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Building Strong Relationships in the Workplace

It's easy to forget that we spend over a third of our week at work, and as we spend almost another third sleeping, you can see how being happy and productive at work is important.  But we sometimes neglect to put the effort in to building strong relationships with our peers, our teams and our stakeholders. This places pressure on ourselves and in turn adds to stress, anxiety, low motivation and high levels of frustration. Here's the thing, if I was to ask you what a Sales Director, Marketing Director, Production Manager, Team Leader, CEO, production assistant, engineer, etc... does for the business, you would be able to list quite confidently their focus and responsibility. Now, if I ask you, what makes them tick?, what motivates them?, what value do they add to the team or business? its a much harder question to answer. Not because we are critical of their performance but because we generally don't concern ourselves with another employees motivation or personality. High pe