Book Summary: How To Work With Just About Anyone

Written by Regine P. Azurin


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Use reverse psychology!

1. Do something unexpected. Sometimes shock tactics or being brutally honest works. 2. Encouragerepparttar person to keep doing what it is that is irritating behavior. It is strange but encouraging people to continue their irritating behavior gets them to stop it. 3. Have fun experimenting with your new approaches! 4. Tell someone not to change what he is doing. 5. Create consequences or letrepparttar 106435 natural consequences of his negative behavior occur. 6. Urge someone to dorepparttar 106436 annoying actions even more

New Conflict Management Techniques 1. Do not offer a long list of reasons why someone should change. Simply tell them what needs to be done. The more you rationalize or arguerepparttar 106437 more they will resist. You will be wasting time and energy. 2. Inrepparttar 106438 face of constant criticism, silently take note of what is being said, then readrepparttar 106439 notes back – instead of actively defending each point. 3. Make statements (“Unless it creates a problem for you, I’m going to do X”) 4. Give a specific compliment torepparttar 106440 other party in a conflict. (“I likerepparttar 106441 way you presented your report – your lineup of facts made it easy to follow”) It catches them off-guard and makes him/her less defensive. 5. Excuse yourself for a minute inrepparttar 106442 midst of a heated discussion to go torepparttar 106443 toilet instead of escalatingrepparttar 106444 argument. 6. Hold back for thirty minutes instead of rushing to fix a problem for someone else.

Other “happy workplace” tips: 1. Keep an open mind about whyrepparttar 106445 person behaves in such a manner. 2. See both sides ofrepparttar 106446 situation, not just yours. 3. Be very specific when analyzingrepparttar 106447 problem. Make a mental videotape ofrepparttar 106448 behavior. 4. Notice when it isn’t happening. Understand why. You may have overlooked something you did that didn’t result inrepparttar 106449 other person’s annoying behavior. 5. Find someone with immunity and see how he or she successfully handlesrepparttar 106450 troublesome behavior that you’re struggling with.

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Marketing is How You Show Others How You Can Help Them

Written by Richard Stooker


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But bad marketing forces consumers to makerepparttar connection betweenrepparttar 106434 wonderful qualities ofrepparttar 106435 product and how those qualities can helprepparttar 106436 consumer.

Many companies who market this way believe that it's repparttar 106437 "job" of consumers to makerepparttar 106438 connections, to understand just why and how that wonderful product will helprepparttar 106439 consumer.Therefore, they're not only selfish, they're lazy.

They're not takingrepparttar 106440 final step to see things from repparttar 106441 viewpoint of their potential customers.

Good marketing does as much as possible to show consumers thatrepparttar 106442 product is wonderful because of how and why it can help consumers.

How does this apply to someone seeking a job?

When you want a job or promotion you're "selling" your skills and experience. Your resume is your ad.

Your "customer" isrepparttar 106443 Human Resources manager assigned to fill that job.

Most job seekers, whether techies or anybody else, think that their only duty is to provide a resume which shows they're qualified and to show up forrepparttar 106444 interview.

The manager in charge of hiring is supposed to readrepparttar 106445 resume, realize how wonderfulrepparttar 106446 applicant is and hire them.

Most people write their resumes as bad marketing. They write how wonderful they are without explaining how they can helprepparttar 106447 company they're applying to.

They may well have wonderful degrees, wonderful certifications and wonderful experience.

Many techies haverepparttar 106448 attitude that their technical education, skills and experience should be enough.

But if they'd write something thatrepparttar 106449 Human Resources manager wants to read about how they will helprepparttar 106450 company, that's taking a step most people unconsciously sneer at it.

Because it's "sales and marketing." Sales and marketing is selfish -- everybody knows that without questioning it.

So they write only about themselves and not how they can help that potential employer.

So it'srepparttar 106451 "selfish" person who takesrepparttar 106452 extra effort to use "sales and marketing" to explain how they can helprepparttar 106453 company who actually getsrepparttar 106454 job.

So everybody else can sneer at them.

And send their resumes torepparttar 106455 next employer.

Copyright 2002 by Info Ring Press

I hereby grant permission to all website owners and ezine publishers to reprintrepparttar 106456 above article as long as long as it is reprinted as is in full, including this contact information. Email Richard Stooker: mailto:rick@inforingpress.com

Richard Stooker is the author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career. http://www.inforingpress.com/

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