People Skills by Robert Bolton
Improve your personal and professional relationships instantly with this timeless guide to communication, listening skills, body language, and conflict resolution. A wall of silent resentment shuts you off from someone you love.You listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other.Your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you. People Skills is a communication-skills handbook that can help you eliminate these and other communication problems. Author Robert Bolton describes the twelve most common communication barriers, showing how these roadblocks damage relationships by increasing defensiveness, aggressiveness, or dependency. He explains how to acquire the ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems with others. These are skills that will help you communicate calmly, even in stressful emotionally charged situations. People Skills will show you: - How to get your needs met using simple assertion techniques - How body language often speaks louder than words - How to use silence as a valuable communication tool - How to de-escalate family disputes, lovers' quarrels, and other heated arguments Both thought-provoking and practical, People Skills is filled with workable ideas that you can use to improve your communication in meaningful ways, every day.
May Sim is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University. She is the editor of The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780136557616 |
| ISBN 10 | 0136557619 |
| Title | People Skills |
| Author | Robert Bolton |
| Series | A Spectrum Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall |
| Year published | 1980-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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