Ready for a do-over?

Have you and a key partner gotten off to a bad start? Do you have a long standing partnership that has gone off the rails? 

It happens. 

Ready for a do-over? Once you and your partner agree you are ready, consider these questions - separately and then together. 

  1. Start with what you have in common: What three hopes and aspirations do you share?

  2. Be explicit about your appreciation for the other: What do you see as the three most critical contributions the other makes to the work and to the enterprise? 

  3. Acknowledge your part: If you had one do-over that you believe could have improved the trajectory of your partnership had you done it differently, what would it be? 

  4. Commit to the long haul: How would you know if your partnership is improving? What are the outwardly visible and inwardly palpable signals? 

Repairing conflict can be a bit like waiting on the side of the pool together to jump in. Someone has to go first.


 

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