Ways You Can Improve Your Social Skills for Career Success

Personal progress at your workplace goes beyond completing tasks and projects successfully and on schedule. It involves how you carry yourself at work and interact with others. To truly succeed in a career, you’ll need social skills.

Tips To Improve Your Social Skills

Probably you usually find it difficult to interact with people verbally during meetings and one-on-one interactions, below are some ways to improve that. Your social skills could help you succeed at work and build stronger connections with colleagues and customers.

Assess the Situation 

It’s important to know what skills we have and which ones we need to improve. This may feel uncomfortable, but consider reaching out to a trusted colleague to ask how you come across. Sometimes, we’re not even aware of how we carry ourselves.

Watch Others 

While at work, observe your colleagues. How do they interact with each other? What do their one-on-one conversations with customers sound like? Is there anything you can note about their body language? 

Be a Mimic 

Once you have a good sense of what others do, try adopting their habits. That might mean opening meetings by asking the person sitting beside you about their weekend. Or, you might want to smile as you pass by people. Maybe it means listening to what people say instead of focusing on what you’ll say next in the conversation.

Get Invested 

If you avoid chatter because you don’t care about your co-worker’s TV-watching habits, push back on that tendency. These moments of small talk are the pathway to deeper connections. 

Listen carefully to what people say and get invested and interested in their responses. 

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