{"id":1372,"date":"2013-04-11T01:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T06:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2013-04-01T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:38:55","slug":"go-to-their-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/04\/go-to-their-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Go to Their Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>To work with other persons, establish trust. One technique is to go to their place and show a genuine interest in them as a person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone asked me recently about how I would influence other people in an inter-department project. My reply was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>establish trust<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the next question was, &#8220;How?&#8221; The answer to that was a bit longer, but the essence is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>go to their place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the &#8220;secret.&#8221; I meet personally with a person who I want to influence. I meet them in their place &#8211; their office, their lab, their workbench, their warehouse. They are comfortable in their place. I sit and relax (in order to relax in foreign surroundings, you have to be comfortable with yourself, but that is the topic of another blog post one day). I look around their place and ask them about what their things.<\/p>\n<p>Questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who is in that photo?<\/li>\n<li>What is that cabin in that photo?<\/li>\n<li>Where did you get that pen and notebook?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not very exciting, is it?<\/p>\n<p>I try to establish that I am just another person like they are just another person. We are put into a working situation and are paid to do something good for the greater organization.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we do? We can,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Act like spoiled brats and fight<\/li>\n<li>Act like normal persons and work together<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I like number 2. Most persons do. Most persons will when they decide that I am just another person, just like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips To work with other persons, establish trust. One technique is to go to their place and show a genuine interest in them as a person. Someone asked me recently about how I would influence other people in an inter-department project. My reply was: establish trust Of course, the next question was, &#8220;How?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,67],"tags":[154,133,187],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-people","category-work","tag-communication","tag-people","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}