Get the Life You Want!: 101 Ways to Use Your Social IQ - Softcover

Downing-Orr, Dr. Kristina

 
9780722539910: Get the Life You Want!: 101 Ways to Use Your Social IQ
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0722539916 ISBN 13: 9780722539910
Verlag: Thorsons, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

We’ve all heard of emotional intelligence – now find out about how to use your social IQ to make friends, influence people and succeed in life

The book is aimed at young, professional men and women who want to be successful. While Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence showed us that someone’s ability to understand and interpret emotions is a greater barometer of success than their native intelligence, this book which introduces Social IQ shows us that interpreting emotions is only part of the story: people also have to know how to act on them.

The book gives you 100 strategies to help you to find the right career and then to succeed in it to find happiness and wealth. Getting influential people on our side is vital for success and to know what you want is the first step. The book covers:

body language and behaviour in interviews and presentations and successful phone manner
• your style of clothes and what to wear when
• personal PR and making friends
• learning ways to stand out from the crowd
• developing socio-perceptive skills, including how to build charisma, self-awareness and empathy
which are the foundation of persuasive communication and social intelligence
• the power of reciprocation: if you scratch my back…

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Kristina Downing-Orr is an American clinical psychologist living in the UK. She works in medical practice as well as having her own personal development company, Corporate Solutions, advising business and industry on creativity, problem-solving, decision-making, presentation, stress-management and assertiveness. She is a radio and TV broadcaster, and writes regular features for ‘The Guardian.’

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'Have you ever noticed that some people seem to succeed magically at everything they do? All a matter of luck? NO!'
You too can get the breaks in life and this book shows you how.
Kristina Downing-Orr, clinical psychologist and personal development coach, shows you the two skills you can develop to build your Social Intelligence – or Social IQ. The first skill involves learning to recognise and build your own talents and creativity to form goals you'd like to achieve. The second gives you the ability to develop relationships with people who can help you get there.

• 'Know what to say and when to say it
• Learn how to listen and how to read people
• Choose a career that suits your personality
• Build friendships with confidence
• Dress for success
• Find out what might be holding you back'

There are many kinds of intelligence. This book shows you how to develop the most important kind – 'your Social IQ' – to change your life for the better.

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Verlag
Thorsons
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0722539916
ISBN 13 
9780722539910
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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