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How Can You Have More Power By Being Non-Defensive?

By Sharon Strand Ellison — 2013

A short talk on how shift from ways of using power in our interactions that are defensive and lead to power struggle to gaining far greater power by using non-defensive communication skills.

08:24 min

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Communication Skills