How important are the relationships you have with your team-mates?
It is estimated that an average employee spends 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. Hence, it is important for you to examine the quality of relationships you have with colleagues in your workplace. Even when working remotely.
Good and positive relationships at work helps you to build positive skills and collaborate better with teammates in the workplace. For example, the more comfortable you are with other members of your unit or organization, the more confident you will be when sharing your opinions on an idea. Also, if you feel supported at work, you are likely to put your ideas into action. You are also more likely to get additional support when things don’t work out as planned.
Good relationship in the workplace promote:
- better communication
- better collaboration
- better problem-solving skills
- better creativity
- manage failure
So what has this got to do with your heart health?
In this article, we’ll uncover the health benefits of a good relationship in the workplace.
Benefits of good workplace relationship to your heart
- Better communication helps you to promote positive emotions. This enhances your happiness, productivity and better heart health
- Better collaboration helps you to build a strong social support . This will help you to get support with your tasks and also stay on track with your health goals. This also helps you to manage stress and manage negative emotions that may lead to depression and anxiety.
- Better problem solving skills help you to accomplish more with less pressure. This helps you to work together with team mates to identify problems and map out the steps that you need to solve the problem together. This helps the team to divide the problem solving steps into different tasks that are matched with the different skills that team mates bring to the workplace. This helps to minimize the physical and mental exertion that comes with difficult tasks that are beyond the skill set of team mates. This helps to reduce work related stress and poor heart health.
- Better creativity helps you to come up with ideas that solve problems. Creativity produces happy and positive emotions which improves well being including heart health.
- Managing failure means getting support from teammates when your ideas don’t work out well. It also involves learning from the mistakes that happened without any blaming or finger pointing. This helps you to ward off the negative emotions, stress, depression and anxiety. This improves heart health.
Positive relationships at the workplace influence your lifestyle for the better. You are more likely to discuss health goals, share healthy meals together, play together and work out together.
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Mastroianni, K., & Storberg-Walker, J. (2014). Do work relationships matter? Characteristics of workplace interactions that enhance or detract from employee perceptions of well-being and health behaviors. Health psychology and behavioral medicine, 2(1), 798–819. https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2014.933343
