Mindset & Emotion
How you interact and deal with potential and
current business partners has a significant impact
on your working relationship and, ultimately, on
your bottom line as well.
How you do business says more about you
than you may think. From the way you cold
call, send an email, reply to communications
and interact during one-on-one meetings, it all
speaks to your personal values.
Defining your own set of personal values will
help you align with business partners who
share the same morals. For example, consider
the values you uphold in your personal
relationships – you treat others how you want
to be treated, always say "please" and "thank
you," engage in conversation, make time for
people you love, etc.
The same values can be applied to your working
relationships. Ask yourself: Are you treating
your colleague the way you want to be treated?
Are you saying 'please" and 'thank you" during
your professional conversations? Are you
engaging in an honest and open conversation?
Are you taking an interest to know them as a
person and not just as a business opportunity?
These are all questions to ask yourself in
order to align your personal values with your
business behaviour. Defining your morals, not
only expresses your authenticity, but it also
encourages your colleagues to do the same
and to feel that they are seen by you. each other to make mistakes and learn from
them? In business settings, there are many
opportunities for mishaps. The faster you and
your partners can recover, the stronger the
relationship, both personal and professional,
will be.
If,
for
example,
punctuality,
open
communication, and dedication are values
the person you're doing business with doesn't
adhere to, but are important to you, this
might present difficulty moving forward with
business projects. 5. Accountability
Below are a few values that you may want
to consider implementing in your business
practice. 6. Focus
1. Ambition
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Do you and your business partners share
the same excitement for the project at hand?
Having the same ambition will lead you and
your partners to find solutions to challenges in
a positive way, and will also make it enjoyable
when trying to reach the same goal together.
2. Honesty
Open communication and transparency are
key when working on a business plan with
so many moving parts and key stakeholders.
You must be able to speak with your business
partners in a constructive way, even when you
don’t agree on certain terms.
3. Empathy
Do you and your business partners have the
ability to understand and share each other's
feelings? Doing so will allow you to understand
the challenges the other deals with, what they
care about and how you can help them reach
shared goals.
4. Adaptability
Do you and your business partner follow
through on your promises to one another?
It’s important you each own up to what’s not
working and if either of you is falling behind on
your end of the agreement.
Are you and your business partners putting an
emphasis on the shared agreement? If either
of you becomes distracted, that may lead to
an unfocused partnership with much room for
error and unfinished tasks.
7. Respect
Integrity for yourself and for others will allow
you to build fruitful relationships which endure
longer than any one single business agreement
would alone. Having respect embodies being
honest and having strong moral principles.
Having respect for yourself, business partners
and customers will ultimately reflect on your
bottom line.
By upholding your own set of values and
aligning with individuals who live out the
same core morals, you set yourself up for the
possibility to do business with them over and
over again.
Although your ethics don't need to be the
same as your business partners', you should
be able to connect on some common ground
with them. And if you feel strongly that your
values don't align, you may consider not doing
business with them at all.
Do you and your business partner allow
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