8 Habits For Your Life

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ight habits, or skills if you want, you should consider to improve your human relationships, they’re not part of the latest business fad or something like that, these skills don’t go out of style or out of date, whether in business or in your personal life.

Today is friday here in Santiago, Chile, and we give so much emotional meaning to every friday since is the end of the work week and of course the start for the weekend.

I see the opportunity to put them to work right on the weekend, and when you return back to work on monday you might as well put them at work in every type of relationship you have there, be it marketing or selling to clients, providing customer support before or after the sale, working with and negotiating with vendors or your support team.

Leaders of every level in the corporate ladder and in every industry have practiced at least some of these skills. As the leader of your team, check them all and consider how well you and everyone on your team practice them. Encouraging their use just might smooth some ruffled feathers or diffuse a tense situation.

1. SPEAK TO PEOPLE There is nothing like a cheerful word of greeting. To really connect, look them in the eye as you speak.

2. SMILE AT PEOPLE It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile. They can hear the difference in your voice – even over the phone.

3. CALL PEOPLE BY NAME <-- This is a Must for Me.

The sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of his/her own name. Be sure you say it correctly. Say it often.

4. BE FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL <-- I know it's hard sometimes but you have to do it.

To have friends and build relationships, be a friend first.

5. BE GENUINELY INTERESTED IN PEOPLE <-- You can do it, just give it a try.

You can like almost everybody if you try. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Be sure they know how much you care.

6. BE GENEROUS WITH PRAISE Praise publicly, correct privately. Everyone wins this way.

7. BE CONSIDERATE of the feelings of others. There are usually three sides to a controversy: yours, the other person's, and the right side. Keep ego and emotions in check.

8. HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR Don't take yourself too seriously. When you add lots of patience, and humility, you will have a recipe for enduring success.

Do you think these are soft skills you can brush aside as non-critical? Think again. In this Conceptual Age, a deeper understanding of the subtleties of human interactions becomes not only important but imperative.

Remember Be Alert, Be A Leader :)

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5 comments

1 Francis N Maithya, Nairobi { 08.28.09 at 8:32 am }

Well abridged and to the point! Every point is real, and with all of them in exercise and good follow up, living this life will be eased.
Interacting with people and sharing our feelings is a one ticket to lively life.
And of course, the way we ACT is a priority.

2 Saheed Akinbola { 08.28.09 at 9:26 am }

These are wonderful point though, but I have little reservations on two of them not because they are not relevant anyway.
– Be friendly and helpful: I am equally an advocate of this but from experience people take advantage of this and assume the person in question is a week fellow.
– It’s equally very nice to be genuine interested in people. My concern is that some people are naturally snubs, how do we handle such.
In summary, I love the whole content of the article. God bless

3 Manimegalai { 08.29.09 at 2:33 am }

Everyline is acceptable if we practise this periodically we can attract the crowd.

4 Krushna Rajyaguru { 09.02.09 at 5:35 am }

this all the points are very usefull to chage the mode of the life. Using this all the point one can be very famous very favourite person.

5 mwalimu { 09.17.09 at 2:19 am }

It’s unbelievable the 8 point’s sum up very fundmental aspect of life in dealling with other people,they’ve done wonders in my life.

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