Building good relationships with Co-Workers

Posted on June 10, 2016 by AAFP - Accounting And Finance Professionals

People you work with are the ones that you are spending the most time in your life. They
share your experience and a lot of moments and that is why it’s very important to get along
with them. Your relationship with your colleagues may affect you and your business more
than you think. On the one hand, employees are willing to have a lot to submit at work, if
they are the part of a good team and they agree with associates. So often you hear someone
says “job and salary are not the best for me, but the team I am working with, we have great
relations and make great atmosphere.”

On the other hand, if you do not agree with your associates and suffer bad atmosphere, then
your job will unwittingly become extremely difficult, even though it might not be and you
usually love to do it. You will start to be late at work, to lose motivation, to become
withdrawn and apathetic. Disagreement with colleagues often may be the reason that
employees start looking for another job and change their working city, although usually no
need for that. Also, if you are spending a lot of great time with colleagues, they can
unconsciously delay a better and more demanding job, which would allow them to advance in
their careers.

People often don’t attach such importance to interpersonal relationships within the company.
However, if the work is not carried out properly, if you exceed deadlines and poor quality is
realized, the reason should be sought precisely in this segment, in human factor. If
cooperation between employees is better and more dynamic, then the job will be faster, easier
and more efficient to perform, but everybody will feel the satisfaction from customers, and
managers, to employees themselves.
Be a team player
In some part of your life you have probably been in a similar situation, even if you only play
basketball or volleyball with friends. You and your co-workers are players in a team similar
to the team that plays a basketball game. You need to design your strategy, adding your
teammates the ball, constantly thinking about where they are, what their capabilities are and
how to best take advantage of your position to achieve the goal together. Imagine that your
office is basketball court, and your colleagues are teammates in the game. It is very important
to know your colleagues and to establish good communication. If you know the quality and
the specific skills of each colleague, and how to use it well in the joint conduct of business,
then your team work will be very successful. In modern business, team work is very much
appreciated. Employers ask their employees to be able to realize tasks in successful
cooperation with their colleagues. Teams of employees who work on a project are formed
very often, and this is increasingly becoming the mold of modern business.

To acquire the characteristics of a team player and master the skills of team cooperation, it is
enough to enroll in any group or team. This can be a sports team, group or association that
deals with some cultural or artistic activities or something similar. It doesn’t matter what you
are doing; it is important that you are in communication with as more coworkers as you can
and to jointly reach goals.

Do not hesitate to share your ideas and suggestions with colleagues. If you participate more,
you will create more positive and dynamic atmosphere in which you will gradually emerge
more ideas. Communication among the participants will be much better, and you will
increasingly feel better working together with colleagues. Of course, sometimes it is
necessary for you to stand out and independently resolve a work task. Initiative, the ability to
independently solve the problem also leadership skills are well suited for certain types of
work, and sometimes it is also necessary to use that to become the leader of the team.
However, teamwork is what is essential for the job and the company’s functioning. One man
cannot do everything alone, nor be as creative as a group of well-organized and
interconnected people can. In the team you will learn to help your associates, but also to seek
and get help when you require. When you successfully start to make a function in a team,
you’ll feel right pleasure and benefits of such mode, every job will look easier and more
interesting.

What contributes to one team to become more successful?

Developed sense of belonging to a unity

The feeling of belonging to a team increases when its members have a sense to work and
contribute to something that is more important than their individual work. Therefore, it is
important that employees who make team are familiar with the company, its history, the
character of the market and the products or services it receives, as well as to understand the
importance and role of the team for the progress of the company.

Faith in the expertise of all employees who make team

The members estimate value of every person in the team on the basis of expertise, knowledge
and the reputation. If the colleagues in the team are honorable, each member will have a
stronger sense of honor and the pleasure that belongs to the team. It is therefore necessary
that every member, after entering into the team, is presented in the best way and his/her
achievements are highlighted.
Good communication among members
How successfully solve different assignments will depend of how to communicate with
members of the team. If there is a communication problem, we should help them repair it and
point them to different forms of communication (a better communicate visually, some
auditory, someone using gestures and so on).

Understanding the roles in team

It is important that each member understands what exactly his/her role in the team is, so
he/she could invest a maximum of effort to accomplish its task and meet the expectations of
the associates. It will be useful that each member of the team get a clear explanation from
supervisor of what constitutes his/her contribution and how useful he/she could be for the
functioning of whole team.

Team building
It is desirable that team members spend some free time together, socializing and having fun.
This can be realized as a shorter travel that can be organized, and the members of the team
that will go together (hiking, camping, rural tourism).

Introduction to common goals

Each team member must have a clear vision of what are the goals of the team and what they
are fighting for. It will be better to present their future results in more details because they
will be easier focused on their tasks.

A sense of responsibility for the results you made as a team

If employers feel responsibility for what they do, they will make a greater effort to succeed. It
is necessary that team members have the feeling that for their job is not responsible company
or anyone else in the team, but they alone. No matter how common goals and teamwork are
hard to achieve, every team member must feel and individual responsibility for the part of the

work that carries out.