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Profiting from highly productive relationships
People performance has been a significant focus in organisations for years. More and more the effectiveness of interactions between people is being recognised as vitally important to productivity, teamwork, talent retention, employee and customer satisfaction, and importantly, profits. How do we know when your business relationships need to improve?

• We feel stressed
• We become anxious, worried, tired
• Our creativity, enthusiasm, energy drops
• We become defensive, irritable, closed
• It can be hard to confront issues
• Good ideas seem to dull
• We lack motivation, drive, our output suffers
• Our minds become preoccupied with other thoughts
• We don't behave as we normally do
• We withhold information, thoughts and feelings
• We become suspicious, wary, critical, distant
• We may feel threatened, insecure, unsafe
• We may experience being victimised, isolated, ignored
• We can be hard on other people who we are close to, like or value
• We can try hard to be nice, feel false, uncomfortable

What's the impact of relationship problems in business?
If you are experiencing any of the above, then you are probably aware of the impact it is having, even subtly, on the relationships with people around you.

People pick up on your mood. Your energy affects their energy, and that impacts on productivity and service.

People put limits on their willingness to do things for other people. This can be frustrating. People can feel resentment between business areas and towards customers.

They find going to work less enjoyable, which over time can generate turnover amongst employees and customers. Results drop.

People feel less successful, which de-motivates not just your workforce, but also your own leadership. The negative spiral is complete and breaking out can seem difficult.

Breaking out of negative relationships - Hewsons experience
Hewsons have a wealth of information, strategies and many years of experience working with people in business to:

1) Develop your 'match fitness' to sustain productive business relationships even when challenges and pressures arise

2) Gain mastery in the use of proven strategies that build robust relationships

3) Become more skilful in resolving even difficult long suffering relationships

4) Be more authentic and 'likeable' in developing or attracting more successful relationships

5) Be a leader in developing and building highly productive relationships

How we help you

1) We establish the key components to why the present relationship is not ideal

2) Determine what each party wants from each other

3) Open up fresh viewpoints on the relationship that uncovers workable solutions

4) We coach you to be 'match fit' in your key relationships that meet your unique requirements

5) We improve your capability to understand where other people are at and increase your influence to achieve valuable outcomes

6) Give you powerful insights and solutions that have stood the test of time and have transformed unhappy relationships!

To get more from your business relationships, have them become more productive and rewarding  email  rhewson@hewsons.com.au  or  phone 02 9410 2611 and ask for Richard Hewson, Managing Director, Hewsons International.