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Improve Your Relationships and Connect With Others

It can be difficult to know what does it take to improve your relationships and connect with others without recognizing first that people are emotional first and rational second. But this is just one piece of the emotional puzzle that you can use to help connect and build relationships with others.

Emotional First and Rational Second

Understand that people will act with their emotions and make sure to appeal to the person with empathy. Empathy is a crucial characteristic of Leaders. The only way to manage and lead people is through caring relationships.

Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

Don’t criticize, condemn or complain

The first principle is about using empathy to try to be understanding. People are different and understanding their personalities and quirk can be the key to gaining that trust and will help you to know when to be tolerant and sympathetic.

Give honest and sincere appreciation

People know when you are not being true to your word or sincere about what you are saying. Be honest and show people that when you do something, you do it with the benefit of everyone in mind. Appreciation can affect someone massively if you appeal to what people care about, but there are simple things that you can do that will affect everyone.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Convincing people to help your cause requires them to join the cause. We have to be motivated and buy into what is said. Making sure people know that their opinions matter through your words and actions as well as sharing ownership of the ideas and responsibilities they create.

Tips for Being Likeable

Carnegie also had a few tips on what is needed to be an approachable and liked person. These tips included:

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Listening and encouraging openness.
5. Talk about what people care about most.
6. Make the other person feel important, and do it sincerely.

There are additional ideas available in the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and by using these tips and the ideas within our series of E.I. blogs, you can improve your relationships and grow your influence with the help of Emotional Intelligence.

People

5 Ways to Improve Employee Morale

When your people aren’t engaged, missed goals can often be a problem within the team. This problem can lead to issues that can splinter your business. Managers are responsible for making sure their teams feel secure and also to gain trust for the organization through their actions with their people. To help improve the feeling of confidence and morale in your group, we have a few ways to actively promote your employee morale and help bring discontent teammates back into the fold.

1. ASK FOR & GIVE FEEDBACK

Making sure your employee’s morale is up rather than down can be found merely through communicating with them. Having one on one sessions and quarterly feedback sessions with your people can show them you are listening to what they have to say while ensuring they do the same when you have feedback. Consider using an outside party to survey your teams and solicit raw and unbiased feedback to see if there is anything that is going unsaid and affecting the morale of your team.

2. GET TO KNOW YOUR TEAM

Getting comfortable with your team on a more personal basis can help build trust with your employees and show you care about them outside of just work-related activity. For example, asking them about similar interests, how their families are or if they watched their favorite teams this last weekend can all help humanize you within the organization and create a more familiar and friendly environment.

3. TRAINING AND CAREER PROGRESSION PATHING

Working with your people on an individual basis can reveal tons about their wants and needs. Many people are looking to build their careers and acquire more skills to grow their toolset. Identify what skills and paths your employees are interested in thorough discussions and utilization of feedback sessions and deliver appropriate training classes based on the desires of your people.

4. RECOGNIZE ALL SUCCESSES, NO MATTER HOW SMALL!

Celebrate ALL success! Recognizing your people is essential for showing them that you care. You should always reward a great job with praise at the very least but you can always make a big deal about a win, no matter how small.

5. FOCUS ON COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION

Making sure your people are working together as well as working with you is another way to help boost morale. Building that comradery through team building activities and fun events can help an employee see the team as more than just a job, but as more of another family!

Utilizing these tips, you can help bring your low morale employees into a new way of thinking and turn their morale around to create a new culture and environment that everyone wants to work within.

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