Building Effective One on One Relationship

Our reasoning with regard to interpersonal matters should be as analytical, strategic, and as datadriven as any other management discipline. Effective managers must know how to build
relationship, based on mutual expectations, trust, and influence, with the complex network of
people of whom they are interdependent. Although it is easier to develop relationship with those
who share the same background, values, interest, or working style, as a manager you must be
able to diagnose potential barriers to establishing mutually beneficial relationship with different
individuals, and find a basis upon which to build more effective relationship. The degree of
relationship can be measured based on mutual expectations about performance, goals and
priorities; Mutual trust that develops in a relationship; mutually influence each other beyond
what is accorded to them by virtue of their roles. Effective relationship is one that mutual
expectations, trust and influence grow overtime and become more concrete, tested and grounded.
Conflicts will inevitably arise, even when you have good intentions. You have to use your basic
thinking skills to identify such conflicts and find out how to resolve it.