This document discusses how to build relationships in different contexts including with direct reports, upwards in the organization, with customers and suppliers, and across the organization with peers. It provides tips for each such as listening, being honest, and treating customers and suppliers as partners. It also notes common mistakes like taking before giving and challenges of building relationships compared to older simpler models of telling others what to do. The overall message is the importance of building relationships in various contexts through trust, communication and collaboration.
4. 4 KEY SKILLS TO STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS
WITH DIRECT REPORTS:
Building Trust
Listening
Delivering Effective Feedback
Managing Challenging Conversations
Building Stronger Work Relationships
5. SOME COMMON MISTAKES IN BUILDING
RELATIONSHIP AT WORK:
Taking before giving.
Being an opportunistic relationship builder.
Seeing relationship building as playing office politics.
Forgetting about results.
Limiting your relationship circle.
6. It helps if manager and direct report can make a mutual choice
when entering into their formal relationship.
General manager should provide challenging tasks, set high
standards, and enforce accountability.
General manager needs to show an interest in the personal and
professional development of subordinates.
10. CEOS
Have their board of directors
Major stockholders
regulators
11. ASPECTS OF HOW DIVISION MANAGERS
RELATE TO THEIR VARIOUS SUPERIORS ARE
ALWAYS IMPORTANT ASSETS.,
ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT ARE:
An ability to persuade higher level managers
to
endorse division proposals for resources to support
research, new products, capital pro- grams, shift in
strategy or organization
12. An ability to secure from superiors rewards and
other signs of recognition for
achievements
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coaching and other support
the divisions
that
provides
14. Listen More Than You Talk
Make A Routine
Be Honest
Take Notes
Give More than You Receive
Be Proactive
Be Real
Turn Blunders into Opportunities
Make it Personal
Meet Face-to-Face
16. PARTNERSHIPS
People are key.
Build and develop relationships.
Relationships between customer and supplier need to be
collaborative, not necessarily contractual:
Open; trust; win-win; communication.
17. Customers and suppliers should be treated as partners in the activity:
Focused on outcome; some contact with target
customers; shared responsibility.
Fit with the organisational culture:
Level of formality; sponsorship from senior
management; style.
18. THE LAPSES AND DIVERSIONS ON THE PART OF THE
SUPPLIERS THAT CAN AFFECT THE RELATIONSHIP:
Satisfaction: The customer expects overall attention and
convenience in all departments to ensure smooth fulfillment of his
needs. This includes quality, timeliness, ease of access and
commitment of conditions.
Competitiveness: Customers assess the supplier through
competition based on the pricing and quality of their products, its
reliability, its technological background and industry trends.
19. Innovation: Customer knows and lives the products more than the
supplier does, as he is working on them and is in a position to
suggest innovation and development for the products.
Finance: Suppliers have to be ready for providing financial
advantages as loan, extended terms on purchases and postponement
of debt when demanded by their loyal customers particularly at their
growth stage or when they are into a financial crisis.
20. Essential factors for the customers to create and
maintain a healthy relationship with the suppliers.
Payments always on time
Provide adequate flexibility
Personalize the relationship
Share information
Be a demanding but a valued customer
22. STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP FORMS:
Forming basic research relationships with other companies,
focused on new materials and manufacturing methods
Developing new sales channels in foreign markets
Developing joint ventures to develop new markets
23. Many large companies have found it necessary and desirable to
provide quality-related training to consultation to their
suppliers-especially small suppliers who do not have their own
training staff
Many companies have formed industry consortia to fund
research and development activities that they cannot afford to
do alone
Other companies have formed university-based consortia to fund
research into future management, information technology,
engineering, or manufacturing technologies and practices
25. In many ways, the old world was simpler:
Telling direct reports what to do is a lot simpler than developing
relationships with partners
Being able to work in a silo is a lot simpler than having to build
relationship with peers across the organization
Selling a product to customer is a lot simpler than providing an
integrated solution
26. Getting the lowest price from suppliers is a lot simpler than
understanding their complex business needs
Competing with customers is a lot simpler than having to
develop a complex customer-supplier-competitor relationship