How to Succeed with People: Remarkably Easy Ways to Engage, Influence and Motivate Almost Anyone
By Paul McGee
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Let's face it, if you want any sort of success in life you’re going to have to deal with other people at some point. All success requires input from other people – even if you've invented something in your bedroom, eventually, you're going to need to interact with people to take it to the next level. And even if you don’t desperately hanker after success, you surely want to be liked, have friends, get on well with people? Learning how to better communicate and interact with others can really help to improve your life – from ensuring you enjoy parties more to turning you into a roaring success magnet. So whether you dread social events with a passion and spend evenings cringing in a corner, or just want to have better relationships at work and in life, then How to Succeed With People, written in Paul’s characteristic down to earth, approachable style, can help you become a people magnet.
Learn how to:
- Hold people’s attention when you talk
- Listen and react properly to what others are saying or doing
- Better confront, complain and deal with difficult conversations
- Give compliments and praise
- Deal with interviews, networking events, difficult conversations and more
- And much more
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How to Succeed with People - Paul McGee
Section One
Stop, Understand
cmp1-fig-5001cmp1-fig-5002Clare seemed very distressed. I’m thirty years old, unemployed and still live at home with my parents. There are only two reasons why I can’t get a job. Either there’s something wrong with the world or there’s something wrong with me. Clearly the world isn’t to blame for where I’m at in life at present, so the problem clearly lies with me. I need fixing. Can you help?
Wow. I’d only asked her how she was.
Clare had a very black and white view of life – perhaps more so than most of us. But she fell into a trap I believe many of us can fall into.
Believing people can be fixed.
Such people believe there must be a formula. A cure. Some instant solution that will remedy their problem, either with themselves or someone else.
Bite Size Wisdom
Stop looking for quick fix solutions to complex, long-term problems
Well in case you hadn’t noticed, people are not machines. A car or a computer may need a faulty part replacing before it’s functioning again, but people are a little more complex. And as soon as you start looking to fix
people or fix
yourself you’re in trouble.
The problem is we’re so used to getting things
fixed we start believing we can also do the same with people.
The reality is very different.
If you’ve got trouble with your phone you can ring a helpline and follow the step by step instructions on how to resolve it. Voila. Before you know it your problem is sorted. Carefully follow the instructions on how to erect your flat pack furniture and before your very eyes emerges your own TV stand with matching set of tables (although to be fair the ones I build end up looking more like a double