Positive Impacts

Discovering the keys to better interpersonal and communication skills

By Doug Hissong

What is the most crucial factor determining your success in both your professional and personal life? What are the keys to having positive impacts on others, getting things accomplished through others?

Interpersonal and communication skills!

Here’s a fun way to improve those skills. The focus is on anecdotes, stories, personal experiences, and analogies that illustrate important truths about our interactions with others. A fresh approach with fresh insights. Food for thought that tastes good, like a healthful dessert.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find.

Interpersonal Skills

A Greek sculptor gives us the key to getting the most out of people

Five demotivators in the work environment

What Ben Franklin and Charles Schwab say about criticism

The football game with a message for the world

Impacts of leadership/management styles attitudes

Four things kids need to see in their parents

 

Important lessons from:

·The boy washing the car

·The shoe shine offer

·The Snow White look-alike

·The pie on the driveway

·The father-son fishing trip

What I learned from some of my college dates:

 

 

 

·Carol -  building fences

 

·Kathy -  what we don’t say

 

If you’re a boss, you need to know about startup day at the new facility

 

If you’re not a boss, you need to know about the engine room