Relationship Building
When in a leadership position, building relationships is an important aspect. These relationships create a network that can be used in times of need, creating change, and increase overall confidence between yourself and your peers, clients, leaders, and subordinates. Throughout this week’s reading we learned about the many relationship building strategies. This journal will outline my relationship building strategies, both within and outside work situations, and what happens when my strategies do not work.
Relationship Building
Relationship building is something that a political navigator has no trouble doing. They know which people to talk to, which to avoid, and which will do them favors and help them throughout
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As a new leader these strategies are ones that I will have to work on before I fully employ them. Two of these strategies that would work best with me are developing mutual interests with clients and becoming a collaborator (Gilley, 2006). Developing interests with clients allows me to ask open ended questions that help to search for common interests. These interests help build rapport, which can help me develop new ideas or improvements for the organization. Becoming a collaborator includes tailoring interactions to the audience (Gilley, 2006). I am constantly doing this because not everyone is going to react the same way, want the same information, or care about the subject. When common interests are found the relationship and interaction between myself and others will become more productive or meaningful.
Outside Situations
All of these strategies can be used outside of work as well. This, I believe, is because humans need interactions and relationships to be happy. One does not have to be cut and dry at all times. It is finding a balance between professionalism and normalcy. Understanding the common interest between yourself and those around you, will help to increase the quality of time being spent with others. While one does not need to be politically savvy around their non-work friends, it can improve their thoughts toward you and your family. Observing your
The article, Relationship Building with Teacher Colleagues by Jordan Catapano discusses the importance of spending time building relationships with
You must make connections to even get a job. To pass legislature, you must be patient and willing to talk to a lot of people one-on-one to get it done. Retail politics always comes in handy. When dealing with one person at a time, you must remember to focus on what issues affect them and what is important to them in order to to gain their support. You must make deals with others and follow through on promises you make. There is almost nothing as important in political connections as trust. Chris Matthews makes very clear in this book that relationships are the foundation of a career in Washington. Nothing could get done without the alliances we see in Washington
Human relationships are a fundamental part of life. Studying relationship development is key to understanding why people interact the way they do. To figure this out, it is important to understand how relationships change as we grow older, how the internet affects our relationships, how we remember important points in a relationship, and how rituals affect the quality of a relationship. Learning how these aspects of relationship development work together to build and maintain relationships between couples and friends are important in understanding where these relationships go wrong or why they last.
It is important for a politician to meet many other politicians and make allies and friends. President Lyndon Johnson was used this and got to know every politician face to face by taking multiple showers each day and brushing his teeth various times a day again and again just so he would be presentable when getting closer to others. He believed the personal connections he made would help him capture their attentions which would benefit him overall as he rose to the top in government positions. Lyndon's strategy was called retail politics, which later inspired author Chris Matthew as he used
Task 3 – Understand how to develop and maintain effective working relationships to achieve objectives
This week we have been really discussing some interesting topics on the birth of leadership, also the core skills along with the mandatory skills that compliment excellent leadership. From the reading, the four equally important part’s that displays excellent leadership consists of: Firstly, Building Relationships. I can agree, “Relationships should be the primary focus of any leadership position. When people become the key to the organization, decision-making is shared, vision is collaborative; the team that is correctly aligned becomes “ fiercely competitive and an ultimate high-performance entity”(Guttman, 2009). In my opinion, this is so true about the importance of building good positive working relationships. Building relationships is all about perception and attitude. If you are the new teacher or administrator on the job, obviously no one knows who you are and because people do not know who you are, those people may or may not be reluctant to change or to buy-in to your vision. If you exploit your expectations, your vision and involve them in the process, then your colleagues will trust
This can be done by having communication with other people in an organization. Effective communication ensures understanding between a leader and employees. Two-way communication or interactions is fundamental for a successful organization because interacting and listening to employees’ ideas help to build trust and respect between a leader and employees. Establishing strong relationships with people out of the organization is also essential. That is to say, network connections with people from different experiences and backgrounds help to share ideas, values, principles, and achieve the success of the organization (Rogers & Smith,
One instance I can recall when I displayed relationship management was during high school when I was on a club team. The team was comprised of 15 young men who were all unfamiliar with one another, which lead to a lot of conflict in the beginning. This is because many of us came from different backgrounds and personalities. This meant we clashed many times and had many conflicts due to high competitiveness. As we started to understand each other, our bond as a team continued to strengthen. Therefore we were able to communicate and handle our conflicts effectively from there after. It was crucial for us to come together and build our relationship and understand our to manage each teammates personalities to achieve our team goals. Our coaches also played a major role and provided great leadership.
Occasional jealousy and possessiveness in all relationships are quite common, and they are known to be healthy also. When your partner goes “ green” every time you communicate with the opposite sex, then it is not normal and might give way to relationship problems (Dating Women, 2010-2011, p. 2). Jealously and over possiveness can easily be handled. If you are the culprit then you need to admit that you are being unreasonably jealous. Maybe some bad experiences from previous relationships are clinging on to you. If it is your partner who is jealous or over possessive then you need to communicate with him and try to know his reason for being insecure. Take appropriate steps to strenghten his faith and belief (Dating Women, 2010-2011, p.2).
When communicating, people naturally need to know what they are doing and where they stand.
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." – Theodore Roosevelt. This is extremely accurate for business owners; having the capacity to build and maintain good relationships is crucial for any business as it allows them to succeed. A key element in a healthy relationship is transparency. Maintaining transparency in a relationship is vital because it enables individuals and companies to preserve positive relationships and associations. Transparency builds trust within a group of people and prevents disputes. Regardless of an individual’s personal affairs, they should maintain positive professional relationships. For the business persona,
on age-related tendencies (Lechnyr). The preschool period involves the use of negotiation and bargaining. For example, four-year-olds are not distressed by separation if they and their caregiver have already negotiated a shared plan for the separation and reunion (Lechnyr). These social skills as explained by Lechnyr, later develop through the years as the child transforms to an adult . As children move into the school years at about six years old, most develop partnership with parents, in which each partner is willing to compromise in order to maintain a gratifying
When employees encounter problems within an organization, they take one of two approaches. They keep the problem to themselves, hoping to exit the challenge as a hero or savior, or they reach out to their, peers, key business partners, other groups, mentors, and senior leaders to help them overcome the issue. In all instances, the second approach is preferred as it is the best approach for dealing with organizational issues. For one, organizations responsible for creating problems are near always the best equipped to solve those issues. Second, organizational relationships create and contain the tremendous potential for creating better outcomes. This potential is measured by the type of interactions and the relationship networks that employees create within organizations.
Relationship-building: Having good relationships – trust, mutual respect, understanding – are intangibles that develop and evolve over time, based on individual and collective experiences and interactions. For this reason, we have to engage with stakeholders at a much as early as possible.