4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication - a new book

I have been teaching communication and relationship skills for the past 12 years and this past year have been writing a book wherein I distilled the essence of what I have learned and practiced in my own words, examples, and anecdotal stories.

The book is titled: 4 ESSENTIAL KEYS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION – in Love, Life, Work – Anywhere!

It will come out as a Kindle e-book at Amazon,com that will be available for FREE for the first 2-3 days to get a lot of downloads and (hopefully) a lot of great reviews. You will be able to download it on a Kindle reader or onto your smartphone (just download the free Kindle app from your play store on your phone and download the e-book for free).

I’ll let you know when it comes out. Then I hope you’ll download it, read it (it’s not long), write a review at Amazon,com, and share it with your friends! And most of all — I hope what you learn from the book will be a benefit to you and your relationships!

The paperback version will come out about a month after the Kindle version and also be sold at Amazon,com. But my first objective is a successful launch of the Kindle version.

This is the subtitle: A How-To-Guide for Practicing the Empathic Listening, Speaking, and Dialogue Skills to Achieve Relationship Success with the Important People in Your Life

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 – How It All Started Chapter 2 – Empathy—The Essential Ingredient Chapter 3 – An Epiphany Chapter 4 – Key 1: Empathic Awareness Skill Chapter 5 – Key 2: Empathic Listening Skill Chapter 6 – Listening Blocks to Effective Communication Bento Leal Chapter 7 – Key 3: Empathic Speaking Skill Chapter 8 – Expressing When You’re Upset Chapter 9 – Key 4: Empathic Dialogue Chapter 10 – The 3 A’s: Applaud, Admire, Appreciate Chapter 11 – Nurture Your Relationship Garden Chapter 12 – Practice Makes Permanent Chapter 13 – NOW is the Time! Action Guide: “The 12-Day Communication Challenge!” Acknowledgements About the Author Urgent Plea!

Bento Leal is a Marriage and Relationship Educator in California. He taught communication skills classes to more than 2000 couples and singles at churches, family resource centers, community organizations, substance abuse recovery programs, county jails and federal prison. He has also conducted facilitator trainings at UTS in Barrytown in 2009, and UTS in NYC in 2011. He can be reached at bentoleal49@ gmail,com.