Week 10 (People Work) Michael

Michael Berens
People Work
03/26/09- Thursday

Michael’s Personal Top tips for working with people
1. Be a listener: being listened to is one of the biggest satisfaction. Just knowing someone has heard and understands you can change a hot temper to a calm and collective conversation. If someone is sad, they just want to be listened to as well. Listening and then learning to speak in the right time is a lesson that we all will always learn.

2. Find common ground: Finding commonality between each other is that start of true connection. Even if you are completely different people, genders, whatever, there is always at least one thing you have in common. Take mothers for example. Everyone came from a mother; therefore you can talk about mothers. Once you dig into the minor subjects it can lead to find other commonality, which will help later on. It is much harder to hatefully fight someone you know and love than it is to fight someone random.

3. Put yourself in the footwear of another. When there are disagreements or off putting, out yourself in their mind. Think about what they are feeling and thinking about that lead to this. Maybe there are external situations that we cannot know about. If they are moody, maybe they have had a rough day and need a friend. If they are weird maybe they have not had good social contact with other humans and need a friend. Putting yourself in their footwear can lead to a true relationship. After all Jesus walked in our footwear and out skin just to have a relationship with us.