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Four Tips to Build Better Relationships With Your Coworkers

Forging meaningful relationships with your coworkers benefits you in a myriad of ways. You gain the fulfillment of personal interaction with others, something highly important in this COVID-19 era of remote working. Additionally, you also get to build your professional network. A large network serves as a source of advice for difficult professional problems or even potential job opportunities.

With an eye towards building long-lasting bonds with coworkers, check out these helpful tips. Any lifelong professional career greatly benefits from sincere relationships with others. Don’t let working from a home office prevent you from forging the bonds you need for success!

1. Regularly Take Virtual Lunch Breaks With Coworkers

Coworkers tend to forge bonds whenever talking about topics not related to work. Those proverbial watercooler discussions apply in this case. Obviously, this interaction becomes more difficult when working remotely.

Because of this situation, invite a coworker to a virtual lunch or an in-person outing if working in an office. Make it a point to chat about things unrelated to work. Use either a video chat or instant messaging for this purpose, if not meeting in person.

2. Host Afterhours Chat or Gaming Sessions

Somewhat related to the virtual lunch, online chat sessions also serve to build camaraderie among coworkers. Even a videoconference works well for this purpose. Engage in some casual gaming, host a trivia night, or just spend some time talking and forging new friendships.

3. Showing Empathy Also Helps Build Relationships

Whenever a coworker has a difficult problem outside of the office, being empathic helps forge a relationship with them. So pay attention to the moods of your fellow employees. Granted this is an easier process when working in an office together. However, whenever you notice a coworker being less communicative online or in person, don’t hesitate to reach out to them.

4. Schedule a Traditional Face-to-Face Meeting

Of course, hosting a face-to-face meeting with one or more of your coworkers works well for relationship building. Obviously, if most of your coworkers live all over the country (or the world!) it becomes impractical. In that scenario, virtual events remain the best option.

Still, personal meetings let you catch up with coworkers, especially if you formerly worked together in the office. Obviously, make sure to adhere to all current COVID-19 safety policies in your region.

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