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Refining Employee Relationships - Getting To The Bottom Line

Guest post by: Martin Haworth

Article Overview: When we are managers, supervisors and leaders, we build workplace relationships - and we do it for a reason. We want to achieve successes and we need to do this through our people. This is the bottom line for the interactions we take our part in...

Refining Employee Relationships - Getting To The Bottom Line

The purpose of relationship building in the workplace is pretty simple really. There is value for all sides of the equation and within that, it's important to acknowledge that there is a bottom line. As employees; indeed as business owners, managers and team leaders, we are all in it for something, because the most of us need the work we do.

When we attend work, we do so for some pretty basic reasons. We want shelter to keep us from the elements. We want to be fed and kept healthy. In modern societies we are very fortunate that these are pretty much covered off for most of us.

So we need more. The basics - the core rewards that work provides us with - are sufficient to provide the minimum we need. If that was all we went to work for, well then, that's pretty much sorted!

The more we need is the cerebral value that work provides for us. The stimulation of the work we do provides a healthiness that is not measured by outward disease. Our mental well-being is provided for by finding stimulating challenges that we enjoy and get personal satisfaction from.

Work is not about material reward alone.

When we manage others, we take that on as a stimulating challenge that gets our juices flowing, so we too are satisfied from the fulfillment that we get from the achievements we make.

Both sides achieving successes in their own personal challenges, are leveraged by organizations to ensure that results from the whole, go to meet and exceed the results that need to drop out for the financial bottom line.

If managers and their employees have personal goals they want to achieve and these are aligned with the needs of the bigger organization, then we are all in business pulling together.

The glue that binds us is the way we communicate together. And we communicate most effectively by having close working relationships that enable us to make the best outcomes possible, where everyone is a winner.

That bottom line for the relationships we build is the pleasure - the joy even - we get from achieving what we want from the work we do.

It isn't just about financial reward. It isn't about getting a company car that's a bit bigger. It's not about the pension pot we build.

Relationships enable us to work together towards a common goal. The purpose of the relationships we co-create, is the bottom line for all of us, which is very personal, yet always contributes to the outcome our employers expect of us too.

So we are all winners together.

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