Creating and Substaining Social, Personal and Professional Relationships

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Creating and Sustaining Social, Personal and Professional Relationships Written By: Brenda Lynch Written For: Professor Berry Everest College Online June 9, 2012 Creating and Sustaining Social, Personal and Professional Relationships We will be looking into five guidelines that build and substain a social, personal and professional relationship. If you have experienced any of the following relationships you will understand what we are going to be discussing. The first guideline is actively use of communication to build confirming climates. In all relationships you have to have good communication skills. If you do not communicate with each other your relationship will fail. My husband and I communicate very well. We have been married for 23 years and we sit down at least once a week to communicate with each other about things that we are wanting to do or what needs to be done. You also have to have good communication skills in your work environment. The second guideline is accepting and confirms others. Everyone wants to feel needed, so we need to be accepting. Sometimes we disagree with others and don’t like certain things they do. Being honest with others is important because we expect real friends to be sources of honest feedback, even if it isn’t always pleasant to hear. For a relationship to work, the people in it must feel confirmed. Confirmation begins with acknowledging others and accepting the validity of their needs and preferences (Wood, 2012). The third guideline is to affirm and assert yourself. You need to feel valuable in a relationship. No one person is more valuable than the other. Like I always say, they put their pants on just like I do, even though we cannot always meet the needs of everyone in a relationship, it is possible to voice our opinion to everyone. Even with assertion we do not always need to put others
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