Comments on: People Skills: How to Assert Yourself

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:04:29 +0000

4.0 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…

By: Yamilet

Yamilet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:41:47 +0000

5.0 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…

By: Jagat

Jagat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:17:22 +0000

5.0 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.

By: Haile

Haile — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:13:58 +0000

4.0 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…

By: Fuller

Fuller — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:21:52 +0000

4.0 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…

By: Paige

Paige — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:57:46 +0000

5.0 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.

By: Caia

Caia — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:19:50 +0000

5.0 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.

By: Kaelem

Kaelem — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:28:48 +0000

1.0 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.

By: Bimala

Bimala — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:23:43 +0000

5.0 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.

By: Orde

Orde — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:14:24 +0000

4.0 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...