How To Build Professional Relationships At Work - Create Better Relationships Faster
Channel: Enhance.training
Date: 2021-12-30

How to Build Professional Relationships at Work is a challenge for us all. 

I share 8 ways tried and tested ways to build professional relationships at work so you can create better relationships faster with your colleagues. 

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Better relationships allow you to be more effective at work, increase your enjoyment at work and increase the likelihood of being promoted. 

The first step when relationship building at work is to be a likeable person. This may seem obvious – being nice, pleasant, and considerate all go a long way to helping colleagues think positively towards you. 

Meet face to face wherever possible when building good relationships at work. Nothing beats it. With so many ways to contact people, many of them electronic, it is easy not to make the effort. 

When building professional relationships, it is always useful to do your homework before meeting. This gives you a list of question you could ask to get the other person talking about their favourite subjects and gets the relationship off to a great start. 

It can be hard to actually start building professional relationships at work, so look for any excuse to be able to meet with those you are looking to get to know. I run through my favourite tactics.

When building professional relationships it can be easy to forget the personal side of the relationship. Do find about what your colleagues do outside of work, what gets them excited and what they spend their time on. This adds a lot more depth and fun to the relationship.

As you build relationships at work, aim to help first and ask second. This is a much quicker and surer way of building positive and productive relationships. 

In my view, the most important action to consistently do is deliver what you say. You must deliver and avoid letting people down. Delivering cements your relationship. You will end up with a higher standing in the team, your opinion carries more weight plus a host of other benefits. 

And lastly, be consistent with your behaviour, effort and action. Consistency builds trust. Trust builds strong relationships. You must be consistent. 

Make the effort to build good relationships, and that investment will be paid back to you many times over at work. 

Enjoy building all those new relationships at work.


00:00 Intro
01:50 Be a Likeable Person
02:51 Meet Face To Face
04:05 Do Your Homework
05:08 Find excuses to meet
06:08 Build a Personal as well as a Professional Relationship
07:15 Aim to Help first and Ask second
08:34 Deliver what you say you will
10:00 Ensure Consistency of Effort and Action
10:30 In Summary

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Please leave any questions in the commentary section below and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles
enhance.training