Productive relationships

• What are your business relationships like at the moment?
• Weak to nonexistent? Or positively bad?
• Do you want better relationships with everyone or just a few?
• Do you build relationships strategically? Try this quiz.
• To manage yourself effectively, think strategically - how should you invest your time and energy to obtain the greatest return?
• What can you minimally do for those people who count most in your personal strategic plan?
• It's not about transforming your entire personality - even if you could, it would be too large an investment for too little return.
• It's better to take just those few practical steps that will get you the return you need with minimum investment.
• Do you feel that your colleagues are undermining you? Try quiz.
• What is your influencing style? Try quiz.
• How well do you listen? Try quiz.
• Do you see organizational politics as destructive? Try quiz.

Common reasons underlying relationship issues

• I need to develop relationships at work but I never find time.
• I have had feedback that people find me too competitive and aggressive to form or maintain good relationships.
• I have been told that my relationships suffer because people find me too impatient and short fused.
• I should spend more time developing relationships, but being introverted, it doesn't come naturally to me.
• I find it difficult to trust some of my colleagues.

Qualities of good working relationships

• What counts as a good working relationship for you?
• What steps can you take to build better working relationships?