How to Build Business Relationships?

1. Friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness

2. The way friendship enhances well-being has nothing to do with
quantity & everything with quality

3. Aristotle classifies friendship into three categories

4. Friendship of pleasure
e.g.: people with whom you can go for a movie

5. Friendship of Virtue
You are friends because of the person – The highest kind of
friendship

6. Friendship of utility
Those in which you gain tangible benefits

7. This presentation talks about how to create & maintain friendship
of utility

8. What you talk is more important than what you wear

9. Weave a strong personal story

10. Connect patterns from insights to weave an engaging story

11. Opening of doors depends on your energy level – Be vibrant

12. Meet people proactively because getting introduced Is easy

13. When many people are waiting, wait happily behind the queue to
use quality time with your friend

14. Always carry a big smile

15. Share good news beyond scope of work

16. Every good conversation starts with good listening

17. Identify nuggets in the conversation to stress them & address
them later on

18. Tell them what you admire in them

19. Make it personal by asking them to guide you with their knowledge

20. Build on trust & intellectual ability

21. Trust is the conduit for influence. It is the medium through which
ideas travel

22. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small
minds talk about other people

23. Talk less about yourself & more on your dreams about the future

24. Frame interesting sentences in a way they can imagine what you
are saying

25. Flow against the crowd & get noticed

26. Never strike a powerless pose

27. Identify & offer one skill of yours that will be helpful to your friend.
They’ll remember you when in need

28. Make it obvious to them on what you can offer & others cannot

29. Just like maintaining consistency in any work, maintaining a
relationship is also difficult

30. Follow ups & constant updates are the basis of any relationship

31. Invest time & energy in building the relationship

32. When they ask you to get something done, get it done no matter
what! Preferably in a better way

33. Share all news, Good & bad!

34. Stand by them in both good times & bad times

35. When you screw up, say sorry

36. Treat juniors & seniors with the same respect