Emotional Intelligence and Building Effective Business Relationships

Tips On Building Effective Business Relationships and Great Personality for Self In Business

Emotional Intelligence, EI

In building effective business relationships, there is a need to increase our level of emotional intelligence. These are some of the skills in emotional intelligence that you need;

1 – Respect – Shows that you are able to work in environments that consistently change or take on a new role if needed.
2 – Trust – Let’s others show their weaknesses and be vulnerable without fear that they will be judged or ridiculed.
3 – Communication skills – This skill shows that you have the ability to present, persuade and negotiate.
4 – Listening skills – Shows that you have the desire to learn and problem solve.
5 – Conflict management skills  – Shows you have the ability to manage conflict, inspire people and supervise.
6 – Empathy / learning how to validate your partner – Shows that you operate well in group settings.

Emotional Intelligence, EI is the ability to accurately identify and understand our emotions and the ability to use that awareness skill to manage our emotions and the emotions of those around us. Without this important and learn-able skill, we cannot build good and lasting relationships.

We use intelligence (IQ) to get into relationships but we need EI to stay in those relationships. It helps us to understand pain areas, and motivate trust and transparencyh. These are common in all social or business relationships. It shows that you have the desire to learn and solve problems.

Transparency 

Transparency is important in building effective business relationship. Wikipedia states that Transparency (pertaining to human behavior) implies openness, communication, and accountability. Employing transparency allows us to have connected, authentic relationships that limit the instance in which we experience unnecessary dramas and distrust.

When we do problem solving, any lack of transparency makes it harder to know important facts. Reaching a solution to produce a desired win-win result becomes greatly hindered.  Transparency doesn’t necessarily mean sharing every detail of everything but there should be a balance between never sharing anything and feeling obliged to share everything.

There’s five things that occur when we have transparency in our relationships.

1 – You’re being true to yourself

2 – You become more confident in your courage to be honest

3 –  You step out of your emotions dramas

4 – You create deeper meaningful interaction

5 – It helps you to become more conscious of all the coincidences that are guiding us towards our destiny and the miracle that occur.

Effective communication is the ability to present, persuade, and negotiate. It is also about the art of listening and talking, and the act of mutually disclosing inner feelings and thoughts to others. As people become better communicators, they become great in everything from love relationships to business to selling.

Effective communication is the live-wire of every relationship. Engaging in both ways communication with effective listening will build emotional and psychological connection on subjects  that need realization and building effective business relationships. It involves tapping into people’s core desires, and having a dialogue not a monologue.

Listening

Active Listening sounds so simple, yet many people either lack it or confuse it with just nodding in a conversation, constant ‘uhu’-like agreement.  It’s about being fully present in the conversation, as well as being reflective to the other party in the conversation.

Active listening is a conscious decision to hear what people are truly saying. It helps to understand, analyze, and help in a meaningful way by being a person who listens to the needs and perception of others, with the ability to add value where appropriate. Listening is an utmost factor (a good listener embrace attraction). Furthermore, attraction invest into trust. Trust forms the pillar into building effective business relationships

Genuineness

People need to be comfortable and reassured. They don’t always need to just be “sold.” Knowing and feeling clearly why you want to build each relationship in the first place. Investing in them by always being the one who owes least to the other either emotionally, intellectually, or financially. Seeking to understand, connect, serve, & find appreciation for the other person with no strings attached. Have a giving attitude. Connect with people with a giving mindset, wanting to truly add value to them.

Patience

Patience and commonality – Patience because it takes time to build trust and strengthen bonds. Any relationship at first can be awkward, but what is important is to remember that we are on this earth to create opportunities together. But any relationship begins by finding similarities in mission, passion, and purpose. To do that, we need to actively listen as mentioned earlier. There are five allies to patience.

• Appreciation for each other
• Shared things (profession, interest, etc. anything that bring you closer to each other)
• Effort to develop and nurture the relationship.
• Being considerate not conceited.
• Building trust not tension

Here’s how to earn Trust

1. Do not lie
2. Do not cheat
3. Do not speak badly about people behind their backs
4. Openly admit your mistakes and never blame others for them
5. Give trust
6. Be humble
7. Be there for others
8. Give people a chance they deserve

When you’re torn between being polite and being honest, err on the side of sincerity. It’s better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those with the courage to tell the truth.