The Power of Positive Criticism

By Hendrie Weisinger

Book Overview

Discover why criticism is essential to many aspects of business, such as performance appraisals, quality control, and team functioning, to name a few.

Some people just can't take criticism while others just can't give it--not in a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial manner, anyway. Using real-life scenarios and the author's 21 tips to positive criticism, you will learn to:

Think of criticism as a positive thingBecome strategic criticizers and develop their skill in using the power of positive criticismStay cool, calm, and collected when giving or getting criticismCriticize their boss--without getting fired, and more

The Power of Positive Criticism helps you take the sting out of criticism--and transform it from a destructive, demoralizing disaster into an energizing, educating experience that builds relationships and increases individual and organizational success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814474721
• ISBN13: 9780814474723
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Good Read!

Hendrie Davis Weisinger is simple, clear and very focused as he applies recent "emotional intelligence" techniques to the specific area of criticism, and helps the reader think of criticism as a valuable, vital tool, and not just a necessary evil. The tips in this self-improvement book push the reader toward greater self-awareness, a major element of emotional intelligence. The suggestions are elemental, most of them are easy to implement and even the hardest ones to enact require only a modest time commitment. The book's message is consistent to the point of repetition, though its simple language gives it real power. We [...] recommend this book to anyone who gives or receives criticism, which is to say, everyone. In particular, if you are a manager, an executive and or supervisor who deals with difficult personalities, here's how to tell them what you need them to know.

A delightful commentary on how to take and give criticism.

Dr. Weisinger has done it again. He has taken an emotionally charged issue and, through anecdotes and plain speaking, made criticism something that one ought to embrace. I loved it, and immediately refered it to 49 of my closest friends, as well as my HR Director.