Simple Behaviors that Build Respect Among Co-Workers
Janet Parnes equips professionals with skills that turn conversations into valuable connections with co-workers, colleagues, and clients.
A graduate of The Protocol School of Washington®, she brings 15 years of experience working with clients from a range of industries including higher education, real estate, STEM, law, and architecture.
Janet’s background in sales and public relations, combined with her speaker training, positions her to create a paradigm shift in the way we create meaningful professional connections.
Janet formed her company Janet .L. Parnes, Etiquette Consultant in response to a growing need: we can contact people just about anywhere, anytime—yet, we’re losing the art of making connections. This is costing us, for connections are critical in achieving our career goals.
As a professional storyteller, Janet entertains and educates audiences with tales of missteps, misspeaks, and misunderstandings - some of them her own!
Are you frustrated by a team of co-workers who appear to care about their work but not each other?
This can have a chilling effect on the individual as well as team performance and the organization’s success.
Thoughtless behaviors such as routinely showing up late to meetings, leaving common spaces littered, and gossiping create sloppiness, feelings of under appreciation, and resentment. These chisel away at the ‘We’re in this together” spirit, a hallmark of a collaborative, productive workforce.
Although no malice may be intended, rudeness weakens trust. As example, co-workers aren’t certain they can rely on each other for help through rough patches; they wonder if everyone’s pulling their weight. Rudeness breeds discontent. This stunts team performance and seeps into client interactions. This can sully the organization’s reputation and endanger its revenue potential.
A Gallop poll showed that employees who do not have friends at work are more likely to feel unsatisfied and shy away from engaging. Absenteeism and turnover rates rise; productivity sinks.
When co-workers do not show they care about each other, both they and the organization that employs them are less likely to reach their full potential. Everyone loses out.
Areas Covered
- Listening to co-workers so they feel heard
- Simple quick ways to make a co-worker feel acknowledged
- Behaviors that create distractions at meetings/online meetings
- Diplomacy in dealing with gender/cultural differences
- Body language that drives co-workers away
- Asking for help - what to do first
- Delivering bad news
- Smartphone practices that make others feel snubbed
- Avoiding common unconscious behaviors that create friction
Who Should Attend
- Team members
- Human Resource Professionals
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Business Owners
- Project Managers
- Entrepreneurs
- Personal Development Specialists
Why Should You Attend
Employees who put their noses to the grindstone and “get the work done” are not enough if they and the organization that employs them are to thrive. Employees need to look up and reach out – invest time and energy in their workplace peers. They need to turn workers into co-workers.
The alternative is a team of frustrated, isolated people who will never reach their potential. Nor will the organization that employs them.
A SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) study shows that such employees inject surfing the Internet, shopping online, watching movies, and even sneaking a drink into their workday. This makes sense. There’s little motivation to do more than the minimum if they feel their contributions, and thus they, don/t really matter. If they feel invisible.
Management can look forward to compromised productivity, high turnover, and revenue that never hit the target.
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