People Skills Magic de Frank F. Loomis III

People Skills Magic

Frank F. Loomis III

People Skills Magic

This book can change lives for the better by teaching persons how best to use crucial people skills in their dealings with fellow human beings. And it does a more thorough and complete job of this than does Dale Carnegie's 1936 wonderful classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

It does, because of its far greater scope or coverage. It doesnt just anecdotally tell how to use a few key people skills. Rather it teaches hundreds of ways to use all kinds of them. For example, the books table of contents contains some 250 topics. They cover just about every situation we all encounter in interrelating with other people in our lives. This means family, friends, romantic partners, spouses, co-workers, bosses, customers, clients, just about anyone we deal with whether regularly, occasionally or just once.

It is the most in-depth book ever written on people skills.

And to demonstrate how best to handle touchy, as well as routine matters that can be mishandled, the author uses all kinds of down-to-earth sketches involving colorful characters and dialogue. Youll find yourself readily identifying with the situations they portray.

Youll likely react by saying to yourself things like: ¨Hey, that happened to me last week when . . . By golly, Joe did that to me at the Christmas party . . . That jerk at the mart pulls that baloney every time I call . . . Betty is one of those . . . Oh my gosh, I do that all the time. I gotta stop it.¨

Now, underpinning all the instructive "how-tos" and "how-nots" in this work, are bedrock people skills principles, premised on common sense and the authors vast experiences. And emphasizing his sincerity and earnestness, at times to illustrate his points and first hand knowledge, he humbly tells about his blunders, humiliations, and frustrations.

And most importantly, he explains things in a well organized, fascinatingly interesting manner. Add to that, he uses no technical "mumbo-jumbo," the malarkey found in so many self-help books, which makes them so boring they put us to sleep. This is why many of us seldom get half through them.

In sharp contrast, this book is riveting and conversationally informal. It's almost like the author, a sage elder, is sitting at your kitchen table, personally chatting with you over a cup of coffee and nibbling cookies.

All in all, quite pointedly and effectively this book shows and tells what fabulous results can evolve from properly using people skills in dealing with people in life.

And if you train and discipline yourself to do the things this wise person says, not just now and then, but consistently, you will be absolutely astounded as to how much better your life will become.

That said, its hard to imagine anyone, who to some degree could not benefit from reading and following what this book teaches: basic principles of fairness, considerateness, and decency in interrelating with other human beings.

If only more of us would practice these things, the world would be a better place to live.

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Notă biografică

Frank F. Loomis III, J.D. Attorney Loomis, is an ex-corporate executive and a semi-retired trial and appellate lawyer. He has been a member of the state bars of Michigan and Indiana, and currently is licensed in Texas. Also, he is privileged and honored to be a member of the bar of the most revered court in the world, the United States Supreme Court. His legal experience runs the gamut from civil and murder trials to appeals and or petitions to the Michigan Supreme Court, Indiana Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. And in the business world, he has spent some twenty-nine years running three corporations. In doing so, he has had to interrelate with all kinds of people. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University. And he received his law degree from the University of Notre Dame. But his wisdom about the role of people skills in interrelating with people is not based on academic considerations. Rather, it comes from years of dealing with people in business, legal, and family worlds. Thus, he doesn't write and teach like he's in front of a blackboard lecturing about complex theories. That's the approach that many writers take in this area. Often their backgrounds are limited to classrooms or consultation rooms. As a result, their works are technical mumbo jumbo in stilted language that bores readers. That makes it hard to even finish such books, much less benefit from them. In contrast, Attorney Loomis writes in a way that you don't have to be an academic to understand. He writes in a conversationally, as if he's in your kitchen talking to you over a cup of coffee or tea. The things he suggests are practical, easy to grasp, and apply. And he is eminently qualified to help people in this area. This is because his expertise is the best type of all, practical experience in dealing with thousands of people. He has learned what he teaches the hard way, by trial and error, making mistakes and paying the consequences. His special knowledge stems from his relations with the many employees and co-workers with whom he has been associated. He was in sales for many years. In one year, he was number one in sales out of 1500 salespersons across the USA and Canada. He has hired and trained hundreds of salespersons. And his people-skills also evolve from his contacts with clients, jurors, judges, attorneys, witnesses, legislators, business associates, and the seven children that he has raised. Thus, his vast background in real world settings has given him a grass-roots view of the importance of people skills in relationships. Again, his teachings are not abstract theories learned from textbooks. Rather, they are real-world suggestions applicable to everyday situations. They can help just about anyone, regardless of educational level. So, that's Attorney Loomis' background. And you can see why it makes him uniquely qualified to write about this vitally important subject that so critically affects persons¿ lives.