Here at Client ConneXion, we provide dealerships with innovative solutions to their communication needs, essentially connecting dealerships with their customers in new and unique ways. Since we work alongside so many highly professional and successful companies, we want to share an idea: working with a dealership, rather than working for a dealership.

This idea – working with versus working for – can be applied to any person who has a job. Anyone from a salesperson working diligently to sell vehicles to an auto mechanic working hard to fix car troubles can learn from this valuable lesson that we have been taught.

Working For

It is so easy in casual conversation to mention that you work for a company. I work for so-and-so. I did a project for so-and-so. This type of language encourages the notion that you are essentially “owned” by your company, oftentimes creating a false sense of worthlessness. This type of “working for” relationship leads to only one idea: you are in a position of obligation, not partnership.

Working With

Working with a company, on the other hand, encourages partnership over obligation. The worthlessness is erased, and you act as an integral piece of your company’s puzzle. Instead of completing a task based on a requirement from your upper level management, you complete a task alongside them. The “working with” mentality gives companies and their employees/consultants peer-oriented rapport, creating a symbiotic relationship.

Overall, whether you’re partnering with a company – as we often do at Client ConneXion – or serving a company as a valued employee, remembering to keep the “working with” mindset will encourage an advantageous connection on both ends of the spectrum. At Client ConneXion, we have built our entire practice on the “with” mentality, always believing that your success is our success.

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