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Everyone communicates. By learning to communicate more effectively and efficiently, you can become a more valuable employee, improve your self-confidence, and increase your worth to your department and your company. As technologists, we are often better at communicating with the people who we see every day, but I know from experience (you know, those hits you take on your performance appraisals that suggest you could improve in your communication skills?) that we can improve in the way we interact with just about everyone we meet.

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Wells, A. (2018). Communication Matters. In: The Tech Professional's Guide to Communicating in a Global Workplace. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3471-6_1

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