Working relationships
I make sensible points. You hold forth. He won’t shut up. How can we be expected to get on?
In one of the largest studies ever conducted on happiness, only one factor distinguished the ‘very happy’ from the ‘moderately happy’ and ‘unhappy’.
It wasn’t how rich, beautiful or optimistic they were, or even how much chocolate they’d eaten. It was how sociable they were. More good relationships, the research concluded, make you happier.
Much the same applies to productive teams, delighted clients, inspirational managers and engaged employees. In fact it’s difficult to find an area of our lives that doesn’t benefit from better relationships.
Fortunately, we can determine the nature of our relationships almost irrespective of the other person, because we can always choose how we behave.
Discover a series of universal techniques to build, repair and, when you want, end relationships so you have as many fans, friends and fawning clients as you’d like.
I say what I think. You get steamed up. She makes a scene. We still get on.
At the end of the Go large you will have:
- Found out just how much you can control all your relationships.
- Considered what you might be doing that causes rifts.
- Tried tools that take no extra time, that you can use everyday to nurture and that are guaranteed to nourish existing relationships.
- Discovered how to avoid the toxic games that turn relationships sour.