Restroom Reflections: How Communication Changes Everything

by Alison Jean Lester

These thought-provoking and entertaining essays on how to improve our communication – with ourselves, with our loved ones, with our colleagues and clients, and with strangers – offer tips on developing confidence, awareness, sensitivity, humor, effectiveness, and creativity.Communication coach and self-help author Alison Lester draws from her varied experiences as corporate coach, writer, stand-up and improvisational comedian, world traveler, mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend to bring you this series of pithy reflections on common communication hurdles and tools for making them feel a lot smaller. “Restroom Reflections is a must-read for anyone who endeavors to be a better communicator. It’s compulsive reading – full of insights and practical tips, all lovingly nestled in Alison’s witty and candid stories about life. The lessons in this book apply equally well in the boardroom, dining room, or waiting room.”- Andrea Howe, co-author, The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook

146 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 29, 2011

About the author

Alison Jean Lester was born to a British mother and an American father, who met on an airplane when she was a Pan Am stewardess and he was coming back from participating in the first American expedition to Mount Everest. She has variously studied, worked, and raised children in the US, the UK, China, Italy, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore, and now lives in England with her husband and their miniature schnauzer. Her first novel, Lillian on Life, was published in 2015, and her second, Yuki Means Happiness, came out in July 2017. Her memoir of her mother's amazing approach to the end of her life, Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying, was published on 22 October, 2020.