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Build Authentic Relationships

Essential Cultivation Tools: Rakes, Hoes, Plows and imapMyTeam

Today, more than ever, achieving success in business requires collaboration and the ability to achieve not only personal goals, but ones held in common.  Establishing authentic relationships at work is a key ingredient to encouraging others to willingly collaborate in good times and perhaps more importantly when there’s much at stake and the going gets tough.

Before you can set out to build effective, authentic relationships with others, it’s important to have an accurate and authentic picture of yourself. Having an accurate and authentic understanding of yourself is powerful in that it gives you the ability to choose how you will behave towards or respond to others. It gives you the power to manage yourself; in the best interests of important relationships or the best interest of the project. 

Virtually all of the reports in imapMyTeam.com® will help you understand yourself [and others] better. Reading your own reports and reports about others is incredibly useful. Yet there is one additional step that you may not be taking full advantage of; a conversation.

The imapMyTeam.com® reports are also designed to be conversational.  If you work with someone quite a bit, take a couple of minutes over a cup of coffee, or lunch – whenever you can carve out the time- to print the reports and talk about them. Share your thoughts, expand on the language. Capture important insights from your discussion and record them in the notes section of your personal imapMyTeam page next time you login.

Authentic relationships don’t just happen, they require intentional cultivation.