{"id":46,"date":"2004-07-25T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-10-27T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:19:00","slug":"people-skills-how-to-assert-yourself-listen-to-others-and-resolve-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2004\/07\/25\/people-skills-how-to-assert-yourself-listen-to-others-and-resolve-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I debated a little on whether or not this title belongs in the \u201cmust read\u201d category.\u00a0 The explanations of the difference between submissive, assertive and aggressive behaviors are very enlightening.\u00a0 The clincher for me is one of the early chapters which describes road blocks.\u00a0 Road blocks are simple statements that have the effect of ending conversation, and thereby communication.\u00a0 Usually this is intentional, but not always.\u00a0 Positive statements can be road blocks \u2013 clever politicians know how to use them this way! \u00a0The material otherwise aligns with the two Leadership Development courses I have taken:\u00a0<i>Coaching for Performance and Results<\/i> and<i> Effective Communication<\/i>.\u00a0 I would recommend taking the former class, then reading this book as a follow-up some time latter.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I debated a little on whether or not this title belongs in the \u201cmust read\u201d category.\u00a0 The explanations of the difference between submissive, assertive and aggressive behaviors are very enlightening.\u00a0 The clincher for me is one of the early chapters which describes road blocks.\u00a0 Road blocks are simple statements that have the effect of ending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2004\/07\/25\/people-skills-how-to-assert-yourself-listen-to-others-and-resolve-conflicts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mustread","category-personal","tag-robert-bolton"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}