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Speaking Your Mind in 101 Difficult Situations
Offers strategies for tactful conversations and discusses specific situations, such as asking for a raise, stopping sexual harassment, breaking off a relationship, criticizing a spouse, or revealing a secret
- GenresSelf HelpNonfiction
240 pages, Paperback
First published April 4, 1994
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January 15, 2017
As the title suggests, this book is literally about speaking your mind in 101 difficult situations in an assertive manner.
Don presents the reader with a simple strategy to improve assertiveness, a strategy he calls TACTFUL. Each letter in word has a meaning in relation to assertiveness;
T – think before you speak
A – apologize quickly when you blunder
C – converse, don’t compete
T – time your comments
F – focus on behavior and not personality
U – uncover hidden feelings and
L – listen for feedback.
I thought Don made his point in the first chapter than went on a roll of giving examples that made me forget what chapter one told me to keep in mind - TACTFUL. I did learn something, as is always the case with any book, I just felt like they was too much rambling and repetition. In my opinion, thirty pages or less could have sufficed for the material Don chose to present in more than two hundred plus pages (guess I should have taken the title more seriously).
Don presents the reader with a simple strategy to improve assertiveness, a strategy he calls TACTFUL. Each letter in word has a meaning in relation to assertiveness;
T – think before you speak
A – apologize quickly when you blunder
C – converse, don’t compete
T – time your comments
F – focus on behavior and not personality
U – uncover hidden feelings and
L – listen for feedback.
I thought Don made his point in the first chapter than went on a roll of giving examples that made me forget what chapter one told me to keep in mind - TACTFUL. I did learn something, as is always the case with any book, I just felt like they was too much rambling and repetition. In my opinion, thirty pages or less could have sufficed for the material Don chose to present in more than two hundred plus pages (guess I should have taken the title more seriously).
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