Nov 1, 2011
Developing Your Interpersonal Skills
In fact your ability to develop a sound interpersonal communication and relationship will impact the future expansion of your enterprise.
Three basic constituents form the core of good interpersonal skills. They are: the collaborative efforts, leadership qualities and intercommunication endeavors. Together these three ingredients make an effective combination for laying the foundation for developing interpersonal skills.
Let us go over each one of these constituents so that you can understand their importance in an enterprise.
Collaborative efforts:
You will need to create a synergy amongst the various stakeholders of your business. You will have to work in unison to attain the common goal. Teamwork requires that each one responds to each other's ideas. Learn to develop group goals for which you will have to take the collaborative approach.
Collaborative efforts include:
Teamwork - work as a team with other members; share the workload, assist others in the team to accomplish the tasks.
Instructions - bring clarity in instructions to avoid ambiguity and misinterpretations, tutor and train other team members to gain knowledge, work towards a common business goal.
Decision making - involve your team to come to an appropriate decision in the best interest of your trade, own up the outcome of the decision.
Distribution of work - ensure fair distribution of workload within your group, delegate authority and responsibility to make independent decisions.
Leadership qualities:
As a captain of your business you should be able to navigate your team towards the attainment of common goals. To be an effective leader you will need to develop good communication skills, personal appeal, high professional expertise and the ability to respect others ideas.
To develop leadership qualities you should:
Be capable of motivating others; develop a positive attitude; focus on finding solutions.
Encourage others to come up with better results; instill a feeling of confidence; listen to what others have to say; give constructive feedback.
Be supportive and not start finding faults with others in case collaborative efforts do not bring the desired results.
Intercommunication endeavors:
If should be your endeavor to establish well-defined communication with your clients, team members and employees. Nurture these contacts persistently to strike mutual benefit.
To evolve intercommunication endeavors you should:
Develop and sustain the contacts; interact with people having common business interests.
Keep a database of people who might prove useful in furthering your business cause; look out for those who have already established themselves in similar business.
Respect and use your contacts ethically so as to not to harm each other's business interests.
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