Note from Ray Newkirk
Hello. Welcome to my unusual author’s site. As an author, I really appreciate the value of building strong relationships with my readers. In corporate America, and other places, I learned many decades ago the necessity for building strong and reliable Workplace Relationships. Here is an interesting fact: Do you know that most people today focus so completely on developing their technical skills that they overlook the necessity for learning how to master the social-skills that establish and strengthen workplace relationships? Apparently people believe, and falsely I might add, that workplace relationships take care of themselves. After all, people have been forming relationship since they were born. Let me say something here that some people clearly understand but many do not:
Technical skills alone never make a good career. Mastery of workplace relationships propels one from the basement of oblivion to the rarefied atmosphere at the “pinnacle of decision-making.”
Successful people do indeed possess notable technical skills. Today, because of Cyber-Terror, some technical skills and the people who possess them are more in demand today than ever before. Even more than this, successful people are also quite intelligent socially. These people are masterful at forming and maintaining potent workplace relationships, the kind of relationships that can energize your career, or immobilize it. Also, successful people are very good at avoiding the relationships they should avoid and getting out of the workplace relationships they need to exit. Your ability to identify, form, and maintain these special kinds of relationships which enable you to foster a note-worthy career depends on your social understanding, insight, discipline, and character, especially your beliefs and values.
I have spent many decades in organizations from every corner of the globe gaining career defining insights about the nature and character of workplace relationships. This is why I have developed my Applied Intuitive Solutions™. I want you to be “really prepared” to go into the workplace and fit right in and succeed. Beleive me, the people who manage the workpalce want you to succeeed also. I want you to be able to go in from the get-go and carve out your little bit of territory that will eventually expand into an empire of achievements for your employer and yourself, for both of you. This is the reason you should take any job, to accomplish great things in your life. Please think about what I am saying here. You cannot achieve anything of significance professionally if you cannot form potent workplace relationships. They are this vital to your professional success, and your very personal and private life.
My Applied Intuitive Solutions™ emerged from the conviction that we need to present today the separate disciplines of technology and life-skills development as an integral program of professional education. It is news to many people that there is such a thing as life-skills development which can be experienced rather than only contemplated. The enjoyment of potent workplace relationships is the birthright of every man and woman, not only of senior executives and the lucky few who attended just the right schools and training programs. I sincerely hope your life is enriched by an abundance of wonderful Workplace Relationships.