Well business is business but it is still done person to person. Relationships are fundamentally important and business is won and lost every day no the strength of relationships no matter how good the accountants spreadsheet looks. Though I’m not advocating “Bye room” which just sounds a bit cheesy and naff, I still think it is fundamentally important to nurture relationships with colleagues, clients and customers even if they are the type of person you might not have anything to do with outside of work. That will do nothing but help you out in what it is you’re trying to achieve which is ultimately good for the business overall.
You spend more time at work and interacting with work colleagues than any of your family or friends so is only beneficial to have a cordial and enjoyable relationship with them and make the process of work or business as fun and sociable as possible. Otherwise life becomes very miserable very quickly.
One of or work internal ‘well being’ surveys has a question “do you have a best friend at work” and it is a strange question indeed but studies have shown that business where the employees are also friends to some extent perform better and the mental wellbeing of their employees is also better, so this stuff is science and not just fluff. People who have high ’emotional intelligence’, or EQ, are more successful, more successful than those which high IQ. You can be intelligent but so what. Plenty of thick people are successful and plenty of intelligent people are broke holding down crap jobs.
Bye thread…