We need to follow up with high emotional intelligence, meaning to consider, understand, and elevate the feelings of the other individual before and while we follow up

Morale is the most important resource in a team or company. A team with high morale can work hard, produce strong results, and desire to continue working hard and producing strong results. A team with low morale will struggle to produce meaningful work and often face high turnover rates. Managing workplace morale can be built by understanding our team members' [working] relationships, problems, and goals.

I define a positive team culture as one that outputs strong results and develops its people concurrently. Regardless if your company is tripling headcount year on year or occasionally adding a few staff members, a frictionless onboarding is the first step to developing a positive team culture, which will create a welcoming aura to attract and retain talent.

Managing Upwards involves working with your manager to optimize what is best for the company and also best for you. To do so, we need to understand the impact of our work, explain methodologies, and get feedback as we progress. Managers cannot think what is best for every situation, so we need to help guide them by providing well thought out options.

Clean Navigation of Corporate Politics: developing fluid work relationships that are symbiotic and span in every direction, not just upwards to bosses, but also to peers, subordinates, and across other teams; these fluid relationships will then lubricate the path to achieving our goal(s)

Approaching antagonistic relationships with a growth mindset is essential to continually improving both your craft and your working relationships.