Let colleagues respect you more and get more opportunities for collaboration. As the saying goes, there are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. This sentence can't be more appropriate to describe the relationship between colleagues, so the purpose of inviting colleagues is to increase mutual understanding, gain more respect, and gain more opportunities to work together. But we often hear people say that colleagues are also competitors.
So what problems should we pay attention to when inviting colleagues in this situation, when we are both partners and competitors? First, live within your means. Second, pay attention to identity. If the identity level is not high, but you often invite colleagues to high-end restaurants, it will be considered to be too ostentatious, which is likely to cause collective antipathy of other colleagues. At the same time, pay attention to methods and skills when inviting colleagues. The core is to make an appointment with benefits. Otherwise, we will not only lose respect, but also lose more cooperation opportunities. So, what are our methods for inviting colleagues? Let me give you a few simple tips.
First move: preempt.
First, we should understand the potential needs of our colleagues. For example, in this scenario, there is a colleague named Sister Ma. We can communicate with him in this way. Sister Ma, are you free at noon? Let's go to dinner together. I also invited some good friends. Maybe you can cooperate in business. Sister Ma can't go without her, because there are potential customers in this dinner party. Don't you miss the opportunity if you don't go?
The second move: Borrow flowers to write Buddha.
For example, I can say to my colleagues, "My good friend gave me a bottle of Moutai, but I don't know how to taste wine. It's a waste to drink alone. You are an expert in drinking. Let's find a place to drink this bottle of Moutai together."
If your colleagues like to drink, they will naturally run to you. If they don't, they may face missed opportunities for a long time. So I usually go there in this case.
The third move: step by step.
Of course, this method is suitable for inviting colleagues to dinner for the second time. For example, I can say to my colleagues, "Hey, Brother Wang, the restaurant you recommended last time tastes really good. You are still an expert in the field of food. Recently I found a new French restaurant near my company. Let's go and try it after work."
This is not only a tall hat, but also a joke and humor. It is difficult to refuse even if you want to refuse at the same time.
Of course, there are some taboos when inviting colleagues to dinner. For example, talk less about work, don't slander other colleagues or leaders, don't reveal others' privacy, don't complain, don't spit when you feel wronged in the company, which is easy to cause unnecessary misunderstandings. As the saying goes, every flower is worth a hundred days, and no man is worth a hundred days. Once the relationship between you two becomes contradictory one day, every word you ever said may become the fuse that ignites your workplace. So colleagues should not only talk about ways to eat, but also remember some taboo topics. Talk about what should be talked about, and never talk about what should not be talked about.
