When you apply for a job, you'll notice that aside from technical skills, managers focus more on your interpersonal skills.
Interpersonal skill is a soft skill that needs to be honed in order for a person to succeed in the workplace and, at the same time, help a business succeed.
Having a good interpersonal skill helps in how your managers and coworkers perceive you-good or bad.
It also plays a huge role in achieving happiness in your job and the workplace.
Remember that brilliance is not enough for you to succeed.
You have to know how to connect with people otherwise your career and professional life will suffer.
Success comes easy to those people who have excellent interpersonal skill.
Here are some tips for you: 1.
Appreciate others - everyone has something positive or good about them.
Don't hesitate to let them know about this.
Be generous with kind words and praises because this is one way of making people comfortable around you.
At the same time, this empowers the people around you.
When you empower people, they flock around you like moths to fire.
2.
Pay attention to other people - take notice of other people's success, difficulties and failure and give sympathy and acknowledgement accordingly.
People appreciate this.
Also, pay attention when you talk and say hi to people.
Don't forget to establish eye contact and make sure you remember their first names.
Make people feel that they matter by asking their opinion and thanking them for it.
3.
Be an active listener - listen attentively to what other people have to say.
Spend less time talking and impressing other people.
Instead, listen and be impressed.
Most of the time, when we talk to people, we're more occupied with our own thoughts.
But this should not be the case if you're an active listener.
You actually listen and pay attention to what he or she is saying and acknowledge it.
People appreciate this because they feel that they value and are empowered.
If you want to succeed, you have to make people feel empowered when they work with you.
By doing so, people will naturally gravitate towards you and the upper management will notice this.
By doing this, the company will trust you more.
4.
Stop complaining - who does not hate a chronic whiner? When you always have something negative to say about everything, you give off negative vibes.
Thus, people stay away from you.
If you want to vent, you can vent when you get home.
Write it down on your diary.
Do it somewhere else but the workplace.
5.
Bring people together - do no create a work environment where people talk behind each other's back.
Instead, be that person who helps resolve conflict and bring people together.
Be that person whom everyone trusts because you're solid and fair with everybody.