We all know about trust in our personal relationships \u2013 absolutely critical for the long-term viability of the relationship. But what about our professional relationships \u2013 amongst our peers, the relationships between our functional groups? Nearly all of us can relate to a situation in which a project fell behind, a deadline was missed, or a meeting was more acrimonious than necessary. Often the discussions degrade into blaming or some other anti-pattern, nearly always with an us vs. them theme.<\/p>\n
Working together involves a shared goal \u2013 we\u2019re collaborate because whatever it is we\u2019re doing is bigger than what we\u2019re able to do alone \u2013 collaboration becomes necessary to achieve the goal. But when we get into those anti-patterns \u2013 we loose site of that shared goal, or perhaps there\u2019s other goals competing for those same resources.<\/p>\n
Have a discussion, understand (or maybe discover) what your common shared goal is. Sometimes it\u2019s just reaffirmation of a share commitment, but sometimes your partner organization had to shuffle priorities and your work isn\u2019t as important. Have a discussion, seek to understand, and build trust.<\/p>\n
How do you build trust?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We all know about trust in our personal relationships \u2013 absolutely critical for the long-term viability of the relationship. But what about our professional relationships \u2013 amongst our peers, the relationships between our functional groups? Nearly all of us can relate to a situation in which a project fell behind, a deadline was missed, or a meeting was more acrimonious than necessary. Often the discussions degrade into blaming or some other anti-pattern, nearly always with an us vs. them theme.Read More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-coaching.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}