If you want to advance your career, be successful in sales, become an effective leader or have more friends and associates willing to help you out when needed, then I suggest you become a student on how to develop strong human relationships. The
“Common Sense” I am talking about today will be focused on that one point. I personally think it is just
good common sense to be nice, positive and helpful, but I know people who are just the opposite. I think it is
common sense to be open-minded, respectful, empathic, but I know people who aren’t.
Do you know someone who is unfriendly and hasn’t uttered an encouraging word to you as long as you have known them? Do you know people who are rude, impatient and mean? These are examples of people we have all encountered at some point in our life, but, in most cases, wish we hadn’t.; we could do without them. Let that phrase sink in for a moment. If people would rather do without you, you are in for a difficult life. Building strong relationships is critical to your personal and business success. Years ago I ran across an anonymous piece on how to develop strong relationships that was concise and easy to understand. Here are the major points they recommended with my “two-cents” thrown in occasionally.