June 1, 2010
Relationships Are Everything!
by Aura Ziv, RNC CPT
Your Foundation for Success
Relationship in the workplace is the core of a strong career. Your ability to develop and maintain long-term customer relationships is the foundation for your success in business. Relationships requires a clear understanding of the dynamics of the people around you and how you are experienced by your peers.
Propose a Business Marriage
For your co worker, usually means a decision to enter into a long-term relationship with you and your company. It is very much like a “business marriage.” Before the co-worker decides to trusts you, he can take you or leave you. He doesn’t need you or your company. He has a variety of options and choices open to him, of who to befriend and trust at work. People need and want to feel appreciated, adored and most of all respected. Showing people that you care about them, will in turn make them care about you and you will gain respect in the workplace by your bosses and peers. Remember that you have to genuine in your sincerity, otherwise people will think that you are trying to get something from them. If your peers even suspect that you are even half sincere, you will lose their trust and it will be very difficult to get it back.
Fulfill Your Promises
It’s as simple as that! When you make commitments, stick to them! Be on time and
show up with your full attention to that person, group or committee. That will result in people trusting you more. If you are late, don’t follow through or don’t volunteer to be apart of things with your heart, you may find it difficult to get along with others and in your career.
Focus on the Relationship
Because of the complexity of today’s hi-tech world the relationship is actually more important than the work you do, in terms of getting along with others and being promoted. So in reality, the co-workers decisions about you is based on the fact that he/she has come to trust you and believe in what you say.
Keep Your Co-Workers for Life
The single biggest mistake that causes people to not get along with others at work is taking those co-workers for granted. This is a form of “employee entropy.” It is when the manager relaxes his efforts to listen and begins to ignore the employee. Almost 70 percent of employees who walked away from their existing jobs later replied that they made the change primarily because of a lack of attention from the company.
Once you have invested the time and made the efforts necessary to build a high-quality, trust-based relationships with your co-workers, you must maintain that relationship for the life of your business and your career. You must never take it for granted.
Action Exercises
Begin to be as sincere as you can in the workplace, and see how your relationships at work develop because you are showing those around you that you care about them.
