Respect is an essential part of human life. What we do when we respect someone is that we recognise their value. When you disrespect someone you are really do nothing other than saying to someone “you are not valuable.” “You are not worthy.”
Respecting others is a silent way to express our feeling for them. It’s an unspoken way of communication which builds unshaken and strong relations between people respecting each other. When a person shows respect for someone, then it means that the person has some value for him. His advice and suggestions are important for him.
It is very important to respect one another in any relationship. It is impossible to have a harmonious relationship when one side judges the other side to be un-worthy. For any relationship to work there has to be an over-riding high regard for one another, even if there are disagreements. How can you treat someone well when you feel they are unworthy and have no value? How can you be helpful to them when you feel they have nothing to add? How can you have a high opinion of someone who views you as unworthy and value-less?
Some people think that showing respect is somehow degrading. They feel that the weak people show respect to the strong and powerful just because they are weak. This is a complete misunderstanding. It does not show weakness to see the value in others. It shows immense strength. It shows that someone is secure enough in their own value to be able to look out onto the world to see the value that is out there.
It is also important to remember that respect is reciprocal. When you respect someone you will recognise the value in them. You will treat them in such a way that tells them you find them valuable. The natural response on their behalf is to respect you in return. They will feel that this person really does add value to my life. They magnify what is good about me. They bring out the best in me. When you do this for someone they will view you as very valuable to them and they will develop a deep respect for you.
If we are very deliberate about developing deep respectful relationship in our professional lives, what we are in effect doing is cultivating alliances which can act as a lunch pad to maximise our own potential and the potential of the groups we are part of. We will all begin to view each other as valuable and will start adding value to each others lives. This is an emmensely valuable thing and is worth striving for.
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10 responses to “The Importance of Respect in Teams”
Very helpful blog. Can you please write why should we respect lower working class.
Thank you Nikhil, I will do so. One thought in the meantime: When you disrespect another, whoever that may be, it says more about you and your inability to treat another human being as valuable than it says about their value.
Thank You
well-done
Hi Assad, What sort of tangible behaviours would you look for to see that respect is an active behaviour in team dynamics rather than just an ambiguous word? Many thanks.
Respect is quite a subtle thing I think. It forms the substrate of our interactions with others and so anything can be done in either a respectful or a disrepectful way. There are a few concrete expressions of respect though.
The first is courtesy. This is one of the more noticeable expressions. Your respect or disrespect will tend to express itself in how either courteous or dismissive you are of colleagues.
Another expression of respect is the ability to suspend one’s own agenda for the agenda of another (this is, btw, a very significant skill for harmonious relationships). It is the height of disrespect to always try to impose your thoughts and agendas on another.
Another expression of respect is the level of cooperativeness between a group of people. Cooperation is about setting one another up to succeed. For this to happen people must grant each other significance. If each person is dismissive of the value of another, then the individuals will start operating in silos.
nigger
Why is respect a long life quality?
I do not quite understand the question. Perhaps you can elaborate?
Respect is a feature of a person’s maturity level and so it is a long lasting and stable condition of the person’s character if present.
It was good. But can u tell why is respect a core value????