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Sue's eNewsletter - Be Understood There's lots of great info about intelligent communication (and more to come). To subscribe, beginning with the next issue, simply put your email address in the box below and click "GO".

eCourse - Can We Talk? Start building an engaged, productive work team today. Use the most powerful business tool you’ll ever have – real conversation. Every other day, for two weeks, you’ll receive an e-mail with a lesson and a little field work to do. Using techniques drawn from professional communicators, you will be able to:
- Identify your purpose and context and get to the point of your conversation.
- Use language your audience will understand – and avoid words that trigger trouble.
- Ask for and get useful feedback on your communication.
- Use active listening not only to understand, but also to be understood.

Whether you’re the team leader or an individual contributor, developing your face-to-face conversation skills will improve your career – and maybe your life. Get started today. Sign up here:

Valuable FREE Articles - by Sue Johnston - Visit the Article Archives for an assortment of articles Sue's written on the topics of - what else? - communication and personal development.

FREE Book Chapter : In 2005, Sue was invited to contribute a chapter to “Be Your Own Great And Powerful: A Woman’s Guide To Living Your Real, Big Life,” edited by Barbara Bellissimo. In the book, 10 women share the stories of how they discovered who they are. Here’s Sue’s chapter, “Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.”

Sue's Blogs - Visit Sue's principal weblog, Being Understood - tales of adventure in trying to communicate with other humans in the 21st century. On a more personal note, she writes Same Song New Verse where she shares her poems and songs. Sue's also one of the Transformational Girlfriendsand contributes to their blog. These eight women are dedicated to making the world - or at least the part we can influence - a better place.

Other People's Cool Free Stuff

eBook - How Much Joy Can You Stand? —  4.21 MB: - Here's Suzanne Falter-Barns’ great little e-book on tapping your creativity and turning projects you dream of into reality. Sue is a licensed How Much Joy facilitator and can offer this material as a workshop or keynote address.

Wonderful resource The Marshall Goldsmith Library Marshall Goldsmith practically invented executive coaching and he's an extraordinary writer and teacher. (Can you tell we're fans?) He's made his writings and video courses available to anyone who wants them. Let’s let Dr. Goldsmith tell you about it. “The immodest goal the School and I have set for ourselves is to make this the best online library in the world for management, coaching and organizational psychology. We're not there yet, but we're on our way.”

Dip into Getting Real.  Here, free to online readers, are 16 chapters and 91 essays that tell you how to build a successful web based application. They make up the book Getting Real. It’s from the folks at 37 Signals, leading the charge in effective web delivery of useful applications.