Your relationship with the people in your immediate work environment matters a lot. This is because, the manner in which you relate with your colleagues will either make or break you in whatever organization or career you are in.

Good relationships creates room for everyone to work together peacefully, but bad ones creates tension between you and your coworkers which will eventually lead to frustration because, you won't be able to do your job properly.

Now, how can you develop a good relationship with your colleagues? The answer is understanding. This is the key that will enable you coexist peacefully with your colleagues. You must learn to understand things from other people's point of view and not just your own. It is the absence of understanding that leads to conflicts and contentions.

By the time you're able to understand things from other people's point of view, you will be able to relate with them based on who they are and not you imposing your own point of view on them. You will be able to communicate your ideas better because you would already know how they think and reason.

But before you can do this, you will first need to understand who they are by learning to understand things from their own point of view.