Laurie Wilhelm
Laurie Wilhelm is the author of the Express Yourself to Success. This eBook and website are designed to help you achieve success more quickly by using strong verbal communications skills. Achieve your success by working with others through improved social and interpersonal skills, public speaking, networking, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Find out how you can give your career a boost by going to www.expressyourselftosuccess.com. www.expressyourselftosuccess.com
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Strong positive relationships are essential to achieving our success - whether they are work relationships, family relationships or relationships with others in our communities. We're in almost constant contact with others and we should make every contact an opportunity to strengthen our social skills and reinforce our relationships.
With that in mind, here are ten benefits for maintaining good long-term relationships:
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With that in mind, here are ten benefits for maintaining good long-term relationships:
1.
Asking for feedback is a great way to get information from others that helps us make improvements on any number of projects or situations.
Recently, I was looking for feedback and asked my peer the following:
"I've attached the two ads that I spoke to you about when we met. If you have a moment, could you please take a look at both and give me your feedback?"
This was her response:
"I do not like either.
Recently, I was looking for feedback and asked my peer the following:
"I've attached the two ads that I spoke to you about when we met. If you have a moment, could you please take a look at both and give me your feedback?"
This was her response:
"I do not like either.
Good social skills are key to getting along with others and they help us to connect with the people around us. They're not about conforming, but having a healthy respect for others.
There are many, many different elements to social skills and if you're looking for an all-in-one, short-and-sweet, how-to lesson on them, you're going to be disappointed.
There are many, many different elements to social skills and if you're looking for an all-in-one, short-and-sweet, how-to lesson on them, you're going to be disappointed.
Giving feedback is one of the most important interpersonal skills for any manager.
The purpose of constructive feedback is to provide information that will contribute to improvements and create better results. For feedback to be useful, it has to be actionable, otherwise it's likely that the situation or behaviour will recur.
Whenever you're giving feedback, keep in mind that you'll probably have an ongoing relationship with this person, so use your feedback to reinforce good relations.
The purpose of constructive feedback is to provide information that will contribute to improvements and create better results. For feedback to be useful, it has to be actionable, otherwise it's likely that the situation or behaviour will recur.
Whenever you're giving feedback, keep in mind that you'll probably have an ongoing relationship with this person, so use your feedback to reinforce good relations.
Conflicts are a normal part of life. We interact with so many different people in so many different situations that we're bound to run into difficulties.
A conflict is a disagreement where those involved feel that they are somehow being threatened. It could be that they perceive a threat to their way of thinking, their interests, position, possessions - anything that they hold of value.
A conflict is a disagreement where those involved feel that they are somehow being threatened. It could be that they perceive a threat to their way of thinking, their interests, position, possessions - anything that they hold of value.