Just do it...

It's easy to complain about being given a task to do or being told to do something differently from what we have done. We are inherently critical of how others want to do things and only see things in our perspective. It is also in our inherent nature to take short cuts and see things for ourselves rather than others. Sometimes, a little pushing from others may spur us to improve or strive for better quality.


As an employee, have a just do it attitude can help us from being unnecessarily argumentative. Unless we have better advice or opinion to add to the task, it is better not advisable to work with our mouths and avoid work that can benefit and improve the tasks


Just as how we want more from others, the supervisors also have a task to want more from us. If we can help the situation by going to just do it, then just do it. Action talks too.

Going the extra mile...

Be humble. Let people know your limitations. They may be more forgiving then. (I got no car)


If the other party is insecure and worry, explain the situation step-by-step. (I trust you. I sent you the money. You should trust me too.)


If someone distrust you for doing less, then go the extra mile and done what they did not expect you to do to help them.

If I were in your shoes....

Get someone to negotiate for you...

It sometimes is not easy to negotiate for oneself, because one is so desperate for getting that something. Get someone to negotiate for you... 

(1) Someone to say what you want to say 
(2) Quote someone who had said something for you

My top 20 picks on Communication Books

My top 20 picks for best communication books. You can buy these books online. My number one pick is an ebook. The rest are physical books that you can find in the bookshops or buy online at Amazon. I will be listing my top picks here, and later individually talk about the reasons why I choose these books in other blog posts.

My top twenty picks: (Click on the links to buy online at Amazon. Amazon offers the best deals and discounts.)


(1) How to Talk Your Way to the Top @ Work, in Business and in Life (Click Here)

(2) How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking (Click Here)

(3) How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (Click Here)

(4) The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions [Paperback] (Click Here)

(5) How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients (Click Here)

(6) Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships (Click Here)

(7) Jack: Straight from the Gut [Paperback] (Click Here)

(8) Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself [Bargain Price] [Paperback] (Click Here)

 

 

More to come....

Are you a "wow wow" person....?

At work, people may not accept a colorful person. If you can stick out like a sore thumb and carry yourself well to ward of the negative responses, then it is okay. But as a general rule of thumb, it doesn't go down well to being too colorful.

Why can't you find these great books in your local book store? Why buy online

The physical book reaching out to others has limitation in distribution because the success depends solely on how the bookstores and distributors are willing to market the book. With thousands and thousands of books coming into the book market, the book stores and distributors are often caught up in the moment by the latest books coming on board. Older books (even if it's a year old) are being shelved because of shelf space limitations. But, some of these older books are great books. Or, the book shop is so huge and stocked with so many thousands of books, it becomes over-whelming to choose a good book to invest in. We have limited time to invest our precious time to indulge into the right book. You don't want to spend some 3 hours reading a pathetic book and then decide that was a bad investment. Not only money goes out the door, but precious limited time also goes out the door. So, we have listed our top picks for communication books here. These are printed physical books that you can buy online. There's one e-book that we recommend is "How to talk Your Way to the Top @ Work, in Business and in Life". Visit www.how2talkeffectively.com

More expensive to less expensive...

A skilful and experienced insurance consultant will show you an expensive policy first, then show you the next one that is less expensive. When you see the expensive policy you might flip because of the high price budget item. Then, to your relief, you see the next policy with a price within budget. You think, you can afford that because comparatively it is cheaper and affordable. Because there's comparison, so you can appreciate the difference and cheaper in pricing.

Just as a salesman selling you furniture. If you visit the furniture store, he keeps taking you to the same furniture at cheap prices and ask you to buy because that's within your budget, you do not feel any difference, you just see the same annoying cheap furnitures whenever you visit. However, if the salesman takes you to the expensive corner for expensive furnitures, and then take you to the cheaper section, you might sense the difference in pricing and start to calculate how much you save if you go for the cheaper models. 

Well..it may or may not work for some people, but the importance is to create a comparison between the expensive and less expensive, or the good and the worse. So, that people think they are getting a bargain. This is not just in selling a service or furniture or products. If you want to know how to sell yourself up to the top, you may want to check out the communication books at www.how2talkeffectively.com

Anger...used cautiously can tame some people...

People like to step over the weak. Sometimes anger managed well can fend off the bullies who pick on the weak. Being angry and reacting to something unfair may prevent future repetition. But, use your anger wisely, so that you are not ostracized.

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Make a grunt as if to say, "If you don't get it now, you'll be a loser." Then say, "You mean you don't know about the big benefits? Everyone knows already"

When people question why you do things when you are just doing the normal run of the mill things, like they are nosy or super-imposing and you are annoyed, then tell them what they are missing if they don't do the same as you are doing. It will worry them and make them run for the money (with their mouth) for their unwanted curiosity, because they now have to quickly sprint to find out (or beat themselves) for what they have been missing for doing nothing.

Yes, sometimes a grunt and a horrified facial expression speaks more than a thousand words. 

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