The art of thriving working relationships

How often is it not that you experience a working relationship to be tiresome and less effective than the potential it can be?

Know yourself so you can know others is the basis to understanding what makes a working relationship thrive and succeed.

We all know how easy it is to work with like minded and preference style colleagues as ourselves. However the reality is more often than not that we get given (project and management) teams of people that might not be our own choice.

Understanding your own needs as well as that of others is step one in successful and fulfilling working relationships.

To get a measurement on this, Firo B is a great mirror and psychometric instrument to use in which you can assess yourself and your team.

How often and/or how selective are you in wanting others to initiate involvement, influence and connection with you? How often and/or selective are you in initiating involving, influencing and connecting with others in a warm intimate way with others?

The different level of needs and expectations may cause friction, misunderstanding and ineffectiveness.

Until you understand what these differences are, you cannot meet each other.

Having a meaningful conversation about the needs and expectations of each other helps to find strategies of how you can meet each other somewhere in the middle to thrive to be the best you can be together.