You are meeting new people all the time, especially when you are attending something new in your life. You will meet numerous new people when you start a new job, a new project, or perhaps a new semester at school.
Here are a few principles that I follow in these situations:
1. Listen and learn, do not tell and dictate. There is nothing that a organization or social group will reject faster than a know it all. Even if you do have the answers, people will not give you credit as fact because you haven’t been around long enough to have honest appreciation for the situation.
2. Be someone people can count on. Do not over promise. People that over promise tend to please too much. If you miss to comply to any promise you will loose trust. Stephen Covey uses the metaphor of Emotional Bank Account to describe “the amount of trust thatÂ’s been built up in a relationship”. Trust is needed for a relationship to thrive. Without trust, we may manage to accommodate and endure another person, however, it cannot be mutually satisfying in the long run.
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