26 Ways to Improve People Skills (both at work & home)

26 ways to improve your people skills

 

At work

1.     Ask questions so you understand

2.     Listen so others feel hear

3.     Do a lunch and learn on a topic of interest to all parties

4.     Be clear on your expectations

5.     Treat others the way they want to be treated (The Platinum Rule)

6.     Build relationships with people the way they want to build relationships

7.     Let others be right

8.     Let others ask questions

9.     Build an effective sense of team

10.  Be a leader and create a vision for people to rally around

11.  Ask for feedback

12.  Give deadlines

13.  Define roles and responsibilities

 

At home (create a great marriage)

1.     Get your wife a cup of coffee in the morning before she gets out of bed

2.     Tell your wife how beautiful she is at least once a day

3.     Wake your wife up with a kiss every day

4.     Load and run the dishwasher

5.     Load and run the washing machine

6.     Give her a hug when she gets home every day

7.     Watch TV with her – even if it is a chick flick

8.     Cook a meal so it is ready when she gets home

9.     Clean up after you cook the meal

10.  Gas up her car

11.  Just listen and do not try to fix

12.  Get her oil changed for her

13.  Let her sleep late

 

Ron Finklestein

330-990-0788

ron@akris.net