All Kinds of People

Having good people skills is also essential to being a good leader. If you have aspirations to become a leader you will need to work on honing your people skills. That doesn’t mean schmoozing and talking about yourself to others. People skills really means interacting with people and making sure you can meet their needs.

Here are three things you can do to improve your people skills.

• Talk to people – Don’t tell them about yourself, instead ask them about what they like to do and what they enjoy. The most important part of people skills is getting to know the person not letting them hear you ramble on and on.
• Network – Find groups to join and network. Work on introducing yourself and finding out about those in the group. When networking ask how you can help them to be successful. Getting to know them will help you potentially meet their needs.
• Be yourself – Never try to be someone you aren’t people will see right through you if you try to feign sincerity. Be sincere in your presentation and interaction with others. Ultimately be yourself, use humor when necessary and appropriate and be serious if it calls for it.

Follow these three things when interacting with others and your people skills will improve. Also improving will be your people base. You will find yourself with many more connections and positive connections at that. Go out and improve those people skills.