Improve Your People Skills: Build and Manage Relationships, Communicate Effectively, Understand Others, and Become the Ultimate People Person

Publisher's Summary

People skills and social intelligence to improve any situation. Fit in anywhere, build rapport and win people over.

If you (1) have trouble connecting with people beyond small talk or (2) are often left speechless and dumbfounded on how to handle certain people and situations, that feeling of dread isn't something you have to live with. Improve Your People Skills is your key to social intelligence and the better relationships to enrich your life that will inevitably follow.

Master the soft skills that will make you a "people person".

Improve Your People Skills is a book of action that allows you to truly understand others and speak their language, no matter what it is. You'll learn how to apply great charm to make new friends and engage old ones. It will fundamentally change your approach to people and give you the specific phrases and tools for change. It goes beyond emotional intelligence and gives you a blueprint for interaction.

Become a captivating, comforting, and desired presence.

Whether it's winning at work politics, making new friends or strengthening current relationships, people skills are your quickest and surest route to success - no matter the situation.

Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and sought-after social skills coach and trainer. He knows firsthand the value of people skills because they rescued him from lackluster grades and jumpstarted his career - the value of "just fitting in anywhere" cannot be understated.

Handle any situation smoothly - even confrontations.

• Why self-interests matter, and what secondary self-interests are
• How to reform the toxic social habits you probably have
• Uncover your rapport-killing assumptions and mental leaps
• Bad listening and effective listening

©2017 Patrick King (P)2017 Patrick King

I felt like the narrator was a close friend talking to me - things I needed to know but that no one told me

I really liked this book and I’ll be listening to it again and again. Lately, I have been struggling at work with my social skills. Patrick king reminds us that at the core of every situation every human wants the same thing: validation, acceptance, and acknowledgement (those might not be the exact words but you get the idea). I need to listen to it again to really get it to soak in. First time around about 3 percent stuck which to me, if a book sticks at all it is of value. All that he wrote is obviously from personal experience and not just him talking ABOUT it AT us.

19 of 20 people found this review helpful

Best one so far, imo.

This is the kind of stuff I Actually wanted from my psychology courses. Is this what communications majors learn? I should've tried that instead.

This is my favorite of the 3 that I've listened to so far. And so far they're all fairly distinct. They've all contained some different actionable information to aid your success in self-improvement and people skills. I intend to keep listening.

Narration and examples in this one were solid.

17 of 18 people found this review helpful

very good read

I loved this book, very simple language and straight to the point. very effective I would love to see more from this author

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

This book is a must read

This book has helped me shape who I am today. I always had what I thought was good people skills but this book is helping me take it to the next level it gave me more tools to become a great communicator.

Good Content

I just realized this was the second book by Patrick King that I bought in the last week. I enjoyed his other book "Improv(e) Your Conversations" much more.

I did like the concept of the Platinum Rule in this book as opposed to the Golden Rule, and I hadn't heard about Ethos, Pathos and Logos before so I'm interested in researching that more. Also the four personality types was interesting I'll try to remember that when interacting with different people. I guess there were a couple concepts this book introduced to me, but it seemed a little simplistic. I would recommend Patrick King's other book "Improv(e) Your Conversations" first.

Must hear

Awesome book. Everyone must read if you want to succeed in the world, built relationships, and win at life.

A must listen for anyone

A must listen for anyone who wants to improve their people skills. I will be listening this book again.

Awesome read

really enjoyed listening to this book and will use the authors advice in my everyday life.

Helpful Book

Great ideas to consam plate and implement need to read this more than once for shore

amazing self improve

this has been one of the most amazing self improve books I've ever heard of and it had made me realize for the things I have different been 1 of the most amazing self improve book I've ever heard of and eat had made me realize for the things I have and have helped me build better relationship with friends and co-workers