Effective Working Relationships

Develop positive relationships with the individuals you interact with

Trust, teamwork, communication and respect are keys to effective working relationships.

Develop positive relationships with the individuals you interact with at work to make your job more enjoyable and productive.

Networking

Online or face to face learning

Reading

Building your professional network
(LinkedIn Learning)
Networking
University of Oxford Careers Service

 

Influencing

Online or face to face learning

Reading

Influencing essentials: influence without authority, influencing others and leading with stories
(LinkedIn Learning)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,
Robert Cialdini, 2014
Editing and proof reading made simple
(LinkedIn Learning)

To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About
Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others,
Daniel H Pink, 2012

 

Building constructive workplace relationships

Online or face to face learning

Reading

Managing up, down and across the organisation
(LinkedIn Learning)

Listening skills
Skills you need

Working with difficult people
(LinkedIn Learning)
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human
Behaviour, or How to Understand those who Cannot be Understood,
Thomas Erikson, 2019

 

Self-diagnosis tool


To identify areas you need to develop download the self-diagnosis tool

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Contact us


If you have any feedback or questions about the toolkit please email us at pod@admin.ox.ac.uk.