Product Description
When a manager establishes a friendly yet productive working atmosphere, the benefits to the whole organization are substantial. The Art of Managing People provides practical strategies, guidelines and techniques for

* Developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees

* Understanding the differences between people, and behaving accordingly

* Assessing, and then improving, current working situations

* Creating trust between managers and employees.

Person-to-person skills are the key to developing an effective team of satisfied, energetic workers. Letting your workers express their own personalities and maximize their potentials will

* Reduce stress within the work force,

* Create a positive spirit throughout the company, and

* Increase the organization's productivity and profitability.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 9 reviews)

Too much like a pre-education college class

This book talks about interpersonal skills and personality styles in a textbook-like format. The content is the same as pre-education college classes. The book goes on and on about learning styles. The information is valuable if you are a complete donkey of a person (which some managers really are) and don't have a clue about how to relate to people. Yes, this book will be valuable to those who REALLY need it, but I say that if you are of average or above-average intelligence, have taken college psychology or pre-education/early childhood classes, and/or have had sales experience in your career, this book will be a big waste of time for you because you've already learned how to handle people.

June 11, 2007

Easy To Follow Concepts

The book features a few easy to follow classifications and concepts, and I especially like the positive messages for management. It is a quick read, perhaps sometimes a bit simplistic, but several valuable messages. For a little more in-depth approach tempered with some tougher management approaches, I would follow this up with Warriors, Workers, Whiners, & Weasels: Understanding and Using The Four Personality Types To Your Advantage
June 10, 2007

How to Be a More Effective Person and to Live a Better Life

For years I used to treat people in more or less a consistent way in my interpersonal interactions or in managing projects. After first reading this book about four years ago, this approach changed and I have now a much greater awareness of different personalities and how people are most comfortable. As a result I know I have become a better and more effective person in the work environment and also with with my family.

What is fairly unique about this book and what I like most is that it is simple, yet powerful. For example, just by looking at two measures, responsiveness (in the emotional sense) and assertiveness, one can figure out a lot about how to deal with and get the most out of people. Other interesting areas cover how different people learn and make decisions and how diverse personality types can work together to solve problems. Overall, there is a lot of very useful and effective advice in here.

To the authors - thank you for your great work! This has definitely made a very positive difference in my life.
May 22, 2006

a juvenile piece of tripe

This book is appropriate for grade-schoolers learning to work in groups/teams. The text offers little in terms of strategies, methods or techniques for managing people and instead focuses on identifying personality traits and working with personal space. A disappointment in all regards (It's also a very boring read).
October 16, 2003

Shelf Help

I purchased this book because in my job I encounter various personalities every day. Some of these personalities are something else and make work difficult for everyone. I wanted some ideas on what to do and how to help everyone involved with these difficult people. This book has offered some good ideas that I am willing to put into practice...who know where it could lead.
March 31, 2002

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