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The Hard Truth About Soft Skills: Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner |  | Author: Peggy Klaus
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0061284149
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
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ASIN: 0061284149
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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What's the hard truth? Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career. Master your soft skills and really get ahead at work! Fortune 500 coach Peggy Klaus encounters individuals every day who excel at their jobs but aren't getting where they want to go. It's rarely a shortfall in technical expertise that limits their careers, but rather a shortcoming in their social, communication, and self-management behaviors. In The Hard Truth About Soft Skills Klaus delivers practical tools and techniques for mastering soft skills across the career spectrum. She shows how to: - manage your workload
- handle the critics
- develop and promote your personal brand
- navigate office politics
- lead the troops
- and much more!
Klaus reveals why soft skills are often ignored, while bringing their importance to life in her trademark style—straightforward, humorous, and motivating. Perfect for readers at all professional stages—from those who are just starting out to seasoned executives—this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take his or her career to the next level.
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 Soft Skills in My Real World March 17, 2008
NSM (East Coast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As someone who has read many self help books and taken a long look about improving relationships in my own workplace (Aa Montessori School), I have to say that Klaus' latest book has spoken to everything that I have experienced in the past 30 years. Where was Klaus' book 30 years ago when I begun my career. I found this book to be very inspirational and it helped me better understand the great need to even help my own employees (teachers) develop their special soft skills in our Montessori School, as well as work on my own skills.
This book is a must for anyone feeling stuck at his/her workplace. Klaus' book on how to look at new behaviors; which encompasses personal social awareness, problem solving skills, critical thinking, self control and many other positive actions. Everyone learns how to do the skills in their job but no one has ever captured the importance of balancing skills with personal traits, attitude, confidence and risk taking. There is no substitute for real world experience; Klaus knows how to capture all levels of awareness to help everyone have a brilliant career.
Exactly what the title says June 9, 2008
Kelly Davies
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is spot on about being the "hard truth" about soft skills. We can often get caught up in what we think is "fair", what companies "should" do and how people "should" behave and all of those things are honestly irrelevant. It is not until people are ready to face the hard truths that they are able to make decisions about their willingness to make changes to their work styles that will impact their career track.
Great Book! (for entry -level and mature workers) June 25, 2008
J. L. Julion (Chicago)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book explained in detail, how to survive in the workplace. It has many examples on how to follow the unwritten rules (usually gained from many years in the work environment). I plan to purchase books for my employees and other young adults entering the workforce
I wish this had been a college graduation present 20 years ago. March 22, 2008
D. L. Meyer (Guilford, CT)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
Peggy Klaus has an uncanny ability to lead us toward dissecting our shortcomings and self-destructive behaviors. Like the best of life coaches, she is benevolent and practical in analyzing workplace situations and suggesting behavioral strategies. This book will benefit everyone from the CEO, to the manager, to support staff, to teachers, to shop owners, to freelancers, etc... as it is really about interrelating even away from the office. I came away from this book with a list of easily assimilated action steps to incorporate into my working relationships. Klaus' use of case studies and alternate scripts makes this all the easier to think through and project into our own scenarios.
Essential Soft Skills March 16, 2008
Robin S. Dorman (CA)
The Hard Truth About Soft Skills is a self-help book in the deepest sense--the wisest and wittiest advice on not only staying clear-eyed at work, but also elevating oneself into the upper reaches of the work force. It is a lively, original guide on cultivating habits, staying positive and cool, listening, mastering company culture, eschewing gossip, transforming a tormentor into a teacher, among so many other essential and delicious necessaries. With a messianic zeal, Peggy Klaus's dazzling book insists on the freedom to change one's life, and implicit in change is the sense that we act for ourselves rather than are acted upon. The Hard Truth inspires us to hone our vital soft skills--people skills!--and deserves a wide readership among those who work, which is nearly all of us. Peggy's first book, the hilarious, energetic, and astonishingly practical Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It, is about opening your eyes and reading yourself and, ultimately, how to live in the world, artfully bragging all the way. I am an ardent fan.
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