Leadership topic - partner

Partner is step three of the empower framework: leaders who partner work with customers and teams to produce world-class results. Manage stakeholders, address issues effectively and practices the fine art of negotiation.  Blends people into teams when needed; Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.

Roadblock – Competes first versus sharing responsibility, Optimizes for their team/personal goals first. Delegates pieces and parts; treats people as a collection of individuals not a team.

Start with Promise, Together or Harmony, then see how it plays out across the Avett Brothers series.

partner Efficiency

partner Efficiency

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Healing partners

Healing partners

The first song that came on when I requested The Partridge Family is today’s offering, I’ll Meet You Halfway – perfect for the partner discussion.  So exactly what does that really mean?  When I was researching the song, various negotiation websites returned definitions of “halfway”, most of which made the point that it is rarely half of anything in a transaction.  Actually, “partner” has the same fate – everyone thinks they know what it means, but it is rarely a common definition…