Communication Tip of the Day from Treat Consulting: USE ‘WE’ NOT ‘ME’ TO BUILD RAPPORT AND ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR TEAM. A glaring mistake many managers make when they’re new on the job is to focus primarily on ‘getting attention’ and ‘gaining control,’ i.e., ‘me.’ Instead, during the first thirty days in a new job, focus primarily on 'building rapport' and 'establishing relationship' with your team, i.e., ‘we.' The more you signal 'we,' the more your team will choose to follow you. For example, signal ‘we’ not ‘me’ in conversation by saying ‘we, us or you,’ not ‘I, my, or me.'
