1. Smile. Few people want to be around someone who is always down in the dumps. Do your best to be friendly and upbeat with your coworkers. Maintain a positive, cheerful attitude about work and about life. Smile often. The positive energy you radiate will draw others to you.
2. Be appreciative. Find one positive thing about everyone you work with and let them hear it. Be generous with praise and kind words of encouragement. Say thanks when someone helps you. Make colleagues feel welcome when they call or stop by your office. If you let others know that they are appreciated, they'll want to give you their best.
3. Pay attention to others. Observe what's going on in other people's lives. Acknowledge their happy milestones and express concern and sympathy for difficult situations such as an illness or death. Make eye contact and address people by their first names. Ask others for their opinions.
4. Practice active listening.Actively listening is a way of demonstrating that you intend to hear and understand another's point of view. It means restating, in your own words, what the other person has said. Your coworkers will appreciate knowing you really do listen to what they have to say.
5. Bring people together. Create an environment that encourages others to work together. Treat everyone equally and don't play favorites. Avoid talking about others behind their backs. Follow up on other people's suggestions or requests. When you make a statement or announcement, check to see that you have been understood. If folks see you as someone solid and fair, they will grow to trust you.
6. Resolve conflicts. Take a step beyond simply bringing people together and become someone who resolves conflicts when they arise. Learn how to be an effective mediator. If coworkers are bickering over personal or professional disagreements, arrange to sit down with both parties and help sort out their differences. By taking on such a leadership role, you will garner respect and admiration from those around you.
7. Communicate clearly. Pay close attention to both what you say and how you say it. Being a clear and effective communicator helps you avoid misunderstandings with coworkers. Verbal eloquence projects an image of intelligence and maturity, no matter what your age. If you tend to blurt out anything that comes to mind, people won't put much weight on your words or opinions.
8. Use Humor. Don't be afraid to be funny or clever. Most people are drawn to a person that can make them laugh. Use your sense of humor as an effective tool to lower barriers and gain people's affection.
9. Empathise. Empathy means being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand how they feel. Try to see things from another person's perspective. You can help yourself with this by staying in touch with your own emotions, since those who are cut off from their feelings are often unable to empathize with others.
10. Don't complain. There is nothing worse than a chronic complainer or whiner. If you simply have to vent about something, save it for your diary. But spare those around you, or else you'll get a bad reputation.
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Deeapli
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52. Be appreciative. Find one positive thing about everyone you work with and let them hear it. Be generous with praise and kind words of encouragement. Say thanks when someone helps you. Make colleagues feel welcome when they call or stop by your office. If you let others know that they are appreciated, they'll want to give you their best.
3. Pay attention to others. Observe what's going on in other people's lives. Acknowledge their happy milestones and express concern and sympathy for difficult situations such as an illness or death. Make eye contact and address people by their first names. Ask others for their opinions.
4. Practice active listening.Actively listening is a way of demonstrating that you intend to hear and understand another's point of view. It means restating, in your own words, what the other person has said. Your coworkers will appreciate knowing you really do listen to what they have to say.
5. Bring people together. Create an environment that encourages others to work together. Treat everyone equally and don't play favorites. Avoid talking about others behind their backs. Follow up on other people's suggestions or requests. When you make a statement or announcement, check to see that you have been understood. If folks see you as someone solid and fair, they will grow to trust you.
6. Resolve conflicts. Take a step beyond simply bringing people together and become someone who resolves conflicts when they arise. Learn how to be an effective mediator. If coworkers are bickering over personal or professional disagreements, arrange to sit down with both parties and help sort out their differences. By taking on such a leadership role, you will garner respect and admiration from those around you.
7. Communicate clearly. Pay close attention to both what you say and how you say it. Being a clear and effective communicator helps you avoid misunderstandings with coworkers. Verbal eloquence projects an image of intelligence and maturity, no matter what your age. If you tend to blurt out anything that comes to mind, people won't put much weight on your words or opinions.
8. Use Humor. Don't be afraid to be funny or clever. Most people are drawn to a person that can make them laugh. Use your sense of humor as an effective tool to lower barriers and gain people's affection.
9. Empathise. Empathy means being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand how they feel. Try to see things from another person's perspective. You can help yourself with this by staying in touch with your own emotions, since those who are cut off from their feelings are often unable to empathize with others.
10. Don't complain. There is nothing worse than a chronic complainer or whiner. If you simply have to vent about something, save it for your diary. But spare those around you, or else you'll get a bad reputation.
Cheers
Deeapli
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Hi, really nice.
But I would like to know how a person can be clever and humorous? I used to think these qualities are inborn skills, or am I wrong? Can one develop these skills?
But my question is how can one do that?
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But I would like to know how a person can be clever and humorous? I used to think these qualities are inborn skills, or am I wrong? Can one develop these skills?
But my question is how can one do that?
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Dear Deepali, Your views are appreciated and in addition always use/remeber the name of the person you are communicating. Regard Jaspal
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I know that skills like cleverness and humor may be inborn, but certainly, you can enhance them by reading good humor materials such as jokes, funny situations, etc. This will surely help you develop a good sense of humor and improve your ability to communicate effectively by selecting the right words. Reading extensively will also help you build a strong vocabulary, enabling your mind to provide the appropriate words for any situation.
Regarding being clever, it's about having a general level of knowledge and executing tasks correctly with a sensible approach. Most of us possess this general sense of thinking, but to enhance it further, one should be proactive in every aspect and strive to do the right things. I believe these steps should suffice, but if you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. Knowledge is meant to be shared, and sharing may also benefit me.
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Regarding being clever, it's about having a general level of knowledge and executing tasks correctly with a sensible approach. Most of us possess this general sense of thinking, but to enhance it further, one should be proactive in every aspect and strive to do the right things. I believe these steps should suffice, but if you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. Knowledge is meant to be shared, and sharing may also benefit me.
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This topic was very interesting and informative at the same time. However, I encounter a problem during my interactions with my colleagues. I am a person who is always smiling, funny, and humorous, and I also become friendly with people too easily, trusting them as individuals. However, every time after a while, people start taking me for granted. Maybe it's because I give everybody too much space, or perhaps I think I am an overly sweet person, and people take advantage of it, thinking they can get away easily.
Please, can somebody suggest what I should do to make my position more respectable among my colleagues?
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Please, can somebody suggest what I should do to make my position more respectable among my colleagues?
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Neha
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(Fact Checked)-The user should focus on setting boundaries and being assertive while maintaining a positive demeanor. It's essential to balance friendliness with assertiveness to prevent being taken advantage of. (1 Acknowledge point)
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Hi Deepali, I appreciate you for providing such useful tips. Can you give such tips regarding "Tips to improve networking skills"? I will appreciate if you do it.
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I think what's meant here is - a lot of us have an inherent sense of humor or cleverness which we bring out only in the company of our friends and relatives. I mean, show me a man who hasn't cracked a joke in merriment with his friends?
But most of us are hesitant to use such humor in a formal setting, say in a business meeting. The point made here is just to shake away such reservations and to be naturally humorous in formal occasions as well! What say, people?
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But most of us are hesitant to use such humor in a formal setting, say in a business meeting. The point made here is just to shake away such reservations and to be naturally humorous in formal occasions as well! What say, people?
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