Best Life Insider

Reducing Differences At Work Place


What makes some people so easy to relate to and others a pain in the neck? The conflict in a relationship, we reason, occurs when the weight is on the differences rather than the similarities.

Reducing difference is essential when dealing with people you can’t stand. Successful communication depends on finding common ground, and then trying to redirect the interaction toward a new outcome.

Here are some ways which may help bridge differences between you and your colleagues.


Use of Communication Skills

If logically approached, using communication skills can help eradicate the problem permanently.

Blending refers to reducing the differences between yourself and other person. Redirecting is any behavior by which you use a growing rapport to change the trajectory of your interactions. These skills are not new. They are part of normal human contact. In fact, you already use them, to some extent.


Blending In

You blend with people in many ways. Visually, you may blend by altering your facial expression, degree of animation, and body posture to match the other person. Verbally, blending occurs when you try to match the volume and speed of your counterpart’s speech. And you blend conceptually with your words. When people feel like you’ve listened to them and you understand them, it's because of blending. It’s normal to blend with people whom you like or with people with whom you share an objective. Conversely, it’s equally normal ‘not to blend’ with people whom you perceive as difficult.

But the failure to blend has serious consequences, because without blending, the differences between you become the basis for conflict.


Cooperation

Human relations have no middle ground; no one cooperates with anyone who seems to be against him or her. Subconsciously or otherwise, people want to know, “Are you with me?” You come across as either hot or cold in the relationship – perceived as being on common ground or as worlds apart.
Reduce the differences

Reduce differences between yourself and other person by blending or modifying your facial expression, your gestures, your posture, the volume and speed of your speech, and your words.


Blend before you redirect

Only after establishing some rapport with a difficult person through blending will you be able to redirect the interaction, and change the trajectory toward a worthwhile outcome. In dealing with a particularly difficult person, try to recall instances in which you have successfully blended with or redirected this person in the past, and try to imagine circumstances in which you might do so again.


 Arrange by dearJulius.com Team

COMMENTS



Name

Advice,97,Balance Work & Life,50,Be a Better Manager,33,Break Room,12,Business Skills,102,Career,1547,Career Advice,298,Career Choice,125,Career Growth,180,Career Paths,24,Career Problem,8,Education,84,Entrepreneurship,39,Featured,39,Features,152,Finance,4,Internship,8,Interview Skills,37,Job Search,47,Leadership,44,Marketing,10,Money & Career,21,Resume,11,Tools & Skills,16,Training,1,Work Environment,77,
ltr
item
Career - Best Life Insider: Reducing Differences At Work Place
Reducing Differences At Work Place
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2jXiEruDAx72wH2QX8fVLi5SqWmrgTeRl6GzBkQlU9DUXh4zZgR7v3-Q6s0H-mdZbEtY8z7CcJfiT4RrMsd2OgnPFxj0k-Z8xdSFfxjP4P_2tOQQJrmuOFer8EJnkyaWZMuXY3ca2uM/s1600/dearJulius.com.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2jXiEruDAx72wH2QX8fVLi5SqWmrgTeRl6GzBkQlU9DUXh4zZgR7v3-Q6s0H-mdZbEtY8z7CcJfiT4RrMsd2OgnPFxj0k-Z8xdSFfxjP4P_2tOQQJrmuOFer8EJnkyaWZMuXY3ca2uM/s72-c/dearJulius.com.jpg
Career - Best Life Insider
https://career-bestlifeinsider.blogspot.com/2014/06/reducing-differences-at-work-place.html
https://career-bestlifeinsider.blogspot.com/
https://career-bestlifeinsider.blogspot.com/
https://career-bestlifeinsider.blogspot.com/2014/06/reducing-differences-at-work-place.html
true
4349954968455113299
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Read More Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS PREMIUM CONTENT IS LOCKED STEP 1: Share to a social network STEP 2: Click the link on your social network Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy Table of Content