There isn’t one way to listen. It’s time to adapt our listening!Adaptive Listening is for those wanting to improve the way they, and their teams, communicate up, down, across, internally, and externally. Through engaging stories and practical techniques, the authors introduce a new model for listening. Not just another book on communication. Adaptive Listening helps readers up-level the under-trained side of communication amidst the realities of a hectic workday. Researched and tested exclusively in the work setting, readers will move beyond active listening and embrace effective and easy-to-remember techniques that reduce ambiguity and tension.  Leaders at all levels can improve their listening skills. Emerging and established leaders can build more awareness about their own listening style and the impact it has on workplace culture. Only then can they adapt to meet the goals and needs of direct reports, peers, managers, customers, and stakeholders. Inside, you’ll learn: How to leverage the strengths and avoid the pitfalls of your own listening style, including the way you process and respond to information, leading to increased self-awareness and professional growth How to break away from ineffective listening and step into adaptive listening to meet the goals and needs of the person speaking  How to reduce mistrust, misalignment, and miscommunication by being more mindful of the barriers that prevent you from using empathetic communication How to cue others listeners—who aren’t yet familiar with Adaptive Listening— to listen in the way you want and need If you're looking for books on building empathy in the workplace, best-selling books for leaders, or books on active listening, add this book to your list! If you enjoyed You’re Not Listening, Just Listen, Listen Like You Mean It, How to Listen with Intention, or Power Listening, then you’ll love Adaptive Listening.

A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence. While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in love. Just 14 years old, naive and vulnerable, she had no reason to suspect that the man who said he loved her would commit the ultimate betrayal of her trust. When her mother returned to England, Megan stayed with Jak, who said he would find her a job as a waitress and promised they would be together forever. But when Megan travelled to the city with Jak, his attitude quickly changed and instead of finding her work as a waitress, he allowed her to be raped and then sold her to a human trafficker. Abandoned by Jak but still unable to accept that everything he'd told her had been a lie, Megan was coerced by threats and violence into working as a prostitute in private homes and brothels. Then the trafficker threatened her mother's life and it was Megan's turn to lie: sending her mother the staged photographs that had been taken of her apparently working as a waitress in a cafe, she told her she was happy. Too frightened and bewildered to trust or reach out to anyone, Megan remained locked in a world of brutality and abuse for six years. In the end, there only seemed to be one way out. Megan's powerful story reveals the devastating realities of human trafficking and the fear that imprisons its victims more effectively than any cage could ever do.