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Manage Relationships

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”      African Proverb

In keeping with our recent theme of tracing the steps to success from our imapMyTeam success model, we have arrived at step three – Manage Relationships.

It is not a stretch to say that people are naturally social creatures; we need friendship and positive interactions with others as much as we need food, water and air. It only makes sense that the better our relationships at work, the more productive we are going to be.

We also need good working relationships with others in our chosen field of endeavor. Customers, key stakeholders, suppliers, vendors and other external relationships are all essential to our success. You simply must be effective with a wide range of people, internally and externally, in order to succeed. Interacting with others in a positive way helps you more quickly achieve your organizational goals.

If you missed the first two steps of the process they are Self-Awareness and Self-Management. The third step involves an increased awareness of the diversity of behaviors people respond positively to which enable them to collaborate instead of resist their colleagues. To manage your relationships and help other people succeed, you need to adapt your behavior to these needs of other people and to be willing to accept any differences between what you define as important and what others define as important.

In essence, good solid relationships give us freedom and efficiency – instead of burning time and energy overcoming problems associated with negative relationships, you can focus on the job at hand. In today’s highly competitive global economy you need to unleash people’s creativity, not suck the energy out of them through dysfunctional relationships.

The art of building and maintaining positive relationships can be learned. For you, as a user of imapMyTeam®, we’ve made that as near to a slam dunk or tap-in putt as possible. All of the relational reports are written to other’s motivational needs. So when you pull up a ‘How to Talk to’, ‘What to Avoid’, ‘Management Tips’, on so on – you are getting insight directly to that other person’s motivational needs.

In the imapMyTeam survey, they are telling us exactly what they respond to best and we convert that data to easy to read and apply reports for yours and their benefit.

Go far together with imapMyTeam as your guide.