Feb5

In my sermon preparation this week (my current series is on friendships) I came across an interesting list from Dale Carnegie on six ways to make people like you. Now, I’m not sure you can actually make people like you, but I am sure you can influence people in that direction. Here is his list. I hope one or two of them might help you further develop your ‘people skills’.

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
   
3. Remember that a person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound.
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.

“Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.” Philippians 2:3-5

Tim