The workplace might be a serious place to be, but it can also be a place where you make valuable and important connections with other people. In fact, you might meet your significant other or your best friend at your job. Unfortunately, most people do not stay at the same place of employment for their entire careers. Instead, they make their way from one employer to another, and might even end up switching careers at some point in their lives. This can cause people to lose touch with one another over time, even if they were rather close while they were working with one another every day.
How can you maintain a relationship with your former coworkers and colleagues, even as you drift apart and go in separate directions in your professional lives? Continue reading for a list of tips that can help you stay connected.
Know-How to Find Their Contact Details If You Lose Them
It is easy to lose someone’s contact information if you have not spoken to them in a while. People move away or they might end up changing their phone number, and they might not tell you that they are doing so. If you ever want to reach out and reconnect, especially if a lot of time has gone by, you might find yourself dialing the wrong number. Thankfully, there are online resources that you can use to get the contact details you need on just about anyone. You can perform a simple search on Google, you can use Nuwber or Leadar to get someone’s phone number, or you can even try to reconnect with someone on social media.
Stay Connected on Social Media
When it comes to social media, you can certainly use it to reconnect with someone you used to work with, but you can also use it to remain connected with people while you are still in the same workplace together. Sure, it might be a little weird to add them as your friends and connections while you are working together, but if you do, they will already be there even if either of you switches jobs. And, again, if you have lost touch, a simple search might be a surprisingly easy way to reconnect. So, in addition to using LinkedIn to maintain your professional network, also use platforms like Instagram and Facebook to stay in touch and continue being there for one another. Read more about How can SAP Business One increase efficiency and profits?
Meet Up in Person Often
Staying connected can become increasingly more difficult the more time passes without seeing one another in person. So, in addition to following the steps above to maintain accurate contact information and stay connected online, make it a point to continue seeing your former coworkers. For instance, you might get together for lunch every few months to catch up.
Have a Reliable Place for Storing Contact Information
Finally, no matter how many names, addresses, and phone numbers you need to keep track of, the most important thing is to have a safe and secure place to store all of that information. That way, whenever you need any of it, you will know where to access it. While you might be tempted to keep everything on your cell phone, it is a good idea to consider writing down the information in a little phone book that you keep at home. That way, if anything were to happen to the data on your cell phone, you wouldn’t need to worry about losing any important contact details for people you care about or want to continue working with. It might seem a little old-fashioned at this point, but sometimes, writing things down really is best.
