Workplace: How To Understand People?

Many important decisions we make in life and in the workplace are related to people.

However, it is not easy to see a man in a fair way.

How can we make a quick judgement of a person through first impressions and avoid identifying the potential stocks correctly instead of using them correctly?

The simple way is to use external markers, such as school performance, capital net value, social status, job title and so on.

Social media has given us some new external rating criteria: how many Facebook friends do the person have? Who are our common contacts on LinkedIn? How many followers are there on Twitter?

These external indicators and qualifications can only reflect one aspect of human beings.

Although they are important, they do not reflect the whole picture of a person.

Some subtle internal factors can better embody the essence of a person. This is the "soft nature" which is easy to be omitted when using external indicators.

Working skills can be taught, but changing a person's personality and attitude is not that simple.

In contrast, the external and technical factors are more intuitive and objective.

There are many difficulties in measuring soft traits, such as wishes or attitudes.

In addition, face to face contact, careful listening and careful observation are essential.

That's why job interview is more like an audition than a quiz about skills.

In the past few years, I have been collecting and thinking some questions, which help me improve my ability to discriminate others, especially with others.

Degree related aspects.

The following 10 key questions can help you better understand the appearance and incentives of people's inner characteristics under the appearance.

1. this person is used to express and

How much time do you have? You certainly want to hire people who are confident and not afraid to show their positions, but if a person's ratio of expression and listening is above 60%, you should consider it.

Is it because this person is too arrogant and unwilling to learn from others, or is he just having stage fright, which leads to disorderly and rambling discourse?

2. is this person the energy giver or the winner? Unfortunately, there is a kind of person who carries and emits negative energy at all times. There must be such a person around you.

There is also a kind of person who always exudes positive energy and optimism.

There is an old saying in China that giving roses to a man has fragrance.

The givers of energy are compassionate and generous. They are people who you want to spend time with.

3. in the face of a task, is this person inclined to "action" or "resistance"? Some people immediately enter defensive and critical state when accepting tasks.

Others started to move into the problem solving mode.

For most jobs, you should be inclined to hire second types of people.