You are invited to a party. If you could have your way, you wouldn’t go. But your family insists that you tag along. Reluctantly, you join them. No sooner have you arrived, someone at the gate decides that the best way to greet you is to comment on your
As employees, managers, and consultants what we need to realize is that our relationship with our clients can be strong when we help them identify what they need and how we can help them fulfill those needs.
When people in an organization work together, there are likely to be disagreements, arguments, or even misalignment of goals.
Values are reflected in what we do, day in day out. Unless and until our actions, choices, and habits don’t align with what we say—it doesn’t matter what we say.
When we place ourselves in someone else’s position and try to understand what they think about certain things, how they feel, and what drives them to make the choices they make—we can put things into perspective in a more connected and coherent way.