Training In Interpersonal Skills

The Handbook of Interpersonal Skills Training

The 20 training modules in this volume aim to help trainers teach managers and employees how to improve productivity through better working relationships. Each module includes everyday activities, lecture notes, training designs, reproducible handouts and overheads for a training session on how to improve trust and communication between people who rely on each other to get work done.

Perfecting Social Skills

That man is a social being is almost axiomatic. Our interpersonal relation ships can be sources of the most rewarding or the most painful of human experiences. To a large measure our accomplishments in life depend on the facility with which we interact with others-our social skill. The acquisition of social skills is, of course, a natural part of the overall socialization process. However, in many instances it becomes necessary or desirable to develop further an individual's social facilities. Such skill development is the topic of this book. Two major goals were kept in mind in the writing of this book. The first was to provide a conceptual framework within which to view social skills. Such a framework allows one to understand why it is important to develop social skills, and the effects that such skill development should have. If the reader has a thorough understanding of the concept of social skills and their development, it becomes possible to make appropriate innovations and adaptions to his or her own circumstances. Without such a framework, social-skills training becomes little more than a collection of disjointed techniques. Also, without a conceptual understanding, pro cedural innovations are difficult to incorporate into training.

Training in Interpersonal Skills