Win-win Partnerships

Book excerpt: The old adage it's not what you know; it's who you know is taking on new meaning in the modern workforce. Win-Win Partnerships is a guidebook for anybody concerned about how they work with the people they work and live with.The focus of this book is on creating positive conditions for discovering and acting on growth opportunities. Because nearly everything we achieve is ultimately the result of a combined effort or partnership with others, synergistic teamwork is a vital element to success. Coaching comes in as a method of encouraging and supporting open dialogue, confidence, empowerment, and performance. In this book, you will discover an amalgam of ideas, skills, guidelines, and principles that will help you fill a coaching role. -- Win-Win Relationships can help you synergize working relationship to improve productivity and communication. -- Discusses skills which can build teamwork in any relationship, be it employee-employer or husband-wife. -- The authors walk you through the eight-step process to becoming a better leader, spouse, business associate, or teacher.