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Creating Powerful Partnerships – Part 3: Using a Design Model
Would you even consider building a house without an architect and a blueprint? You wouldn’t get some wood, nails and a hammer and just start putting something together and hope it turned into a house you would want to live in, would you? People do the equivalent with their partnerships all the time. They “believe”…
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Creating Powerful Partnerships – Part 2: The Five Stages of Relationships
The second key to powerful partnerships is having a working knowledge of the five stages of relationship. The five stages are: 1. Attraction 2. Power Struggle 3. Cooperation 4. Synergy 5. Completion The most problematic stages for most people are Power Struggle and Completion. People often ask us if the Power Struggle stage is necessary. Who wouldn’t…
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Creating Powerful Partnerships – Part 1: High Performance Communication
Partnerships are intentional relationships between two or more people who want to create a future together. That future could be anything from a life-long marriage to a business partnership to a short-term project. We’ve been coaching all kinds of people in consciously creating the kind of relationships they truly want for over 30 years. All…