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Infectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within
Master performance coach Achim Nowak teaches readers how to create profound interpersonal connections for explosive business success!
Technology has transformed the way we communicate. We send and receive more and more emails every day. We text. We tweet. We have reduced our communications down to efficient sound bites—and at the same time, many of us seem to know less and less about how to connect. Deeply, profoundly connect.
In Infectious, acclaimed performance coach Achim Nowak introduces the reader to his powerful four Levels of Connection. Tested and honed through fifteen years of coaching senior-level executives around the globe, Nowak’s techniques instantly transform the skills taught in traditional business communication and NLP programs. People who connect deeply with others connect on four levels: They shape conversations with effortless grace, and they play consciously with the unspoken elements of a connection—personal power, intention, and energy. The result? Infectious connections that accelerate personal success!
Infectious offers simple language cues that deepen and shift the art of conversation. It breaks the idea of power into five tangible plugs that we can turn to—and turn on. These plugs recharge the quality of our connection with anyone we meet. It shows how we can clarify our intentions, and how this clarification immediately fosters a more potent connection. Finally, this book demystifies the experience of energy—the deepest of the four levels, and the root of any connection. It looks at how we access our energy. Remove energy blocks. Play with energy and own it.
This highly practical book reshapes the hidden forces of a connection into simple, step-by-step actions. Apply the tools of Infectious and generate your own infectious connections!
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Technology has transformed the way we communicate. We send and receive more and more emails every day. We text. We tweet. We have reduced our communications down to efficient sound bites—and at the same time, many of us seem to know less and less about how to connect. Deeply, profoundly connect.
In Infectious, acclaimed performance coach Achim Nowak introduces the reader to his powerful four Levels of Connection. Tested and honed through fifteen years of coaching senior-level executives around the globe, Nowak’s techniques instantly transform the skills taught in traditional business communication and NLP programs. People who connect deeply with others connect on four levels: They shape conversations with effortless grace, and they play consciously with the unspoken elements of a connection—personal power, intention, and energy. The result? Infectious connections that accelerate personal success!
Infectious offers simple language cues that deepen and shift the art of conversation. It breaks the idea of power into five tangible plugs that we can turn to—and turn on. These plugs recharge the quality of our connection with anyone we meet. It shows how we can clarify our intentions, and how this clarification immediately fosters a more potent connection. Finally, this book demystifies the experience of energy—the deepest of the four levels, and the root of any connection. It looks at how we access our energy. Remove energy blocks. Play with energy and own it.
This highly practical book reshapes the hidden forces of a connection into simple, step-by-step actions. Apply the tools of Infectious and generate your own infectious connections!
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
232 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Achim Nowak
12 books5 followersAchim Nowak is an Executive Coach, Business Thinker, TEDx Speaker, Mastermind Convener and Virtual Masterclass Host.
The author of 3 books on Personal Presence, Achim has helped hundreds of CEOs and C-Suite executives in global enterprises such as Takeda, Sanofi, Owens Corning and Dover Industries to amplify their personal influence.
His eclectic background includes training as a Mediator at the Brooklyn Courts, co-founding an acclaimed theatre company in Washington DC, serving on the faculty of New York University for over a decade, and spending a year windsurfing on the island of Tobago.
The author of 3 books on Personal Presence, Achim has helped hundreds of CEOs and C-Suite executives in global enterprises such as Takeda, Sanofi, Owens Corning and Dover Industries to amplify their personal influence.
His eclectic background includes training as a Mediator at the Brooklyn Courts, co-founding an acclaimed theatre company in Washington DC, serving on the faculty of New York University for over a decade, and spending a year windsurfing on the island of Tobago.
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October 11, 2013
While making interesting points, Achim Nowak's guide to unleashing my inner energetic leader will not stick with me like something truly infectious.
I agree with his four levels of connection that range from basic (language) to profound (energy), and I appreciate his tips for taking action on each level. My favorite is his discussion of charisma and his advice to give "20% more of everything.... Don't try to figure out how to do it, just think '20% more' and take a leap of faith" (p.92), advice that resonates with my faith-filled and goal-oriented mindset.
However, besides gaining new perspective on old topics, I did not learn anything new. His advice is weak in comparison to that of self-help luminary Stephen Covey and his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a book that transformed my approach to life. He explains how to engage, but he mostly skips over how to be rooted in your own self, especially your principles, in order to stand strong in the eyes of others. Moreover, Nowak's Level 4 (energy) is little more than a sales pitch for mystical alternative healing practices. He says of his main energy sources (chakras), "If you dismiss them entirely, you are also dismissing any opportunity of experiencing the powerful energy that travels through the chakras" (p.145), which is entirely untrue: I can access my inner energy in infinite ways, one of which is through chakras. Nowak displays a closed-mindedness here that raises my suspicions about all he has to offer.
Infectious is a fine book to keep your head in the game if you need a reminder on basic skills to connect with other people, but if you're feeling dead in life, then don't stop here: go straight to the fresh, invigorating ideas of Stephen Covey.
I agree with his four levels of connection that range from basic (language) to profound (energy), and I appreciate his tips for taking action on each level. My favorite is his discussion of charisma and his advice to give "20% more of everything.... Don't try to figure out how to do it, just think '20% more' and take a leap of faith" (p.92), advice that resonates with my faith-filled and goal-oriented mindset.
However, besides gaining new perspective on old topics, I did not learn anything new. His advice is weak in comparison to that of self-help luminary Stephen Covey and his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a book that transformed my approach to life. He explains how to engage, but he mostly skips over how to be rooted in your own self, especially your principles, in order to stand strong in the eyes of others. Moreover, Nowak's Level 4 (energy) is little more than a sales pitch for mystical alternative healing practices. He says of his main energy sources (chakras), "If you dismiss them entirely, you are also dismissing any opportunity of experiencing the powerful energy that travels through the chakras" (p.145), which is entirely untrue: I can access my inner energy in infinite ways, one of which is through chakras. Nowak displays a closed-mindedness here that raises my suspicions about all he has to offer.
Infectious is a fine book to keep your head in the game if you need a reminder on basic skills to connect with other people, but if you're feeling dead in life, then don't stop here: go straight to the fresh, invigorating ideas of Stephen Covey.
September 1, 2015
Solid book on getting past the fake conversations we have to kill time. Great insight on having in-depth conversations for both introverts and extroverts.
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