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June 24, 2005
Quixtar Leader Series - Getting Along
By QBlog in Miscellaneous
This is the fifth installment of the Quixtar Leader Series.
» Getting Along With People - Be Like-Able - (originally posted February 22, 2005 at Billy Florence - Founder of TeamDCI)
One of the greatest predictors of a person's success is their ability to get along with a wide range of people. Job skills without people skills can make your work life unnecessarily difficult. Billy Florence is a master at people skills.
Orrin Woodward: If a young professional was interested in developing their people skills what's one tip you'd give them, Billy?
Billy Florence: Orrin, I'd suggest that you focus on developing their relationship skills in baby steps. It takes persistence and practice. I've noticed that many of the people who do this best, had to learn this skill over time.
Orrin Woodward: That's sensible. What is a first baby step?
Billy Florence: Step one would be to focus on the word "like." Orrin, if we genuinely like people, like to talk to them and like to be helpful to them; they will genuinely like us, too.
Orrin Woodward: I agree, Billy. And thanks for stressing the quality of being genuine. It is vital.
Billy Florence: How about you, Orrin? What do you suggest for the second baby sep?
Orrin Woodward: I'd add "able" to the word "like," Billy. I've known some brilliant and talented people, who make it tough for others to be "able" to like them.
Billy Florence: What's causes that difficulty, Orrin?
Orrin Woodward: I've noticed that they have parts of their attitudes or personality that can be described as "scratchy."
Billy Florence: Scratchy?
Orrin Woodward: Yes! They can often rub people the wrong way.
Billy Florence: So, am I hearing you say that developing the skill of genuinely liking people and listening to them is an excellent exercise for smoothing out any scratchy personality patches?
Orrin Woodward: Exactly.
© provided to Bill Florence blog by Esource News. Keywords: Orrin Woodward, Billy Florence
Comments
yes, please can you remove the gobbledy-gook so that we can read the gobbledy-gook!!
I think qblog copy pasted it from their blog so the gobbledy-gook is theirs.
Thanks for the heads-up on the bad characters. I encourage everyone to thoroughly read this post because I think it provides some wonderful insight into the minds of Quixtar's most visible leaders.
Scratchy personality patches?
I'm sorry.. I can't stop giggling. Are we talking about people or laundry?
:) Have a great day, everyone. Don't forget to laugh at yourself sometimes. Your morale will be better off for it.
Ima
I wonder if Lightwave Technonlgies has come up with a holographic "anti-scratchy" patch to market through their pyramid, er MLM?
My policy has always been to be just as sincere as I have to be, given the situation *lol*
I appreciate the heads-up on ALL of the bad characters :-)
They are the ones that are "scratchy". That whole thing rubbed me the wrong way. That had to be a script. Only people in a cult or maybe zombies talk that way...uh, nevermind, it totally makes since.
I don't know if y'all have noticed, but our good friend and mentor, QBlog, gets along well with almost 600 of his readers and forum participants - scratchy personality patches and all! ;-)
I guess he can't be as negative as some people say he is...
I've heard he doesn't run with scissors, either.
Perhaps there are some people out there who need to take a closer examination of their scratchy personality patches to see exactly who is getting chafed - and in what way.
PW
It seems like good advice to me, but the problem is that they don't actually teach this stuff in quixtar.
They teach you to fake liking people at least until you dont like there plan then you can not like them all you want.
And with the scratchy personality thats why they have the scripts. Instead of teaching the IBO's real people skills.
Like I said good stuff but they don't practice what they preach.
How nauseating...
...says me who cant even type my own nick correctly... :)
Practice what they preach or no, they're forgetting that scratchy patches aren't always bad.
Sandpaper would be useless without its scratchy patches.
Speaking of scratchy, anyone ever tried using Meadowbrook toilet paper? Ouch!
Do scratchy people have "Stinkin' Thinkin'"? If so here is how you can protect yourself from negativity and stinking thinking.
"The Amway Foil Deflector Beanie
An Effective, Low-Cost Solution To Negative Thinking"
http://www.amquix.info/humor/afdb/afdb.html
je suis une personne du Québec qui dévelloppe ce commerce sérrieusement et qui va être un homme d'influence au pays quand je serrai un des top (3diamonds) alors pourquoi perdez vous votre temps à dire que ce que l'on fait n'est pas bon? quoi est bon ?.... sortez moi un opprtunitée qui n'a pas d'investissement de capital---pas d'employés---pas de boss---pas de local---pas de stress--- Tu gardes ta job et à côté tu te batis un avenir pour ta famille. Et toi tu dis que ce que je fais n'est pas bon! Bien fait des recherche sérieuses pas des gnaiseries rapporter pas des gens qui penses savoir quoi y dissent , fait des recherche au près des gens comme moi qui est sur le terrain à chacques soirs et qui est fier de faire ce qui fait. Votre entreprise est trop sérieuse pour pas vous informer au bonne place---bonne journée.
Here is the frog-to-english transalation:
"I am a person of Quebec which dévelloppe this trade sérrieusement
and which will be a man of influence to the country when I tightened
one of the signal (3diamonds) then why waste your time to say that
what one does is not good? what is good?.... leave to me one
opprtunitée which does not have an investment of capital-not of
employees-not of boss-not of room-not of stress --- You guards your
job and with side you batis a future for your family. And you you say
that what I do is not good! Well done research serious step of the
gnaiseries to bring back not people who think of knowing what said to
it, made research with close to people as me which is on the ground at
chacques evenings and which is proud to make what makes. Your
company is too serious for step to inform you at the good place-good
day."
Tapespeak in a different language. Neato!
Holy Vache!
I hope that inter malc didn't have to interpret the SA-4400 or the BSMAA through the comparable English to French auto-translator - else he's in for trouible :-)
Funny how it even translates into typical Amspeak idiocy, en francais no less.
C'est domage. Je ne compreds pas.
If you lived in France I'd call you a cheese eating surrender monkey.
But, since you're Canadian, I shall wish you a happy Canada Day.....in English.
Hey QBlog - there's some gobbledy-gook in this one and it's hard to read. Is it fixable?
Posted by: Dorothy | June 24, 2005 2:42 PM