WHY ARE RELATIONSHIPS IMPORTANT?
1. Relationships are the glue that hold team members together - the more solid the relationships, the more cohesive your team.
2. You can know whether you have built solid relationships with others by looking for the following 5 characteristics in your relationships.
3. Respect:-
a) Everything begins with the desore to place value on other people.
b) You should show respect to others, even before they have done anything to warrant it, simply because they are human beings.
c) You can't make a person feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.
d) Also, you should always expect to have to earn respect from others.
d) The quickest place to earn it is on difficult ground.
4. Shared experiences:-
a) While respect lays the foundation for a good relationship, shared experiences over time make you become rational with someone you don't know.
b) This is not always easy to achieve because a team keeps changing too.
c) Newer members don't have the shared experiences with the team that are needed to succeed.
5. Trust:-
a) By respecting people and developing shared experiences over time, you are in a position to develop trust.
b) Trust is essential to all good relationships, as it is a greater compliment than to be loved.
c) Without trust, you cannot sustain any kind of relationship.
6. Reciprocity:-
a) One-sided personal relationships don't last.
b) If one person is always the giver and the other is always the receiver, then the relationship will eventually disintegrate.
c) For people to improve rationally, there has to be give-and-take so that everyone benefits as well as gives.
d) This requires giving people your full attention and showing that you care for them.
e) Ask them about their hopes, desires and goals.
7. Mutual enjoyment:-
a) When relationships grow and start to get solid, the people involved begin to enjoy each other.
b) Just being together can turn even unpleasant tasks into positive experiences.
c) Few things will pay bigger dividends than the time and trouble you take to understand people.
d) Nothing else will give you greater satisfaction or bring you more happiness.