1. Smile. Few people want to be around someone who is always down in the dumps. Do your best to be friendly and upbeat with your coworkers. Maintain a positive, cheerful attitude about work and about life. Smile often. The positive energy you radiate will draw others to you.
2. Be appreciative. Find one positive thing about everyone you work with and let them hear it. Be generous with praise and kind words of encouragement. Say thanks when someone helps you. Make colleagues feel welcome when they call or stop by your office. If you let others know that they are appreciated, they’ll want to give you their best.
3. Pay attention to others. Observe what’s going on in other people’s lives. Acknowledge their happy milestones and express concern and sympathy for difficult situations such as an illness or death. Make eye contact and address people by their first names. Ask others for their opinions.
4. Practice active listening.Actively listening is a way of demonstrating that you intend to hear and understand another’s point of view. It means restating, in your own words, what the other person has said. Your coworkers will appreciate knowing you really do listen to what they have to say.
5. Bring people together. Create an environment that encourages others to work together. Treat everyone equally and don’t play favorites. Avoid talking about others behind their backs. Follow up on other people’s suggestions or requests. When you make a statement or announcement, check to see that you have been understood. If folks see you as someone solid and fair, they will grow to trust you.
6. Resolve conflicts. Take a step beyond simply bringing people together and become someone who resolves conflicts when they arise. Learn how to be an effective mediator. If coworkers are bickering over personal or professional disagreements, arrange to sit down with both parties and help sort out their differences. By taking on such a leadership role, you will garner respect and admiration from those around you.
7. Communicate clearly. Pay close attention to both what you say and how you say it. Being a clear and effective communicator helps you avoid misunderstandings with coworkers. Verbal eloquence projects an image of intelligence and maturity, no matter what your age. If you tend to blurt out anything that comes to mind, people won’t put much weight on your words or opinions.
8. Use Humor. Don’t be afraid to be funny or clever. Most people are drawn to a person that can make them laugh. Use your sense of humor as an effective tool to lower barriers and gain people’s affection.
9. Empathise. Empathy means being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel. Try to see things from another person’s perspective. You can help yourself with this by staying in touch with your own emotions, since those who are cut off from their feelings are often unable to empathize with others.
10. Don’t complain. There is nothing worse than a chronic complainer or whiner. If you simply have to vent about something, save it for your diary. But spare those around you, or else you’ll get a bad reputation.
Cheers
Deeapli
From India, Delhi
52. Be appreciative. Find one positive thing about everyone you work with and let them hear it. Be generous with praise and kind words of encouragement. Say thanks when someone helps you. Make colleagues feel welcome when they call or stop by your office. If you let others know that they are appreciated, they’ll want to give you their best.
3. Pay attention to others. Observe what’s going on in other people’s lives. Acknowledge their happy milestones and express concern and sympathy for difficult situations such as an illness or death. Make eye contact and address people by their first names. Ask others for their opinions.
4. Practice active listening.Actively listening is a way of demonstrating that you intend to hear and understand another’s point of view. It means restating, in your own words, what the other person has said. Your coworkers will appreciate knowing you really do listen to what they have to say.
5. Bring people together. Create an environment that encourages others to work together. Treat everyone equally and don’t play favorites. Avoid talking about others behind their backs. Follow up on other people’s suggestions or requests. When you make a statement or announcement, check to see that you have been understood. If folks see you as someone solid and fair, they will grow to trust you.
6. Resolve conflicts. Take a step beyond simply bringing people together and become someone who resolves conflicts when they arise. Learn how to be an effective mediator. If coworkers are bickering over personal or professional disagreements, arrange to sit down with both parties and help sort out their differences. By taking on such a leadership role, you will garner respect and admiration from those around you.
7. Communicate clearly. Pay close attention to both what you say and how you say it. Being a clear and effective communicator helps you avoid misunderstandings with coworkers. Verbal eloquence projects an image of intelligence and maturity, no matter what your age. If you tend to blurt out anything that comes to mind, people won’t put much weight on your words or opinions.
8. Use Humor. Don’t be afraid to be funny or clever. Most people are drawn to a person that can make them laugh. Use your sense of humor as an effective tool to lower barriers and gain people’s affection.
9. Empathise. Empathy means being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel. Try to see things from another person’s perspective. You can help yourself with this by staying in touch with your own emotions, since those who are cut off from their feelings are often unable to empathize with others.
10. Don’t complain. There is nothing worse than a chronic complainer or whiner. If you simply have to vent about something, save it for your diary. But spare those around you, or else you’ll get a bad reputation.
Cheers
Deeapli
From India, Delhi
Hi really Nice.
But would like to know how a person can be a clever and humorous??
I used to think these qualities are in born skill.. or am i wrong??
One can develop these skill??
But my question how one can do that???
From India, Hyderabad
But would like to know how a person can be a clever and humorous??
I used to think these qualities are in born skill.. or am i wrong??
One can develop these skill??
But my question how one can do that???
From India, Hyderabad
Dear Deepali, Your views are appreciated and in addition always use/remeber the name of the person you are communicating. Regard Jaspal
From India, Delhi
From India, Delhi
i know that skill like clever and humor may be in born but certainly you can work it up by reading some good humor material like jokes, funny situations etc that will surely help you develop a good sense of humor and share the info that will help you to be more precise in selection of your words and read a lot to develop a good vocablary so that your mind will provide the right word for the situation.
as far as being clever is concerned its juz clever which is the general level of knowledge plus doing the things in the correct way a general sense of thinking which i know each most of us posses but to add to it is beingng proactive in whole sense and doing the right things. i think this should do but if at all any more queries are there then juz fill free to ask as knowledge is meant to be shared and may be it will benefit me too
regards
Kamal Modi
From India, New Delhi
as far as being clever is concerned its juz clever which is the general level of knowledge plus doing the things in the correct way a general sense of thinking which i know each most of us posses but to add to it is beingng proactive in whole sense and doing the right things. i think this should do but if at all any more queries are there then juz fill free to ask as knowledge is meant to be shared and may be it will benefit me too
regards
Kamal Modi
From India, New Delhi
this topic was very interesting and informative at the same time..
but i encounter a problem during my interactions with my colleagues i.e.
as am a person who is ever smiling and funny and humorous too i also become friendly with people too easily and trust them as individuals but everytime after a while people start taking me for granted may be becoz i give everybody too much space.. or i think I am an extra sweet person and people take advantage of it and think that they can get away easily..
please can some body suggest me what shall i do.. to make my position respectable in my colleagues..
regards,
Neha
From India
but i encounter a problem during my interactions with my colleagues i.e.
as am a person who is ever smiling and funny and humorous too i also become friendly with people too easily and trust them as individuals but everytime after a while people start taking me for granted may be becoz i give everybody too much space.. or i think I am an extra sweet person and people take advantage of it and think that they can get away easily..
please can some body suggest me what shall i do.. to make my position respectable in my colleagues..
regards,
Neha
From India
Hi Deepali, I appreciate you for providing such useful tips. Can you give such tips regarding "Tips to improve networking skills"? I will appreciate if you do it.
From India, Pune
From India, Pune
I think what's meant here is - a lot of us have an inherent sense of humor or cleverness which we bring out only in company of our friends and relatives. I mean, show me a man who hasn't cracked a joke in merriment with his frens?
But most of us are hesitant to use such humor in a formal setting, say in a business meeting. The point made here is just to shake away such reservations and to be naturally humorous in formal occasions as well! what say ppl??
From India, Delhi
But most of us are hesitant to use such humor in a formal setting, say in a business meeting. The point made here is just to shake away such reservations and to be naturally humorous in formal occasions as well! what say ppl??
From India, Delhi
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