151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills

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Practice Face-to-Face Communication

From managing day-to-day relationships to resolving conflict and solving problems, face-to-face communication is the granddaddy of them all.

Assignment

Make it a point this week to have your most crucial conversations face to face.

For decades, communication experts have been studying the most effective forms of communication, and face-to-face wins out again and again. You just get more done when you meet face to face with people. For one thing, we’re usually all a little nicer to each other face to face, and we’re all a little more relaxed. That nurtures better communication, for day-to-day interactions and for those times when situations are tense (see Idea 114).

Epilogue

There is no better form of ...