Zimbabwe: Managing Relations At Work

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Often too many managers robotically follow rules instead of making decisions with their heads and hearts. According to the latest CMI research, rules, bureaucracy and targets have pushed many a manager to the edge. This has resulted in many of these managers completely switching off their natural sense of caring for others. The resultant consequence of such an approach has been, a crisis of business ethics, disengaged employees, and a total collapse of trust at the work place.

You have a tonne of experience with relationships don't you. Think about it for a moment. We start learning about relationships the time we recognise a smile means happy and a harsh voice means anger. As we grow, we develop myriads of relationships and as an adult we have made some pretty hard and fast rules about "types" of people and how we will interact with them. But the types of relationships at work are complex and more difficult to manage because you can not completely rely on your rules alone and succeed. At the workplace you have to interact with people from diverse backgrounds; superiors, peers, subordinates, vendors and clients and each have their own set of "rules" that you are going to have to deal with. Check out these tips to better understand those "rules" and use them to effectively manage your career. Here are some few tips to better navigate this "terrain".

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