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151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills
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151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills

by Robert Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
December 2008
Beginner
192 pages
3h 7m
English
Career Press
Audiobook available
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Some Nuts Are Worth Cracking
No, we’re not giving you permission to think of your office nemesis as a nut! Here we’re talking about hanging with those difficult relationships; not giving up at the first sign of trouble and throwing in the towel.
Assignment
Challenge yourself to crack one office nut.
We do this too often. We write people off at the first sign of difficulty. Sometimes these people have hard exteriors, making it difficult to understand them. Or they are people who seem to dislike us for some unknown reason.
With these folks it could be just a matter of being patient, having diligence, and getting to know the person one interaction at a time. It could be quite a while—months or even years—before we start to see these people ...
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ISBN: 9781601630377