1. Take Interest in Others' Interests
Instead of spending each day refining your digital media, spend time relating to your friends, colleagues, and clients. Post brief, admiring notes. Interact with them and discover what problems you might help solve or what pursuits you might help promote; we are all driven by pain and pleasure, so such prospects exist in every person. When you are sincere in your endeavors to connect with others, chances are always higher that meaningful connection will occur. Progressive, mutually beneficial collaboration is then possible. And today, genuine connection and collaboration can quickly become infectious.
2. Smile
Emotions, it seems, are the boundless gifts (and burdens) that humans carry. This can either encourage or discourage. Your smile has a lot to say about your choice. A smile, costs nothing but gives a lot of things. It enriches the recipients without making the givers poor. It takes just a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts long. No one is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of valueless to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too exhausted to give you a smile. Give them one of your smile, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give
Smile. It increases your face value.
3. Reign with Names
We must remember that a person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together. Remember that name and use it easily, and you have paid a subtle and very effective compliment. But forget it or misspell it and you have placed yourself at a sharp disadvantage While many choose the safer alternative and address a person with terms such as "man," "ma'am," and "sir," you can place yourself in the same person's better graces by taking the time to not only remember but also use his or her name. Many of the salutation pitfalls we fear are easily avoidable with a few minutes worth of research. Aren't a few minutes of your time worth it if it
9means standing out from the crowd, if it means making a better impression than most people make on others If you want others to remember and use your name, the small investment is necessary
4. Listen Longer
The power of listening is the power to change hearts and minds. More consequentially, it is the power of giving people, what they most desire - to be heard and understood. Listening also garners great respect. It is often said that you live and learn, but perhaps an equally important lesson for all of us is that if you listen and learn you live more harmoniously.
5. Discuss What matters to them
When it comes to mattering to others, you must discuss what matters to them. Assume all else will fall on deaf or dull ears. Once you know what matters to thers through a practice of longer listening, you can then truly engage them by putting such matters at the forefront of your interactions. If you are talking business, this process is about putting the customer back into customer relationship management.
6. Leave others a little better
Don't do to others, what you wouldn't want them to do to you. Always leave people a little better, and you might be surprised how big it makes you and how far it takes you.
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