Power Listening, then you’ll love Adaptive Listening.