Building good workplace relationships requires the same approach and commitment as building any other relationship. Just because work throws people together, it doesn’t follow that they will instantly connect and become the best team.
It takes effort to build workplace relationships: Here are 5 tips that can help:
- Take time to try to understand others. Find out what’s important to them, and why. They may be from a different generation or cultural background; look for ways to get to know them better. Consider the different personalities your coworkers have. Find the best ways to use these personalities when working together as a team.
- Be dependable and honest in all your interactions.
- Encourage people any way you can. Compliment them on their work. Cheer them on when they take risks, and thank them when they do things for you.
- Communicate – Listen well; listen more than you speak. Inform coworkers about your projects and schedules. Ask them how their work is going.
- If you are mistreated by a difficult person, don’t take it personally. Set boundaries when dealing with difficult people. Respond positively to their positive behaviour. Don’t give their negative behaviour too much attention, thereby reinforcing it.
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The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs so you won’t have to) « JimStroud.com // May 15, 2007 at 10:25 am
[…] 11. Keep Bill Vick in your prayers this week 12. Five ways to reach out and touch someone 13. Need work? Non-bloggers, need not apply 14. Is the internet all that and a bag of chips? Some say otherwise… 15. Hahahaha… Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… (Wait, let me catch my breath for a moment) Hahahahahahahahahahahaha… Okay, now that was funny. (Excuse me, while I go watch it again.) […]
Roland Jeffries // May 15, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I recently tried all of these after being fired from a job. Not only did they not work, but people thought I was stalking them.
I’m such a loser.
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Candidates, why beat around the bush on social networks? - itzblogging big - Serving the Unserved – Recruiters, Job Seekers, Quiet Working Professionals // May 21, 2007 at 12:47 pm
[…] Candidates should let management hear their ideas, and log their own successes, literally writing down and dating them. They should also maximize inter-office networks: strike up conversations with co-workers and make connections. As HR-esources points out, it begins as simply as encouraging co-qorkers and trying to communicate with them. “Everybody knows somebody,” a saying goes… […]
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