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Not much has changed from childhood playgrounds to the professional workplace.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Written By: Ivan Misner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was very young, my mother gave me a paperweight that said, \u201cDiplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.\u201d She went on to say, \u201cHoney, I love you but you are a bull in a china shop; you just run people over. You have to learn how to work with people.” This advice was a major influence on me for the rest of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think back to your elementary school report card and how it graded you on your ability to play well with others. Well, things haven\u2019t changed. I believe your success in business, and particularly your success at networking, means that you need to learn how to collaborate — or in other words, play well with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can’t always choose who comes to the playground, and you won’t always get a say in who you\u2019re working with. You don’t have be friends with everybody. You don’t even have to like everybody. It\u2019s also important to recognize that different personalities add different perspectives and that, when managed well, can actually make a group more productive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I broke down while being interviewed in a recent episode<\/a> of the BNI Podcast<\/em>, don\u2019t let other people control your actions. This begins with some tolerance, a frequently invoked word that’s under-used in practice. Let\u2019s discuss a hypothetical Mr. or Ms. Jerk. I\u2019m going to call them \u201cJ\u201d for short. Remember, keep your eye on the ball and try not to be too sensitive about the jerk — I mean J. Here are some techniques that will help you with this process. (The last one in particular is critical.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n