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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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Practice Tolerance
When we speak of tolerance, we are talking about tolerance for other people’s points of view, others’ ideas, others’ strengths and weaknesses, and so on.
Remember that people are all different and they have different attitudes, opinions, and values. They also have different strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes some or all of these things can seem to be a problem. Sometimes they seem to be barriers to relationships and to getting things done.
Assignment
Practice this the next time someone else comes up short on an assignment or expresses the, “that’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard” type of thought.
We all need to recognize that we are different, and to cherish those differences. After all, if we were all the same, it would ...
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ISBN: 9781601630377