In my last posting, I talked about some of the changes that
were coming to my business and it’s now published, so please check out the announcement
in our newsletter here: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs049/1100385597389/archive/1110153903795.html
Our renewed emphasis in relationships in personal and
business lives is overdue, I think. We’ll still work with people in leadership development,
but I feel it’s so important that the personal (…and I don’t mean private
business – you know that I mean person to person…) be given more attention than
just accomplishing daily to-do’s.
I’ve already had one response to the newsletter and this
reader commented: “I absolutely agree on the personal relationships, but I feel
very old school when I try to maintain them. In my little world, the
biggest killer is technology - it is used to track business, rate business,
track complaints, track results. We are being moved away from dealing
with our customers (the schools). We still audit their data and tell them
when something is not right, but they are supposed to direct questions to our
functional specialists 'team.' That boils down to losing the personal
relationships that have worked so well for me over the years. I could get
people (schools) to cooperate because they knew...me. They knew I would
help, if I could. I have argued that we need to maintain those
relationships in staff meetings, but I am the dinosaur.”
That is so frightening, isn’t it?
Check out our new home page and the Getting to Know Yourself…and Others™ - A Self-Study Program inBuilding Stronger Relationships, which is a four part learning
experience that will lead you to:
· Discover your own preferred behaviors
· Learn to recognize other peoples’ predominant
behavior style
· Adapt your behaviors to strengthen your
relationships
· Focus on specific People Skills and Personal
Strengths that you want to develop
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