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Some of my colleagues and fellow managers are strong technical expertise as working in the advance technology industry; but they are weak in people management or managerial skills. They found hard time to start building relationship effectively with their subordinates from the first day in position. Remember your first day in your current position as a boss, you need to get acquaintance with your subordinates; to understand their names, their routines, their strengths, their weaknesses, and equally important, is their attitudes. How will they build working relationship with you? How do you understand the dimensions behind the relationship? In the following paragraph, I will show you the different steps of building relationship effectively and positively.

Relationship by Job Title

The first step is relationship by title. In the very beginning, the relationship is merely relied on your superior job title over your subordinates; for instance, manager with staff, and supervisor with worker. Your relationship or source of power is come with the subordinates’ perception of an authority attained from your superior status. Without this, you are nothing more than a peer working with them. You cannot order and instruct them.

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There are many articles written about the topic of team building, team forming, and team-work. It is no doubt that effective team is an essential and valuable asset to an organization whether it is in public or private sector. No matter the organization is operated with sound financial health or struggling for survival. In order to enhance the success of team-work, the individual team member’s behavior contributes tremendously on the smooth and successful running of a team. The following three elements are very important for result-oriented team which can be summarized as 3Cs: Coherence, Congruence, and Cooperation.

Coherence

The basic goal of a team is to fulfill a purpose and members are mutually accountable for achieving common goals. If team members do not work together to achieve a goal and without a force to pull each other in, the ultimate result will not be able to be delivered. Thus, the coherence has to be existed to maintain the spirit of team work.

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