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Relationship Building Values - Developing The FeelGood Factor

Guest post by: Martin Haworth

Article Overview: Positive actions come when people feel they are contributing well. Excellence of performance comes from knowing that we are recognized to be doing well. With the right relationship with your people, you can make the most of this...

Relationship Building Values - Developing The FeelGood Factor

People feel good about themselves when they feel that they are achieving success. They like to know that the challenges they have accepted are progressing and they are thought well of. Yet sometimes, for many of us, it's hard to take that objective position where we know for ourselves just how we are doing. Praising ourselves is difficult indeed. When we are responsible for others in our team, it's part of our job to get the most from each one of them. A manager's role is closely focused on our skills with our people and nothing else should get in the way of that.

By taking the time to use the relationships we have built with them to full effect, we can make sure that the feedback we give is positive and constructive for them, giving them a sense of well-being in the work they do.

These relationships cannot be created overnight. The trust that is required to ensure that what they hear you say is accepted at face-value, is an investment that doesn't come all at once.

As you make the deposits in the emotional relationships that you have between you over time, there comes an understanding that makes what you say to them be trusted and have all the more impact as a consequence.

Once the 'feelgood' factor starts to show up for them, there is a power in the new-found confidence that emanates from them.

Every action has an enhanced level of belief; every opportunity to try on new opportunities is met with possibility; every time they see something risky, there is a confidence to try that comes from their absorbed understanding of what they are capable of.

Feeling good about ourselves offers a further value that extends outside the workplace too. When we know that we're doing a good job, we take it home with us. We are happier in our other lives, because we have a new confidence.

The value of a manager taking the time to get to know us well enough, to spend time telling us how well we are doing is immeasurable, in all sorts of contexts.

For the manager, they build on potential being realized. We grow our people and squeeze out of them what's tucked away inside, making much more - almost anything indeed - possible.

Feelgood is a unique product of great workplace relationships and a manager taking the time to tell their people - authentically - that they are doing well.

From this, much more becomes possible too.

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Article Tags: confidence, feelgood, management development, relationship building, workplace relationships



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