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Assess Your Business Relationships

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people” Theodore Roosevelt

Relationships matter.  Let’s take a minute to remember why. 

We know from research and experience that getting relationships right builds trust, a key ingredient to successful endeavors. Also the quality of relationships has a direct correlation to the ability of individuals and teams to perform. Finally we know when times are tough; relationships are often the glue that holds us together.

In a high-speed, immediate response, 24-7 business world it could be very easy to begin to take your relationships for granted – but if you do – you do so at your own peril. The truth is great relationships take care and feeding. Given the previous statements on the importance of solid business relationships it may be helpful to occasionally assess our most important relationships.

It may be called imapMyTeam®, but it also could be called imapMyRelationships.

It is specifically designed to give you the perspective you need to quickly evaluate your approach to building and maintaining relationships and to ensure you are connecting with others in a way that promotes authenticity, trust and durability.

 

Take advantage of the ‘Building Relationships Snapshot’ report.  It is a two page report that captures:  

1)      On the first page the way you interact one to one with others; how you interact in groups and teams and how you demonstrate your care to others. 

2)      On the second page is what is essential for you to get from others in those same three areas.

Sometimes the way we interact (first page) is different than what we expect (second page). Sometimes it is exactly the same. imapMyTeam® sorts that out for you.

What to do next.

Print this report and ask one or more of your key colleagues to do the same then schedule a few minutes for all of you to talk about it. This investment of a few minutes of your time goes a long way to building that ‘formula of success’ that Theodore Roosevelt spoke of.