Social media is making the world smaller which I like, but seeing people with their faces constantly buried in LCD screens, even preferring to communicate with others through it rather than face to face communication is promoting shyness. With youth getting deft in writing their opinion rather than voicing them, it is making millennials less adept with facing each other real time and more crude in their non-verbal expressions.
If you are a millennial facing this problem, tanking in your own personal opinion about the impression you are creating about yourself to others, wishing you had better people skills–I mean no matter what laughing together in a group is way more fun than laughing at a screen–fear not, you will find 151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills a remedy.
Here is are some quick advice from the book on how to overcome shyness:
Learn to ask questions. That starts conversations.
As an assignment the book directs you to overcoming-shyness.com continues the exploration of shyness and how to overcome it.
Among the 151 chapters there is People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care, Believe that all people start with good intentions, Always look toward solutions, have reasonable expectations of yourself, Choose words carefully, Don't kill relationships with your behaviour, Wage peace in your relationships, Know your style and lots more. This 200 page book written by Robert E. Dittmer a faculty member with the Indiana University School of Journalism and Stephanie McFarland who is and adjunct professor in the same school of journalism is a gem that can come in handy in many different situations in life. Husband and wife, parents and children, teacher and student, boss and employer, boyfriend and girlfriend. It may be simply presented as just text but it can be a lifesaver. The books is available on Amazon. Click here or on the pictures above.
If you are a millennial facing this problem, tanking in your own personal opinion about the impression you are creating about yourself to others, wishing you had better people skills–I mean no matter what laughing together in a group is way more fun than laughing at a screen–fear not, you will find 151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills a remedy.
Here is are some quick advice from the book on how to overcome shyness:
Work on your listening and
communications skills.
Learn more about reading nonverbal communication, such as body language and facial expressions.
Let others take the lead in conversations, then jump in after the discussion has begun.
Observe others in environments that elicit shyness in you.
Learn to smile. It’s an ice-breaker.
Learn more about reading nonverbal communication, such as body language and facial expressions.
Let others take the lead in conversations, then jump in after the discussion has begun.
Observe others in environments that elicit shyness in you.
Learn to smile. It’s an ice-breaker.
As an assignment the book directs you to overcoming-shyness.com continues the exploration of shyness and how to overcome it.
Among the 151 chapters there is People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care, Believe that all people start with good intentions, Always look toward solutions, have reasonable expectations of yourself, Choose words carefully, Don't kill relationships with your behaviour, Wage peace in your relationships, Know your style and lots more. This 200 page book written by Robert E. Dittmer a faculty member with the Indiana University School of Journalism and Stephanie McFarland who is and adjunct professor in the same school of journalism is a gem that can come in handy in many different situations in life. Husband and wife, parents and children, teacher and student, boss and employer, boyfriend and girlfriend. It may be simply presented as just text but it can be a lifesaver. The books is available on Amazon. Click here or on the pictures above.
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