Human Behavior

This highly enjoyable career development book reveals dynamic aspects of the workplace that are hidden to many, ignored by others - factors that can make or break careers.

Learn the most effective observation techniques and how they can influence your interactions with others; find out the different facial expressions and how to decode them; understand how someone’s posture and gestures can give away their emotions, and more!

Manipulation is the conscious act of causing someone to do a certain thing or act in a certain way. Manipulation is clever, skillful, and sometimes unscrupulous. Manipulation is not always a bad thing. Knowing that manipulation is happening is the first step towards ending it. By knowing the signs of manipulation, people can often stop it before it becomes a bad habit or a detrimental way of life. At the same time, understanding manipulation will help you to get better at it, if that is your goal.

During a conversation, only 7 percent of what we communicate consists of the literal content of the message. The remaining 93 percent is regulated by para-verbal and non-verbal communication. Did you know this? The human psyche is much more elaborate than you might think. A person can say one thing, but think of something else. It is only by analyzing the verbal and para-verbal aspects of communication that it is possible to know what that person is thinking!

In Understood: The Greatest Human Need and the Key to Engagement, Maria deBruijn explores the profound impact of feeling understood in the workplace. Inspired by years of research, deBruijn offers nine principles that serve as a blueprint for leaders to cultivate an environment where engagement thrives. She highlights the crucial role leaders play in fostering connections, leading to higher productivity, lower turnover, and greater overall well-being within the workplace.

From your head to your feet, your body is communicating something out to the world, whether you know it or not. Sometimes this is helpful, but sometimes you don’t want to reveal all of your cards. You may be unintentionally communicating something to the world that is hindering you from success, whether at work, with friends, or with your love life. By becoming aware of body language, you can learn how to present yourself better to get what you want and figure out what others are thinking and feeling to better work with them.

Relatos Humanos cuenta la historia de cómo viven los empleados y directivos la aventura de un negocio al que no le queda más remedio que adaptarse al cambio para no desaparecer, donde el clima es tenso y no dejan de sucederse situaciones tan habituales como despidos, promociones, prejubilaciones, cambios en la dirección, etc. A lo largo de sus páginas, sus autores, diez directores de Recursos Humanos, descubren su visión sobre las experiencias y vivencias de las personas que conforman las empresas y cómo abordan todos los procesos que se cuecen en el día a día del trabajo.

Our capacity to tell stories is one of the ways in which our species is unique, but most of us don't appreciate their true power. The Story of Your Life will uncover scientific findings from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience which demonstrate that we are hardwired to understand the world in terms not of facts and figures, but of narratives.

Emotional intelligence is about knowing enough about your emotions that you are able to turn them into positive energy that enhances, as opposed to undermines, your work efficiency. You definitely will love learning about your emotions. You will know that the best place to start with dealing with others as a leader is from within yourself. Yet, as you understand yourself, you get ideas about others, and you can recognize their emotional states. This way, you can guide your employees on the same and path, too.

Communication is ingrained in our societal practices and an integral part of human survival. It determines the way we deal with conflict and build stronger relationships and even how we persuade others to give us what we want. Learn the proven tactics that most of the successful communicators in the world use.

Dark psychology has been used since the dawn of early man. Deception and persuasion play into survival of the fittest. In essence, as long as humans have had thoughts in their heads, they’ve been thinking about how to outsmart and outwit other humans. It is only in the last century and a half that dark psychology has been studied in a modern sense, with the rise of criminology and forensic psychology as recognized sciences. Many pieces of the dark psychology puzzle were put into place well before then.

Shopping addiction is a raging phenomenon among developed countries and has been studied over and over. Sociologists say it's a female drive in an attempt to explain the differences in shopping behavior between men and women. It was said that the same obsession of men over sports can be linked to the way women go crazy at Black Friday sales or at mall openings.

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior. They are the Super Crunchers.

The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre. This audiobook shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes.

Most American corporations invest money, time, and energy in diversity, equity, and inclusion, popular terms that realistically bear little weight. Companies say they want to hire people from a wide array of backgrounds, but do they even know what a diverse workforce looks like? Why do so many companies fail in creating and cultivating an environment that truly embraces diversity and its benefits?

Find out how to read and analyze people like the pros! Have you ever wanted to be able to deduce and read people like Sherlock Holmes and other great detectives? Maybe you want to be a detective in the future, or maybe you're just simply looking for a new skill. Either way this book will teach you the basics in reading and analyzing people. Get ahead by taking the proven techniques you learn in this book and applying them in your life.

This is a simplification of topics and subtopics under organizational effectiveness into everyday, current, and easy-to-understand language. Notwithstanding, you will find topics like organization culture, employee engagement, team dynamics, organizational structure, change management, and even the concept of organizational effectiveness easier to comprehend as you work or go about your usual activities. You will also understand why organizational effectiveness is one of the duties of human resource professionals.

Lesen Sie Menschen wie ein Buch und behalten sie in jedem Gespräch die Oberhand mit diesen narrensicheren Techniken! Indem Sie die Kunst der Körpersprache beherrschen, werden Sie entdecken, wie Ihre Körpersprache die Wahrnehmung anderer Menschen von Ihnen beeinflusst - sowohl positiv als auch negativ - so dass Sie sicherstellen können, dass sie sich bei jeder Interaktion gut fühlen... und dabei bei sich belieben und sich bei Ihnen selbst wohlfühlen!

From your head to your feet, your body communicates something out to the world, whether you know it or not. Sometimes, this is helpful, but sometimes, you don’t want to reveal all of your cards. Becoming self-aware of your body language is the first step toward controlling and then utilizing body language to your benefit. Using this book, you can master the differences in body language needed to succeed at whatever role you’re playing, such as presenter, salesperson, or listener.

Worried that learning how to analyze people and protecting yourself against manipulation might be unethical? Don’t fret! This book provides you with the tools to read people effectively while also ensuring that you use this knowledge for good.