Originally Posted by Almighty Colin (Post 630243)

Sweety,

Here's some advice that will help you both in business and in your person life.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Part One
Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

1. Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Part Two
Six ways to make people like you

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
6. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

Part Three
Win people to your way of thinking

1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2. Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, "You're wrong."
3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4. Begin in a friendly way.
5. Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
7. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
8. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
9. Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Dramatize your ideas.
12. Throw down a challenge.

Part Four
Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
A leader's job often includes changing your people's attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to accomplish this:

1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
2. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
5. Let the other person save face.
6. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
7. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
8. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
9. Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

Originally Posted by DannyCox (Post 802739)

I met Colin way back at the very first IA2000 show when none of us knew or understood a thing. He was one of the first to catch on to the "business". I used to work a few seminar panels with him back in the "old days". Good guy, and he lives what he writes about in sarettah's post.

Originally Posted by LizAEBN (Post 802928)

So Colin read Dale Carnegie?

Originally Posted by gonzo (Post 802639)

Colin is one of the smartest people I know in this business and certainly the most under praised!

Originally Posted by Forest (Post 803035)

quoted for truth

I have gotten alot of inspiration from colin in my years in this biz

I remember when he and I were mods for the tgp2 board here

Originally Posted by gonzo (Post 803044)

TGP2 is the perfect example of people not listening to Colin.

They called it cheating when I was doing it though.