Growing Peer Relationships

Build relationships with your peers and you build influence within your company as it grows. You should develop a peer relationship with co-workers who are not your direct boss or your direct subordinates, such as other managers on the executive team and staff workers in different departments such as human resources, finance, marketing, QA, and customer service.

You can benefit from getting to know people you do not normally see daily. Workers from other departments can offer insights into problems faced in their teams, which can help you better understand how to modify your work to improve the quality of the overall effort. It can also lead to your helping other teams with their problems. Understanding others' problems ...

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