Building Connections with Coworkers

Name: Building Connections with Coworkers
Author: Tremika Cleary

Learn relationship-building skills to foster healthy workplace connections.

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Course: On-Demand

(bright music) In this course on building connections with coworkers, we'll explore relationship building skills. You'll also learn the importance of active listening and how to improve social interactions with colleagues while working remotely. Think about some of your current relationships. What are some of the characteristics you regularly exhibit that helped you build and maintain those connections? Relationships are built on things like self-awareness, mutual respect, trust, and effective communication. If someone asks you to describe yourself in one to three words, what would those words be? Your character traits determine who you are and no matter your title and role, those traits are always on display. Your characteristics typically assist you with choosing the people you connect with. We generally connect with people we have something in common with. It's also good to have a healthy view of yourself that honestly reflects your likes, dislikes, flaws, triggers, strengths, and needs. A healthy view of yourself is the real you. Ask yourself the following questions. Do you know your worth or value? Do you see the worth and value of others? Do you discount yourself to connect with others? Do you discount others to increase your own worth or value? The answers to these questions can help determine if you need to develop self-respect. To have healthy relationships with others, it's good to have a healthy relationship with yourself first by continually demonstrating self-awareness. If the concept of self-awareness is new to you, here are some ways to begin. Set aside some time each day, avoid digital distractions, and focus on yourself. This can be meditation or just a simple exercise of taking stock of the current situation. Take a walk and tune into your thoughts and surroundings. Start a journal by jotting down your thoughts and how you feel about them. Ask someone who knows you well to provide their feedback on how you come across to others. Ask for feedback from coworkers or managers. This may be a formal review process the company already has in place. And there are some free online aptitude tests that you can take to gain even more insight on areas of strength or weakness.

Essential Provider : Tremika Cleary 6 Lessons · 15m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

As the way we work evolves, the time we spend at our jobs may become more demanding. With options such as working onsite, remotely, or a hybrid of both, the time we spend with coworkers is often more than the time we spend at home. As we invest more time and energy, our connections with coworkers may look similar to those in our personal lives. This means the relationship-building skills we utilize are essential and can assist with establishing healthy relationships with coworkers.

In this course, Building Connections with Coworkers you’ll discover relationship-building skills that may help you create healthy connections among coworkers, which can positively impact the workplace culture. You’ll learn skills that transcend all work relationships—onsite, remote, and networking with other professionals. You will learn how having a healthy view of yourself can assist with genuinely connecting with others. This course will help you build self-awareness by increasing your insight on how foundational relationship-building skills, such as respect, trust, and effective communication, can be used to sustain your work-related relationships over time.

What You'll Learn

Identify relationship-building skills that support healthy connections with coworkers
Explain the components of strong connections and how honesty and trust build relationships
Apply communication techniques and active listening to create stronger workplace connections
Describe how to develop workplace connections across onsite, remote, and networking settings
Build self-awareness and a healthy view of yourself to genuinely connect with others
Engage coworkers with honesty to sustain work-related relationships over time

Key Takeaways

Foundational relationship-building skills such as respect, trust, and effective communication help sustain work-related relationships over time.
The relationship-building skills covered transcend all work relationships, including onsite, remote, and networking with other professionals.
Having a healthy view of yourself can assist with genuinely connecting with others.
Building self-awareness increases insight into how relationship-building skills can be used to maintain workplace connections.
Creating healthy connections among coworkers can positively impact the workplace culture.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this course for?

It is for anyone who wants to build healthy connections with coworkers, including those who work onsite, remotely, or in a hybrid of both.

What will I learn in this course?

You will discover relationship-building skills that help create healthy connections among coworkers, learn how a healthy view of yourself assists with genuinely connecting with others, and build self-awareness around foundational skills such as respect, trust, and effective communication.

Do the skills apply to remote work?

Yes. The skills are designed to transcend all work relationships, including onsite and remote work, and the course includes a lesson on connections in a remote work environment.

What topics do the lessons cover?

Lessons cover relationship-building skills, communication techniques for stronger workplace connections, how active listening helps with connecting, connections in a remote work environment, engaging coworkers with honesty, and a knowledge test.

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