Interpersonal Relationship is very key to organizational structure. Individuals that come together to work in a work station for the ultimate purpose of realizing organizational set goals most often come from divers social, economic and cultural back grounds.

The challenge has always been the best acceptable ways and manner to accommodate tolerate colleagues, subordinates and superiors and the public.

The challenge may be more pronounced between the junior officers or middle cadre and senior managers/Directors. Sometimes your boss can be very bossy, may be temperamental and demanding.

Successfully managing your relationship with both your boss and colleagues requires that you have a good understanding of yourself and others, particularly strengths, weakness, work styles and needs, and personal differences. This is to ensure harmonious working relationship, with a bid to achieve optimal result.

OBJECTIVES:

- Influence the behavior of others without formal power or authority.

- How to view your boss and your supervisors as customers

- Appreciate the need to give your superiors feedback and have strategies to ensure that this works

-  Create excellent communication flow between yourself and your supervisors

- Identify what motivates and demotivates your boss

- Influence management in ways that benefit both of you

- Create conditions that will earn your boss’s confidence to give the freedom to use high levels of initiatives and control over their work flow

- Develop a good interpersonal relationship between and amongst colleagues in a work place

- Understand work schedules, job description and job boundaries

- Be able to tolerate and accommodate people’s differences and preferences, within established rules and norms

- Manage and mitigate work place conflicts and frictions