10 Social Skills That Help You Thrive in Your Career
If you are reading this, then it’s highly likely that most of your workday is spent dealing with people.
Immediately when you start your work for the day, you probably check email, Skype, or Slack, as you are interested in seeing if your work colleagues have something important to tell you.
Then, when you write a response, the destination for your words is another person, not just another computer.
Your main priority at work is to solve problems, which is done while collaborating on projects and hanging out with other people as part of a team.
You attend meetings during the day and get the tasks needed to do for a client from other people.
You prepare reports, prepare graphs, give presentations and do phone calls for other people.
In other words, we spend a lot of our waking hours with our work colleagues. It is even possible that we spend more time with them than with our close family members.
Becoming aware of this will help you realize the importance of having good relationships with others, especially your co-workers.
In this article, you can read some general tips that can help you improve your relationships at work, but that can be applied elsewhere as well.
