Improving Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal relationships are so important to all human being. Even loners have friends and family in this world. The question is whether how we maintain those relationships. Losing people who are close to us is tragic but what makes it more dreadful is when we ourselves are the cause of failing our relationships. It is even worse when fail to reconcile with our friends or family due to conflicts that we were unsolved.

When it comes to interpersonal relationships in an organization, the phrase “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” really comes true. What I mean is that communicating with everyone in the office can tell who your friends are and who aren’t. Knowing who likes you and who hates could give you an idea over how you need to deal with them. Plus, it never hurts to be nice to someone. That isn’t the only reason to maintain a happy relationship with everyone in the office. When it comes to your bosses, keep them really happy cause these people are the ones paying you and keeping your reputation clean. In an instant, they fire you, demote you or suspend you if they don’t like. It may sound political but that the way life is in the working world.

I believe the main reason for maintaining a harmonies relationship with people in your work place is so that everyone recognizes each other as friends as well as coworkers. If you don’t have any friends in the work place, good luck getting by because no way anyone’s gonna care for you when you’re in a pinch. Therefore, as friends, every conflict should be worked delicately and always think about the other person when making decisions. If there is a disagreement, work things out fast because keeping things to yourself could explode later on. When that happens, it’s never pretty. Just like the players in the video.

I had always considered football clubs to be an organization because you have owners, shareholders, managers and staffs. Imagine the players as employees in a company. Each player has their role to play. They need communicate with each other for their tactics and strategy to work. If they don’t communicate, they will lose the game. Same goes for a corporate company, coworkers need to talk and discuss in a group about projects, goals strategy. If they don’t do it, nothing will get done and they all will be in trouble in the end.

In this video, for those who don’t watch football, this is basically a brief explanation about what is occurring in the video. Two players from the same team are fighting. There could several reasons why they are fighting such as stress because their team is 3 goals down and their losing, their teamwork and plays are not working, the coach is shouting at them. No matter what the reason, because they didn’t resolve their personal conflicts, these two players blamed each other and started getting physical. In football, whenever there’s a fight, the players will be shown a red card and sent off. In the end, both players were sent off and they lost the game badly. Like I said, when things explode, it’s never pretty.