People Skills: How to Assert Yourself
Posted on October 26th, 2009
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’ quarrel
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10 Responses to “People Skills: How to Assert Yourself”
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Orde Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 4:14 pm4.0 out of 5 stars
People Skills
The first chapter is slow to get through, but once you’ve read that, the chapters begin building on each other and work / home applications start really coming to light in the… -
Bimala Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 6:23 pm5.0 out of 5 stars
The techniques work
Of the perhaps hundreds of self-help books I’ve read or browsed, this one would be in the top five at least. -
Kaelem Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 9:28 pm1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible, threw it in the trash
I could not find one sentence helpful for my work situation. I threw it in the trash. -
Caia Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 4:19 am5.0 out of 5 stars
Great people skills book
Although “People Skills” was first published in 1986, I feel obliged to review it as the principles and lessons espoused by Robert Bolton are timeless. -
Paige Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 4:57 am5.0 out of 5 stars
A Personal Critique of Robert Bolton’s “People Skills”
The book People Skills by Dr. Robert Bolton was a tremendous asset to my reading list a few years ago. -
Fuller Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 5:21 am4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book that will have you “listening” in no time
While I purchased this book as a required reading material for my Master’s program, I find that I have now recommended it to about five other people (outside of school) in the… -
Haile Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 8:13 am4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for Personal & Professional Communication Skills
This communication skills handbook is a good one to add to your library. Sometimes people need to be refreshed on old skills, especially if one does not attend any type of annual… -
Jagat Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm5.0 out of 5 stars
People Skills:How to AsertYourself. Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicks
This is an very detailed people skills guide on how to be sucessful in today’s complex world. I found it a very high caliber read about communication. -
Yamilet Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 3:41 pm5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Book
This is a wonderful book by Robert Bolton on people skills focusing on effective communication particularly listening skills, assertion techniques, effective conflict resolution… -
Mustafa Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 10:04 pm4.0 out of 5 stars
Useful insights, practical exercises.
Written in 1979, People Skills is a classic in the field of communication skills. Like many people, I decided to read this book after it turned up on a must-read list for…