In the workplace, is personal ability more important or interpersonal relationships more important?

The most basic truth: Only what you own is really your own and can be trusted!

This question is often asked in the workplace, especially young people who have not worked for a few years. Due to the lack of experience and experience, they want to find a fast development path. In fact, it is not only about work, but also as a person. You need to develop steadily, gradually improve your all-round ability, and rely on your own strength to speak. Only then can you walk smoothly on the long road. Of course, people with different growth backgrounds and values ​​have different views and choices, but from my more than ten years of experience in manufacturing engineering technology, I can give a clear answer: it is more important to work hard to improve personal ability.

First. The workplace is like a battlefield. The essence is the exchange of interests. If there is no strong personal ability as the support, how can you achieve high performance? Personal business ability is the foundation, and it is a solid foundation. Without a solid foundation, there is no possibility of future career development. Only by laying a solid foundation can you do a good job in interpersonal relationships. Otherwise, you will be worthless to other colleagues and leaders. Useless or not very useful, who wants to waste time talking to you about interpersonal relationships.

Second. Strive to improve personal ability and build your own brand within the company and the industry, which is a sustainable development route. For example, as an engineer in the engineering department, you must improve your ability to read pictures and deal with technical changes of customers. You must compare horizontally and vertically, and compare with the level of the company's internal engineers and the level of excellent engineers in the industry, and automatically to the excellent Through hard training and continuous practice, even if you can’t be the top in the industry, you must be the first in the company, so that your personal brand will be gradually established, and you are the authority of the company in this regard. Your boss and colleagues will think of you to deal with technical problems in the first place, and your value within the company will be automatically magnified.

Third, personal ability not only refers to business and technical ability, but also includes comprehensive abilities such as personal leadership and management ability. Continuously improve these abilities, so that your value and status in the company will become higher and higher, so you don’t need to pay too much If you focus on taking care of interpersonal relationships, some people will naturally express enough goodwill to you. Huang Bo said: when you are strong, the whole world will be kind to you, that's the truth.

In the end, it is not that interpersonal relationships are not important, but in contrast, the first thing to do is to improve personal ability and value. People can always rely on their own skills. This is something that others cannot take away. The relationship can only be regarded as the icing on the cake. This kind of relationship is very illusory and rootless. It may break at any time and is unreliable.