Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 The Connection Between Communications and Success
2
Verb Forms 5
CHAPTER 2 How to Use This Book 9
Additional Support for You 10
CHAPTER 3 100 Top Action Verbs for Business, Brokering,
Banking, Bargaining, and Occasionally Betting the Farm
14
CHAPTER 4 100 Top Action Verbs for Challenging Situations
and Difficult Moments, Calumny, Comebacks, or When You Just Want to
Get in the Last Word 83
CHAPTER 5 100 Top Action Verbs for Mind Games, Mental
Panache, Mastermind Monkey Business, Meeting MENSAs, or Just
Showing Off 125
CHAPTER 6 100 Top Action Verbs for Presenters, Professors,
Preachers, Poets, Playwrights, and Pundits Searching for Savoir
Faire 165
CHAPTER 7 100 Top Action Verbs for Schooling, Sagacity,
Shrewdness, and Other Times to Be Sharp and Serious 210
CHAPTER 8 100 Top Action Verbs for Schmoozing, Socializing,
Shindigs, Getting Sentimental, or Using Your Networking to Work the
Room 256
Additional Sources 307
Index 311
Every word matters. But some words matter most of all: verbs. Verbs are the catalysts of sentences. They bring communication to life – whether it's written or spoken. The right "power verbs" make you more memorable, impactful, and dynamic, whatever you’re doing – writing a resume, making a presentation, preparing a research paper, asking for a donation, or anything else. (Conversely, dull and uninteresting verbs can bore and alienate people – even if they have no idea why they don't like you!)
Now, in Top 100 Power Verbs, award-winning business communications expert and instructor Dr. Michael Faulkner shows you exactly how to choose action-packed verbs that electrify your communications, and attract your audience to you like moths to a flame. This concise, easy-to-use guide identifies today’s 100 most powerful verbs, and provides sample sentences showing you exactly how to use them.
Using these verbs and real-world examples, you can supercharge all your communications, separate yourself from the pack, and get what you want!
Dr. Michael Lawrence Faulkner is the author of six books. He is a professor at the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University. He is a former U.S. Marine who spent 30 years in a variety of leadership and executive management positions with Fortune 500 firms and major nonprofit trade associations. He also helped his family run the family business before beginning his second career in academics. Michael is a member of MENSA, a Rotary International Fellow, and a Keller Master Teacher Award recipient. He holds a Silver Certification by the Toastmaster’s International. In addition to his Ph.D., Michael has earned two Master’s degrees: one from NYU and an MBA from NYIT.
Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford is a 2001 graduate of Middle
Tennessee State University where she majored in English and minored
in Writing. Mrs. Lunsford spent 10+ years in the world of
advertising and marketing as an Account Manager and Director of
Marketing and New Business Development, managing multimillion
dollar accounts from male-enhancement medications to beer ads. In
2011, Michelle left the corporate world for the opportunity to
raise her daughter.
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