How to Work with Others, Not Around Them
Tips to improve communication
4 Tips Improve Your Workplace Experience
Whether you are starting your business or working within an established one, you are going to be interacting with other people. Dealing with customers can be easy. After all, there is a code of conduct and vigorous hours of training to prepare you for it. However, that is not the same as with your coworkers.
Companies can have the tendency to throw you into the deep end without much introduction. As part of the recruitment process, they check if you have an understanding of skill sets required to be successful, but they rarely help you to understand the unique social dynamics within their workplaces. To improve how you work with your coworkers, you should try these tips!
#1 Improve your Communication Skills
Communication is key. Simple enough. If you cannot speak to your coworkers, you are going to have a lousy workday. If you are an extrovert, improving your communication skills can be as simple as describing your thoughts more thoroughly and effectively. For introverts, improving those same skills may require indirect means of communication, such as crafting better emails, leaving better notes, or asking more effective questions. Having better communication skills will lead to a more efficient working experience.
#2 Layout Expectations
Laying out your expectations can help to streamline any process being done. If you and a coworker are working on a project together, tell them what you think should be done. That way, you are both on the same page and can do some quality work. You will be able to better coordinate, avoid repetition, and create the satisfactory result faster. This can increase productivity, efficiency, and overall enjoyment.
Think about the impacts that expectations can have on your workplace. If you never explain your desired results, what you would like done, or what you are doing, you can really run into problems. Take client management for example. If you can’t work with your colleagues and communicate, the client will suffer. It can quickly cascade into everybody doing everything for a client. Or, even worse, nobody does anything for a client! This can be disastrous in the workplace!
#3 Recognize Effort
Nobody likes to be chewed out, especially if it is wrongful. In cases where you did not layout expectations, not every failure is a result of negligence of duty. Everybody has a different perspective when approaching a task. Ultimately, this can lead to a large variation in results. While something may not have seemed good to you, it may have seemed like the best answer from somebody else's viewpoint. This same thought process extends to effort.
Just because you believe a task is simplistic and should be completed quickly does not mean everybody will have the same thoughts. Everybody has a different personality. Some individuals need cooperation to complete a task, making individual project problematic for them. Some individuals are perfectionists by nature, meaning that tasks involving mass production or lower quality work will be hard for them. This is important to keep in mind.
#4 Be Fun
Remember, at the end of the day, it is just a job. There is no reason to get upset over small details that happen at work. You should approach each day with a mentality of "I will do my best and that is enough." This mentality can do wonders for the output of you and your coworkers. Having a non-stressful workplace will actually lead people to produce better products and finish tasks to a higher degree of quality. With that in mind, the choice seems easy for how you should approach the workday. It should be fun and enjoyable!
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