Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Effective Communication Skills
Dalton Kehoe & The Great Courses · 2013
🎙 Narrated by Dalton Kehoe
78/100
👍 Worth It
This is a proper college course on why we misunderstand each other — Kehoe digs into the psychology behind our conversational blind spots and builds toward real tools for listening better. It's structured and academic rather than a breezy read, and the narration (Kehoe himself, in classic Great Courses lecture style) is clear and steady, just not built for casual listening.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Self-narrated by Kehoe in a clear, unhurried professorial style suited to study rather than casual listening.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing72
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers86
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict78
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