Psychology Social Skills How to Deal With Know It Alls There’s always that one person who seems to think they know just about everything. You may have encountered one in a social setting, family gatherings, or at your workplace. While it might be best to avoid being in the same room with them, sometimes they’re people you know personally. He Written by The Editors May 4, 2020May 4, 2020
Social Skills How to Deal With Stubborn People? Be it a child or an adult; their stubbornness can be infuriating at times. While a child can still be disciplined and taught to do better, dealing with a stubborn adult can be a lot more challenging especially when they’re stubborn with no reason other than pure selfishness. However, that may Written by Carmen Jacob January 17, 2020January 18, 2020
Social Skills How To Be More Social If You Are Introverted (25 Expert Tips) But humans are naturally sociable creatures and even introverts will crave some sort of social interaction with strangers once in a while. Here are a couple of tips to master being more social. Written by Carmen Jacob January 28, 2019February 22, 2020
Social Skills What Do You Wear to a Wake, and What to Wear to a Funeral? Have you ever had a hard time figuring out what to wear to a funeral and/or a wake? Should you go safe and just go for anything black? Should you wear something formal? Something sentimental, perhaps? To acknowledge those questions, we asked experts to enlighten us with some answers. Let’s hav Written by Carmen Jacob January 18, 2019January 19, 2020
Social Skills What to Do When Someone Hates You for No Reason? Even the most pleasant politically correct person will undoubtedly run into some who just don’t like them without any obvious reason. There is the question of how to handle this irrational judgment. Written by Carmen Jacob January 8, 2019January 20, 2020
Social Skills How to Not Be Socially Awkward? Being socially awkward is all relative, which means that a lot of it comes from within you. So, in order to behave less awkwardly, try to get out of your own head. Keep in mind that in reality, people are not focusing on you as much as you expect, so don’t feel self-conscious about your insecuriti Written by Carmen Jacob December 27, 2018January 20, 2020
Social Skills How Social Media Affects Communication Skills? Humans are social creatures. Social media has caused a complete 180 in how we communicate with each other. It is a huge step forward for humanity. Written by Carmen Jacob December 20, 2018January 19, 2020
Social Skills Why Are People Selfish? Humans are naturally self-fulfilling, self-pleasure-seeking individuals – we want what is in our best interest. Selfishness is defined as seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others. Written by Carmen Jacob December 14, 2018February 14, 2020
Social Skills How to Get Rid of Social Anxiety? Social anxiety can be extremely stressful for those who suffer from this mental health issue. It tends to creep up in a lot of different situations: from the work environment to the social aspect of life, it is anywhere and always ready to attack. Written by Carmen Jacob December 7, 2018January 19, 2020
Social Skills How to Express Your Emotions [the Ultimate Guide] Long before we can even speak, we experience emotions; we cry, we laugh, we jump with surprise or gasp in fear. Emotions are meant to be experienced and not suppressed. Emotions tell us how we respond to something and they are very important to our psychological well-being. Written by Carmen Jacob December 6, 2018January 16, 2020
Social Skills How to Improve Your Social Skills? Human beings are sociable beings. Unfortunately, not everyone is good at socializing. To build social skills, people have to be willing to take chances and recognize that disappointment and failures are part of the process of building social skills. Written by Carmen Jacob November 26, 2018February 22, 2020
Social Skills Why are Social Skills Important? Social skills affect our everyday actions – from a simple hello to forging lasting relationships. Hence, we asked 7 experts “Why are social skills important?” See their top insights below! Margaret Arsenault Co-founder and Executive Director, Face2Face Youth Group Inc. Social skill Written by Carmen Jacob October 31, 2018February 20, 2020
Social Skills How to Be Funny? (with Examples) In this article, you’ll discover how to be funny so that you win friends and loosen up enemies. I love my tumble dryer! I love it that much that I’m telling about it to everyone that wants to listen…or not. I’m telling you about it right now because you ought to know what a splendid ... Written by Carmen Jacob March 5, 2018January 29, 2019
Relationships Social Skills How to Build a Personal and Family Support System What is a personal support system and how to build it? The need for a support system is not only to have a soft place to fall or who to ask for help but also, being connected to other people is giving us the opportunity to be useful, to put our skills and knowledge to ... Read more Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016October 12, 2019
Social Skills Success How to Be (more) Assertive. Assertiveness Skills Training What is assertiveness? Assertiveness is putting your foot down; it is knowing to ask for what you want, desire and need while considering the wants, desires and needs of others at the same time. Assertiveness requires from you to be: Self-confident, Decisive, Self-assured, Forthright, Firm, And, als Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016January 29, 2019
Success Social Skills 3 Secrets to Improve Your Influence Skills The fourth core interpersonal skill: Influence Why is influence a significant interpersonal skill? Because we are influencing each other all the time. Most times, though we don’t even realize that we are doing it, and sometimes with devastating unintended consequences. Improve your interpersonal s Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016January 29, 2019
Relationships Social Skills Effective Communication: How to Improve Your Communication Skills What is communication? Communication is the process of exchanging information, ideas, feelings, emotions, and thoughts. How are we communicating? Through speech, behavior, body language, writing, attitude and other signals. You know how effective or positive your communication is by the feedback and Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016April 21, 2019
Social Skills Relationships Success Negotiation Strategies and Conflict Resolution Skills Negotiation is placing the opinions, the desires and the needs of all the parties involved side by side not face to face because all the parties have to be visible, heard and considered. You are great in some areas and less great in others, therefore, start your negotiation by knowing what you’re Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016April 21, 2019
Personal Transformation Social Skills Emotional Intelligence: What is it & How to Improve Yours? Where were you and what were you doing on July 27th, 2015? If nothing significant for you happened on this date, chances are you don’t remember absolutely anything about that day. Do you? Where were you and what were you doing on September 11th, 2001? (9/11) If you were over 14 years of age at ... Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016June 26, 2019
Relationships Social Skills What are Interpersonal Skills & How to Improve Them The human individual evolved from having around and interacting with, on average, 150 people – his/hers tribe (village), to interact and having around thousands of individuals. For this reason, the expression “survival of the fittest” has now a new meaning. The fittest is not any longer th Written by Carmen Jacob April 11, 2016January 29, 2019
