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The People Skills Revolution Handbook
A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing Sophisticated People Skills
One of the biggest barriers people have to developing the sophisticated people skills outlined in The People Skills Revolution is the belief that learning to influence others is in some way manipulative. This companion workbook will help you to overcome this resistance by providing a range of exercises to help you integrate the ideas in the book, whilst strengthening the belief that anyone with a positive intention and a readiness to step out of their comfort zone, to change their behaviours, can achieve remarkable results. The workbook will make the apparently impossible, possible by helping you to put the skills of assertiveness, influencing, negotiation, conciliation, taking a stand and making peace into action.
The book is based on an approach developed over 12 years ago when coaching senior executives who were mainly directors of finance. Since I coached a number of these very bright people for many years I was able to track then predict their next stages of development using a model I developed called ‘the continuum of interpersonal skills’.
Briefly this says that assertiveness skills underpin all healthy people skills. The book then suggests that once lack of assertiveness is addressed people will naturally go on to influence, negotiate, conciliate, take a stand and then finally can develop the skills to make peace.
The book is a step by step guide to cumulatively, effectively and safely developing all these skills in a step by step manner.
It was one of my clients who had seen the approach develop and contributed to its evolution through our discussions who observing its effectiveness on himself and his colleagues suggested that I write the book
Another influence was the amazing participants on assertiveness courses who are usually extremely hard working and conscientious people who are never going to get on because they don’t know the ‘rules of the game’ and see their less able colleagues and manipulative friends and family get the better of them.
The book contains powerful approaches and techniques which work and providing you are prepared to step out of your comfort zone to try new behaviours could change your life.
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