Illustration of two people with pink skin, one with a red shirt and blonde hair, and the other with a blue shirt and dark hair, each holding a microphone. There are red and blue lines connecting the microphones, suggesting conversation or interaction.

THINKING – Sprint 8

How to create and build powerful relationships

The reason for this sprint

We want to help you understand how to work effectively with almost anyone. You will need to work with many types of individuals to make your enterprise a success, including strangers. You will also need the people you work with to work productively together.

This sprint coaches you on how to master skills required to build strong relationships with almost anyone and help others make their relationships more productive.

These are broadly useful and powerful skills that revolve around understanding the role of shared objectives in forming relationships and the three types of shared objectives, cooperating, competing and retreating that you can use to mold together to create more powerful relationships with almost anyone.

Sprint exercises

This sprint is designed to help you understand relationship building skills, assess your skills and then prescribe productive steps to practice and improve your skills.

It starts with the article “What is relationship building?”.

After reading or listening to this article we want you to think of your answers to these 3 questions:

  • How masterful do you aspire for your relationship building skills to get?

  • Do you favor one type of relationship (cooperating, competing, retreating) over the others? Why?

  • What scares you about becoming masterful at relationship building?