From Adversary to Ally: Transform Your Critical Business Relationships
Increase your impact and influence by having powerful conversations that align expectations and build the relationships you need to accelerate your career.
Why Nurture Your Critical Relationships?
Relationships are built, or destroyed, one conversation at a time. While you don't have to like everyone you work with, you do need to be able to communicate your needs and expectations, and listen to others, in order to work respectfully together. The real test of any professional relationship is what happens when you and your colleague disagree, when you are in conflict.
Without action, nothing will change. Communication is at the heart of every Ally relationship; learn how to prepare and raise issues; make recommendations; effectively deal with conflict, and; how to apply the four conversational strategies to invest and nuture your professional relationships.
The resources within Cultivate@Work will provide you with pragmatic tools and resources to nurture and enhance your professional relationships and effectiveness at work. The rest is up to you, we encourage you to take action today and start reaping the benefit of cultivating your winning relationships. We promise it will be worth it!
The benefits of nurturing critical relationships
Individuals
Everyone experiences tough professional relationships sooner or later. So what do you do when an important relationship is floundering? Cultivate@Work will provide you with the answers to that question.
HR & Team Managers
Relationships are at the heart of every succesful team. If you are looking to increase collaboration and teamwork, develop a culture of candor and debate (rather than toxic conflict) and enhance your team's performance then Cultivate@Work is the resource you need.
Executives and Owners
Creating an organization culture that drives innovation and teamwork takes more than posters and wishful thinking. Cultivate@Work provides a language and framework that transforms organizations, removing barriers to success, creating one team and delivering business results that matter.
Your Instructor
Morag Barrett is the best-selling author of Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships and The Future-Proof Workplace. She is also the founder and CEO of SkyeTeam, an international leadership development company.
As a sought out speaker and leadership development expert, Morag’s experience ranges from senior executive coaching, developing high impact teams, to facilitating leadership development programs across Europe, America, and Asia. At last count Morag has worked with more than 6,000 leaders in 20 countries and on four continents in companies as diverse as NTT Security, Google, Charter Communications, Topgolf, and Pearson.
Morag has been featured in Entrepreneur.com, Forbes, CIO.com and the American Management Association among others.
When it comes to failed projects, or careers, the cause is rarely a lack of smarts or technical knowledge. Instead they are the result of destructive conflict, or differing personality styles that come to the fore especially in emotionally charged situations.
With more than 30 years’ experience in industries around the globe, Morag understands the challenges of running a business and leading the people within the company to deliver outstanding results.
Testimonials
“With the book, the workshop, and now the Cultivate@Work Field Guide, you have all the resources you need to cultivate winning relationships!”
F.M., New York
“In her book Cultivate, Morag changes the way you think about and build intentional business allies. With the Cultivate@Work Field Guide you have all the pragmatic tools and resources to take action and cultivate your Ally relationships."
S.D., California
“I received my copy of Cultivate and LOVE it!!! I signed up for the The Field Guide and it ROCKS! I cannot wait to explore all the resources available!!!"
A.M., London, UK
Module Contents
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PreviewWhat to Expect in Nurture Your Critical Relationships
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PreviewVideo: The Four Conversational Strategies (3:29)
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StartConversations that Build Relationships
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StartCommunicate as an Ally
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StartThree Tips for Connecting with Others
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StartAlly or Adversary? Which Relationship Should You Invest in First?