12 Dirty Habits That Prevent You from Developing Exceptional People Skills (Part 2)

Yesterday we covered the first part i.e. the first 6 dirty habits you should always avoid when interacting with people if you want to develop the people skills you desire. Today, we focus on the second 6 habits. Click on "Read More" and check out habits number 7 to 12. 

      

12 Dirty Habits That Prevent You from Developing Exceptional People Skills (Part 1)

Chances are, if you’re not very successful at dealing with people, you haven’t had the chance to properly educate yourself. Learning to deal with people is like learning to walk except it requires a lot more work. Now imagine if your whole life you had been taught to walk backwards. Would this make your life much more difficult? Of course it would. Just like anything else, you need to learn exactly how to interact with people the proper way. Here we go: here are the 12 dirty habits (6 today, 6 tomorrow) you should always avoid when interacting with people. 

    

How to Know When Someone's Lying to You

Did you ever wonder if someone is lying to your right in your face? The following are a couple of small tips on what to focus on when you’d like to know if someone is being honest with you or not.   

How to Improve Your Creativity in Just 10 Minutes per Day

You are looking for ways to be more creative, but you just can’t find the time? Read the following advice and improve your creativity by allocating only 10 minutes every day. 

    

Increase Your Creativity

On “Read more”, you can find some useful advice that will help you increase your creativity and that will stimulate your creative thought processes. 

   

The Benefits of Pop Quizzes

No two words fill schoolchildren with more dread than "pop quiz". But mounting evidence suggests that quizzes can help students learn. Now researchers think they know one reason why: Students who take tests/quizzes seem to think up better ways of remembering information than students who simply study and review the information.  

    

How to Accept Being Shy

If you’re shy, it doesn’t mean you are alone. Lots of people claim they are shy and they hide it well. To be shy means to be sensitive. Sometimes shyness is perceived as a weakness, but it can have a lot of positive qualities. Once you accept your shy persona, you will conquer that weakness. Read the following advice on how to do just that. 

   

Memory Test

Find Peace in your Most Difficult Moments

Click on “Read more” for a couple of practical advices about dealing with your times of personal crises. 

    

How to be a Better Listener

Some people are simply good listeners, while others need to put in considerable effort. To listen to people nowadays is no small feat, especially because of our tendency to multitask. But, why don’t we try something different? After the break, you can find few techniques that will improve your communication. 

    

Six Tips for More Effective Business Communication

The Internet has made it both easier and more difficult for people to communicate. It is now easier than ever to send written correspondence; all it takes is the click of a button. But many people would rather send off a quick email than pick up the phone, which means more people than ever are putting even their quick, casual business communication in writing. If writing is not your strong point, you may not be communicating with coworkers, clients, and partners as effectively as you could be. Here are six tips to make your business communication skills better. 

    

Face your phobias

A phobia is defined as a psychological disorder – an intense, internal, often irrational fear that every one of us has inside themselves, in one way or another. 

   

How to Improve your Short-Term Memory

If you have difficulties remembering information that you've accumulated today, last week or last month, there's no need for fear. There are a couple of simple and easy-to-do ways to bring your short-term memory up to speed.  

   

Test your visual logic!

Job Interview: Ten Tough Questions and How to Answer Them (Part 2)

Yesterday we covered the first five “stress” questions you are most likely to encounter during a job interview, as well as proposed strategies on how to approach them. Today, we focus on the second five tricky questions that stand between you and the job you want. 

    

Job Interview: Ten Tough Questions and How to Answer Them (Part 1)

Expect to be asked several probing, hardball questions during your next job interview. In fact, if you aren't asked a few "stress" questions, your interview probably isn't going as well as you might think. Difficult, unsettling questions have become part of most interviewers' repertoires as they try to eliminate bad hires by screening candidates more carefully. The trick to fielding such clever queries is to realize why they're asked: primarily to gauge how fast you can think and how well you perform under pressure. The following are 10 typical stress questions and strategies on how you might answer them.  

   

Want to Ace Your Test? Share Your Feelings

Your entire future depends on this exam. Score high, and you'll get into the college of your dreams. Score low, and… well, it's best not to think about that right now. And yet, it's all you can think about. As the clock ticks and those around you scribble hard with their pencils, you stare at the test and your mind goes blank. You're choking.
  

How to control your emotions

How many times have you been so angry you didn’t know what to do, or have received a critique that has brought you to tears? People react differently to different situations, which we should find encouraging because that way we can learn from each other. Furthermore, not all of us control our emotions the same way and on the same level. Emotions, complex as they are, can most simply be divided into positive emotions (love, joy) and negative emotions (anger, pain, fear, anxiety).

  

Learning to be Happy at Work

Every professional and employee knows how bad the current economic condition is – no jobs, more pay cuts, layoffs, higher workload, no bonus, no appraisal, and what is even worse, everyone’s living in the fear of losing their job any minute. One can totally understand how stressful all this is for the working people. But you need to cope with all these issues or you’ll find it really hard to concentrate on your work and do a good job. Here is how you can divert your mind from this stressful situation and be happy at work. 

  

IQ Test (part 2)