How do you go about building professional, productive relationships in the workplace? It’s more than just building friendships and it takes an intentional process of listening, learning, communicating, and clarifying. Listen in to hear a list of ways many people go wrong with work relationships and how you can avoid the common pitfalls.
Leaders can miss cues when it comes to building work relationships, confusing the dynamic for friendship. I’ll share insight into how to create healthy relationships that are built on great communication, expectations, and clarity. You’ll also get a step-by-step guide through the process of successfully joining a new team or company—whether it’s in a new city, state, or country—and discover what can help you create better relationships when you’re new to an organization.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:
- Why building a relationship isn’t the same as building a friendship.
- One of the biggest ways that relationships go wrong.
- The importance of understanding the full situation before implementing change.
- The value of getting to know the internal politics.
- Why it’s key to understand the local culture where you’re at before embarking on new workplace relationship building.
- Questions to ask that will help you create better relationships when you’re new to an organization.
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“We sometimes have this internal list of how we think other people should behave based on our beliefs and things we have been conditioned to think are just truths.” – Elisia Keown Share on X
“Whether you are starting a new role at a new company or if you’re established, there’s not a wrong time to build upon a relationship in the workplace.” – Elisia Keown Share on X
“Everything we do requires interaction with another human.” – Elisia Keown Share on X
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