Developing Effective Working Relationships
Ensuring your people skills are fit for purpose
In today's competitive environment, 'getting the job done' requires co-operation within teams, across different functions and between organisations. This applies equally across all industry sectors and for non profit making organisations.
Early in their careers your people may be able to work independently and survive on their technical skills, but long-term success depends increasingly on being able to win the hearts and minds of others. Often, these key 'people' skills are inadequate for today's needs.
Again, while many professionals develop satisfactory working relationships with their peers within their own organisation, all too often they can be found wanting when challenged to work collaboratively with people having different working styles and values.
Early in their careers your people may be able to work independently and survive on their technical skills, but long-term success depends increasingly on being able to win the hearts and minds of others. Often, these key 'people' skills are inadequate for today's needs.
Again, while many professionals develop satisfactory working relationships with their peers within their own organisation, all too often they can be found wanting when challenged to work collaboratively with people having different working styles and values.
How we develop effective working relationships
The skills needed to develop effective working relationships, and thereby enhance personal and organisational success, can readily be defined, learned and embedded.
The scope of our Developing Effective Working Relationships services typically covers how to for example:ï€
- Build high performance rapport, trust and credibility
- Mirror other people's preferences in thinking, communicating and making decisions
- Understand what motivates me - and what motivates other people
- Develop skills in contextual listening
- See situations from multiple points of view and generate options
- Understand win-win thinking and outcome thinking
- Develop strategies for persuading and influencing
- Discover the roles that suit me best
- Develop strategies for handling conflict
- Celebrate diversity
- Implement key tips for successful networking
- Learn to enhance skills through Myers Briggs and NLP
Our services are valuable to anyone who works in a team or group. They are also highly relevant to staff working across departmental or geographical divides within organisations. More ...
Our credentials
We have a track record of over 12 years of working on this topic with pan European organisations, public as well as private sector and with SMEs and individuals. Our personnel include qualified Myers Briggs and NLP practitioners and credentialed ICF coaches.