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Personal Credibility Factor, The: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You've Lost It)
- By Sandy Allgeier
- Published Feb 9, 2009 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2009
- Dimensions: 5-3/8 X 8-1/4
- Pages: 192
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-208279-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-208279-2
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-714903-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-714903-2
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Sandy Allgeier, SPHR, is a consultant, trainer/facilitator, and coach who helps organizations maximize their human resource potential. Before launching her consulting business in 2000, she had 25+ years’ experience in HR, rising to SVP of HR at a major provider of assisted living services, with responsibility for over 7,000 employees.
Allgeier contributed to the book Conversations on Success, Volume 7 (Insight, 2005), which also featured Stephen Covey and Dr. Denis Waitley. She earned the 1999 Award for Professional Excellence from SHRM’s Louisville chapter and was selected as faculty member and facilitator for SHRM’s HR Generalist Certificate and Recruitment and Retention Certificate Programs.
You'd trust your life with some people. Others, you wouldn't trust for an instant, even when the stakes are low. Why? What builds the personal credibility that some people simply exude? What do they do differently? This book shows you and helps you build your own personal credibility, the #1 attribute in earning trust and achieving success. Renowned personal coach Sandra K. Allgeier begins with a set of powerful stories that demonstrate what personal credibility really consists of, how it's earned, and how easily it can be destroyed. You'll discover how small daily actions, together with specific communication techniques and decisions, shape others' view of whether you can be trusted. Next, Allgeier illuminates three oft-neglected, crucial secrets of personal credibility. You'll find a hands-on assessment tool designed to help you bring more personal authenticity and transparency to your interactions; as well as practical guidance on suspending judgment and really listening, thereby earning others' trust even if you ultimately choose to disagree. Allgeier concludes with seven specific steps you can take every day to increase your personal credibility, and rebuild credibility you may have already lost. Following her easy-to-understand, easy-to-use guidance, you can live a life that's not just more successful, but happier and more fulfilled, too.
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When I was a boy, my father gave me a few bits of advice to heed if I wanted others to trust and respect me: follow through on your promises. Don't rush to judgment. Match your words to your actions and your actions to your words. Show others the respect you'd like to receive. Treat your word as a sacred bond. Apparently Daddy was a smidge too circumspect, because Sandy Allgeier has spun those concise, durable little sayings into a full-length book that investigates Daddy's advice in truly exhausting detail.Allgier takes the truths I'd like to think most of us grew up with and extrapolates from them three "secrets," seven "steps," and so many fortune cookie bromides that I lost count. Now I know that the tech stock bubble, Enron meltdown, and subprime mortgage crisis prove that not everyone listened to their parents as religiously as I did. But Allgeier says nothing between these covers that Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and generations of business book writers... Read more
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Who Do You Trust and Why? Who Trusts You and Why?, By
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U5VJMW/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_imgThis book fascinated me for one reason to begin with. About ten months ago I met a Mexican (legal resident, not yet a citizen) laborer in the doorway going into the bank. He's worked for us ever since. Now, what did Manny do to cause my husband and me to trust him instinctively? The author answers this question in the first few pages of the book, in his story of a man called Dan. First, Manny was wearing a shirt that had his business name and business license number stenciled on it. Second, he spoke with us cheerfully and cogently and agreed to meet us at our house in half an hour to discuss an urgent but small task. Third, he carried through. Fourth, he kept us from making a serious mistake that would have made the situation much worse. This book, according to previous critics, is nothing but common sense. I agree. But in the last fifty years, common sense has become more and more uncommon. Do... Read more
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This book was OK, pretty much in line with the many, many titles of similar theme. Most of the observations and/or suggestions included in the book are common sense, but it never hurts to refresh one's common sense thoughts from time to time...
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The Personal Credibility Factor Secret #1: Forget Power, Position, Status, and Other Such Nonsense
Table of Contents
Introduction xvii
Part I: The Three Secrets to Personal Credibility 1
Chapter 1 Secret #1: Forget Power, Position, Status, and Other Such Nonsense 5
Chapter 2 Secret #2: I Can See Right Through You 15
Chapter 3 Secret #3: The Decision to Suspend Judgment 31
Part II: Stepping Up with Credibility: Seven Steps to Influence Credibility 41
Chapter 4 Step #1: Know Your “Stuff” 45
Chapter 5 Step #2: Keep Commitments 51
Chapter 6 Step #3: Honor Confidences and Avoid Gossip 59
Chapter 7 Step #4: Know Yourself–the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! 63
Chapter 8 Step #5: Choose to Value Others–the Good, and Yes, Even the Bad and the Ugly! 75
Chapter 9 Step #6: Ask More and Listen Most 91
Chapter 10 Step #7: Create Credible Interactions 101
Part III: Face the Truth and Begin Anew 119
Chapter 11 The Truth Shall Set You Free–When You Avoid Truth Traps! 121
Chapter 12 Credibility: I’ve Lost It–Can I Rebuild It? 131
Chapter 13 Rebuilding: One Step at a Time 143
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