The Social Skills Guidebook

Manage Shyness, Improve Your Conversations, and Make Friends, Without Giving Up Who You Are

By: Chris MacLeod MSW

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

You think your social life could be better. You've felt shy as long as you can remember. Your conversations have more awkward moments than you'd like. Maybe you don't need a ton of friends, but you'd like to have some people to hang out with on occasion. You want to make changes, but you don't know where to start. Lots of people have been in your shoes, so you're hardly a lost cause, and it's never too late to turn things around. The Social Skills Guidebook gives you insights into your interpersonal struggles and behaviors, and offers hands-on advice for developing and improving your people skills.

The Social Skills Guidebook goes into detail about solving the three core areas that hold people back socially:

1. Mental barriers including shyness, social anxiety, and low self-confidence
2. Less developed conversation skills
3. A lack of friends and an unsatisfying social life

If you look at the people who are socially comfortable in your school or workplace and want what they have, know that you can achieve social success like theirs without losing yourself in the process. You can remain true to your personality and pursue your favorite interests while conquering the attitudes that hold you back, improving your conversation skills, and learning how to make friends. With practice, time, and patience, you can create the kind of social life you want for yourself.

The Social Skills Guidebook covers topics including:

• Changing counterproductive thinking that stands in the way of your social confidence
• Becoming comfortable with your social fears by facing them in a manageable way
• Navigating the different parts of a conversation
• Interacting in one-on-one and group discussions
• Learning how to listen to others and respond appropriately
• Identifying people's nonverbal cues and being aware of your own
• Finding potential friends and making plans with them
• Deepening your friendships
• Improving your social skills if you have Asperger's Syndrome

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2016, 2018 Chris MacLeod (P)2018 Chris MacLeod

Simple. Straight. And to the point!

I love how simple and clear this book is! It breaks all the simple but the not so simple steps down that are required to make new friends! he makes everything clear as day and simple to apply!

Insightful

The topics include a broad enough range of behaviors and feelings to assist most anybody who would have interest in picking up this title. I feel better prepared to find more books that touch on the topics that I identified with.

You don’t necessarily need to fit into any of the categories outlined either; this is a great resource if you are just interested in understanding your atypical friends a little better.

informative piece of work.

Good listen. I would definitely check back again for another round. I really like this book!

My social ineptness

I feel a breath of fresh air and resharpening of my social skills for personal and professional growth.

Very helpful and very thankful

I am very thankful for all the information given in this audiobook it had changed my social life and made me more confident. For me being social is a challenge, everything feels pre-calculated and it just doesn’t feel natural. Its stills feels like that but this audiobook had given me so many advices on how to improve my social life that even though I am scared, i am more than willing minded into putting all my fears aside to put everything in this audiobook into practice since its very important to me to let the people that I love to know that I am trying my hardest to be a better friend, a better family member, a better co-worker bc I honestly care more than what they think, I just don’t know how to socialize and show.
I show that I love them and care about them but by letters (bc I can express my self better in them) and by gifts but can’t seem to be able to show it more verbally and by socializing, etc. So, Again this author had given me hope and I want the author to know that It was very helpful and that I am very thankful for all the efforts put into this book.

great tricks to apply on social situation,

worth to read for so many times, provides insight on how to deal social situation very well

Best book for basic social interaction/dynamics

very good listen. I would highly recommend this book for shy and anxious people like myself who need to sharpen up our social skills.

chapter titles?

how do you sell a product so lazy incomplete it doesn't have basic thing like chapter names in audible?

Nice to hear it aloud

sometimes you just need to hear someone say 'youre not crazy' and get some examples/ideas on how to be less socially awkward. this book really helped validate and invalidate a lot of those 'am I crazy' moments.

only negative about the audio version is that the audible chapters don't line up with the actual book chapters. threw me off when I would try to pick up where I left off. as you can see it didn't effect my overall review but it should still be fixed.

Great Hands in Notes

Wonderful report on how to improve social skills book. This is necessary book for anymore who is shy, socially awkward, wanting to socialize but feeling unable too, etc. I recommend everyone regardless read this book.