Monday, June 4, 2012

Do relationships matter any more?!?!

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

Relationships – personal and professional - do make a difference in life!

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