如何提升你的社会技能

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原文: How to Improve Your Social Skills

Over the last 11 months I have written a whole bunch of articles on how to improve one of the most valuable skill sets; your social skills.

Some of you that have read this blog from the beginning might have already read these articles.

But since a lot of new readers have joined throughout this year I thought I´d collect and bring up the articles again in case you´ve missed some of them. I hope that they will provide you with at least a few useful tips.

And that you will give yourself a break.

Take it easy. Don´t beat yourself up if you at first fail when trying to improve a skill. And don´t try to improve everything at once. Focus on one or a few things for a month and try to work on them in your day to day life. If you fail, that’s ok and normal. Just brush yourself off and try again.

Want better results? Take more action.

The most important part of improving your social skills is just to take more chances, show up at more social functions and to interact more with people. So a good place to start might be with these three articles:

  • 7 Ways to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone and Live a More Exciting Life
    ”If you want to improve your life you’ll sooner or later need to step out of that zone. Because it’s there you’ll find all those new and exciting experiences. Where you’ll find freedom from boredom.”
  • Top 24 Tips for Making Your Self-Confidence Soar
    ”Although we may not want to admit it publicly I think a lot of us feel like we could use an improvement in self confidence. Fortunately there are better advice out there than the often exclaimed “Just be more confident, man!” or “Have another beer!”.”
  • 5 Life-Changing Keys to Overcoming Your Fear
    ”What is stopping you from getting what you want in life? Your friends? Your family? A sense that failure – or success – might change your life and that feeling uncomfortable? A sense that the people around you might disapprove of you aiming for what you want, of you succeeding or failing.”
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Body language is a BIG part.

I think it’s pretty important to note early on that what you say is only 7 percent of communication. Body language is 55 percent and voice tonality 38 percent.

So if you are not getting the results you’d like, if something in general feels off about your people skills then it might have little to do with what words you are using. So, say that you’d like to improve your body language since it´s such a huge part of communication. Where do you go?

  • 6 Reasons to Improve Your Body Language
    ”When we’re in school or at work, we’re taught to improve our words. We learn to improve our language and words to impress. We learn to construct clever chains of words to gain an upper hand and to communicate more clearly. But when we grow up we learn very little beyond improving our words.”
  • 18 Ways to Improve Your Body Language
    ”Here is just a few of many pointers on how to improve your body language. Improving your body language can make a big difference in your people skills, attractiveness and general mood.”

Talk, talk, talk.

Now, on to conversations. Here are six articles with both broad pointers and smaller, specific tips:

  • How to Make a Great Impression
    ”First impressions can be quite important. Everyone stereotypes everyone on first impression, even if we are reluctant to do it. We all get a first impression of a new person that creates a mental image of his or her personality in our minds. That image of you often lasts and can affect the relationship that follows.”
  • Five Awesome and Five Awful Conversation Topics
    ”“So, what should I talk about?” When it comes to conversations I think this is one question we have asked both others and ourselves many, many times. Often in our heads, when already in a conversation, with an awkward silence looming and while trying to scramble for something to say.”
  • Do You Make These 10 Mistakes in a Conversation?
    ”Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a while to change the conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout your life, but it is very possible. To not make this article longer than necessary let’s just skip right to some common mistakes many of us have made in conversations. And a couple of solutions.”
  • 5 Conversational Mistakes that Can Make You Look Dumb
    “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
    - Dorothy Nevill
  • One Easy Way to Remember Someone’s Name
    ”I have a pretty good memory for faces. I can remember them for years after just meeting them once or twice. Names are a whole different thing though. I just can’t remember them. When I hear them they just seem flow into one ear and flap away to freedom from the other one.”
  • Focus Outward to Win Friends and Improve your People Skills
    ”One common mistake in conversations of any kind is to turn your focus the wrong way. You (and I) may often focus too much on ourselves while at a party, at work, at school, online or in just about any setting instead of shifting your focus outward, toward the person we are talking with. Why do we do that?”

On Criticism.

Criticism is often a sore spot in communication that creates a lot of misunderstandings and can become hurtful (even if it was not intended to be). I’ve written two articles on this topic. One about giving criticism and one about receiving it.

  • One Easy Way to Give More Effective Criticism
    ”It was back at the university that I first came across this technique for improving the way you criticise. Whenever we had done an exercise in writing, editing or something like that we used this method.”
  • How to Handle Criticism and get Something Good Out of It
    ”Receiving criticism isn’t always fun. However there are ways to handle it in a less hurtful way and – sometimes - get something good out of it. Here are a few pointers I have found useful when dealing with criticism.”

What all those other people said about communication and relationships.

Finally, there are quite a few small collections with quotes from various wise and clever people in the archives of this blog. At least six of these collections are relevant - in some way or another - when you want to improve your social skills and relationships.

  • 22 Inspirational Quotes on Fear
    ”When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson”
  • 10 Inspirational Quotes on Forgiveness
    When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
    - Catherine Ponder”
  • 17 Inspirational Quotes on People Skills
    ”You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one.
    - Dale Carnegie”
  • 10 Inspirational Quotes on Relationships
    ”Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
    - Anthony Robbins”
  • 25 Great Quotes on Leadership
    ”To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
    - Lao-Tsu”
  • 9 Great Quotes on Criticism
    ”Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
    - Emmet Fox”

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译文: 如何提升你的社会技能

        在过去的11个月里我写了整整一摞的书,内容为怎样提高最为宝贵的技能之一:你的社会技能。

        一直浏览我博客的人可能已经看过这些文章了。

       不过今年有越来越多的新读者参与进来,那么我想我得将文章重新整理一遍那样读者就不会错过一些文章。我希望你们能从中获取至少一点有用的建议。

       并且你们可以趁此休息一下,放轻松。当你试着提高一项技能时即使第一次失败了,不要责怪自己。不要试图一蹴而就。用一个月的时间专注于一件或者几件事, 并且要在日常生活中加以练习。如果失败了,没关系,那很正常。别太在意,再试一次!

       想得到更好的结果吗?那就采取更多的行动吧!

       提高你的社会技能最重要的部分就是力争更多机会,在更多的社会场合展现自己,与更多的人相互交流。以下这三篇文章可能是个好的开始:

  • 7法子教你打破你的舒适区,让生活更有激情

           “如果你想改善你的生活,那么迟早你是要跳出以前的模式。因为那样你会发现你的生活充满了

           新鲜与活力,同样你将发现无聊之外的自由天空。”

  • 让你自信心飙升的24条秘诀

            “尽管我们可能不愿意当众承认,但是我相信我们大部分人都希望自信心可以得到提高。幸运的是,与“勇敢点吧,男子汉!”或者“再来一次!”诸如此类的话相比还有更好的建议来增强自信。

 

  • 5种改变生活的方法让你克服恐惧

是什么让你止步于对生活的渴望?你的朋友?你的家庭?一种挫败或成功的感觉可能改变你的生活,让你感觉很不舒服?还是周遭的人对你所想持反对意见,对你的成功或失败漠不关心?

肢体语言很重要。

我认为很有必要早些说明一个事实,那就是你的语言只占人际交流中的7%。肢体语言占到55%而音色占38%

所以如果你并没有达到你预期的效果,如果有人认为你的人际交往技能让人不舒服,那么很有可能与你所使用的言词无太大关系。所以,你最好提高你的肢体语言能力因为在人际交往中它的确很重要。你接下来看那些文章呢?

  • 需提高你的肢体语言能力的六大理由

“在我们上学或者工作时,我们要提高我们的文字运用能力。我们学着改善是为了给他人留有好印象。我们巧妙地组织语言结构为的是清楚表达并且在人际交流中处于上风。但是随着我们渐渐长大,除了提高我们的文字能力外,我们学的实在太少。”

  • 提高肢体语言能力的十八种方法

“这里仅仅列了一些人的观点,关于如何提高肢体语言能力。提高了肢体语言能力将大大提高你的人际交往技能,使你的魅力指数与心情大不一样。”

谈话谈话,还是谈话

现在说到交谈,这里有的文章分别指出一些观点和特别的小建议:

  • 怎样给人以深刻印象

“第一印象确实很重要。人都会以第一印象判断一个人,即便我们不愿意这样做。我们对陌生人都会产生第一印象,而我们的脑海中就会出现他(她)的个人形象。这个形象通常会持续很久并且影响着你们之后的关系。”

  • 令人感到害怕的五大会谈话题

“‘那么,我该谈些什么呢?’每当谈话时间,我想这个问题我们一定问过自己问过他人很多很多次了。这个问题时常在脑海回转,当身处谈话之中却被可怕的沉默笼罩而我们必须苦思冥想寻找谈话主题。”

  • 在谈话中你会犯如下的10个错误吗?

“你能提高你的谈话技能吗?当然。改变对你来说已经根深蒂固的谈话习惯可能只需一会儿,而且这是极有可能做到的。不必把这篇文章写的太长,我们直奔主题看看我们在谈话中的常见错误。还有一些解决方法。”

  • 让你看起来很愚蠢的5中谈话错误

正真的谈话艺术不是在正确的地点说出正确的事情,而是在诱使你说出不该说的事情的时候不说出来。”

  • 一个简单的法子教你记住他人的名字

“我的认人相貌的记性很好。只见过他们一、两次我就能记住他们的样貌并维持较长时间。名字却完全不一样了,我记不住。听过一次它们就只能从一只耳朵进一只耳朵出了。”

  • 关注他人以赢得朋友的关注,以此提高你的人际交往技能

“所有交谈中都有的一个共同错误就是你的侧重点有误。在派对上、工作中、学校里或者其他任何场合,你我都可能太过注重自己,而我们应该更关注自己以外的事物,包括正在与我们谈话的那个人。我们为什么要这样做呢?”

关于批评

在交流中批评通常是会引人生气,因为那会导致误会和伤害(即便批评者的本意并非如此)。关于这个问题我写了两篇文章。一篇关于提出批评,另一篇则是接受批评。

  • 一个简单的法子教你提出有价值的意见

“我第一次接触如何提高你的批评方式这一技能,要追溯到大学时期了。每当我们有写作、编辑或类似的练习时就得用到这个方法了。”

  • 如何应对批评并从中采纳好的意见

“接受批评并不是一件简单事。当然有不少方法教你接受批评且避免受伤害——而且有时候能从中获得一些有益的意见,这里是一些我找到的应对法子。”

关于交流与人际关系,其他人怎么看

最后,在博客存档里我找了些智慧人士对此的看法。当你想要提高你的社会技能和人际关系时,这里至少有6条信息是有用的——某种程度上而言。

  • 22句战胜恐惧的励志名言

“当一个有意志的青年走向一个盛气凌人的恶霸并能够勇敢的抓住他的胡子,他会惊奇的发现那个人会后退,原来他只能吓跑那些胆小鬼。

——拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

  • 10句关于原谅的励志名言

“如果你对一个人有反感,那么你必然在情感上对他有种死结,比钢铁还要结识。只有原谅他人是打开死结获得心灵自由的唯一办法。

——凯瑟琳·庞德

  • 17句关于人际技能的名言

“如果你真正对他人感兴趣,那么你在两个月内能结交许多朋友。而如果你试图让别人对你感兴趣,恐怕你得花上两年时间。这也是结交朋友的另一种方法。 

——戴尔·卡耐基

  • 关于建立关系的励志名言

“建立人际关系中最大的挑战来自于这一事实,很多人想利用关系得到些什么:他们试图找到能使他们感觉良好的人。现实中,维持关系的唯一方法就是将你们的关系视作一个你愿意去付出而不是去索取的地方。

——安东尼·罗宾斯

  • 25条关于领导力的名言

领导人们,就要和他们一同行走,对于最好的领导者,人们不会在意他们的存在。次好的领导,人们会尊敬和赞美他们。第三位的,人们畏惧他们;再下一位的,人们讨厌他们。当最好的领导工作完成后,人们会说,‘那是我们共同的成绩!’”

——老子

——埃米特·福克斯