Relationships play a pivotal role in any organization. What makes business issues problematic is often not the commercial or strategic aspects, but the relational issues that compound them. Personal differences in the values, motivations, and needs of different partners or managers can present obstacles that most managerial approaches do not cover.
To sharpen your leadership
Strengthen your relationships
So how do successful leaders foster trust, collaboration and open communication within their organization? In a volatile, uncertain, and complex world, relational leadership, focused on interpersonal dynamics, emotional intelligence, and the nurturing of positive relationships has emerged as one of the key factors to achieve organizational goals.
Neuroscience shows us the path to unlocking peak performance. In our teams. In ourselves.
When team members lack connection or feel unsafe at work, when they are afraid to fail, when they feel that their ideas or needs are not being heard, the threat system in their brain is activated, releasing stress chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline. These chemicals raise stress level, impair cognitive abilities and literally make work feel much harder.
Psychological safety is a critical foundation for high-performing teams. When leaders are given the tools and strategies to encourage open communication, promote transparency, create a feedback culture, model respect, celebrate learning and normalize failure, they create a safe environment where team members feel empowered to share ideas, innovate and collaborate, resulting in greater team creativity, productivity and resilience.
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“As human beings, we are social animals, hardwired to seek and maintain relationships with others. When this need is met, we feel psychologically safe and our cognitive abilities – such as memory, learning, creativity, and problem solving – can reach peak performance.
Relational leadership has nothing to do with being excessively protective or indulgent with team members. It has everything to do with fostering the conditions necessary for team members to be at their best.”
What can PartnerPower do for you?
Relational Leadership Coaching
If you’re wondering whether Relational Leadership coaching is for you, let's discuss the possibilities in a discovery call.
You are a highly successful business leader, but you have often been told that your style is abrasive and puts other people off. You have innovative and ground-breaking ideas but struggle to get your team to rally and buy into them. Your company has just acquired and merged operations with another business and you struggle to create team cohesiveness between old and new employees.
In a rapidly shifting workplace, organizations and their leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to create team cohesiveness. The need to interact with stakeholders from various cultural backgrounds both inside and outside the organization, with different interests and values, requires leaders to connect and to act competent, both interpersonally and emotionally.
Relational intelligence, the ability to connect with others, sets successful leaders apart. Connecting effectively with stakeholders and employees increases your influence, your likeability, and the desire for people to want to be around you and follow you. More importantly, relational leadership creates a feeling of safety in the workplace. Creating psychological safety means that team members can voice their opinions, openly disagree with each other, and take initiative and risks.
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Relational Intelligence for Emerging Leaders
You hired a star performer, but they are struggling to get accepted by others in the organization. You would like to promote a promising staff member to a leadership role, but they don’t seem to have the relational skills for a managerial position.
In the past, authority and credibility were built on status, power, or position—but in today’s world, they are built on relationships and trust. To be relationally intelligent, new managers must shift from a positional authority mindset to the crucial leadership mindset of relational authority. I work with your team’s rising stars to help them become more self-aware and successfully conquer the relational skills needed to develop and assert their leadership position.
I help you develop customized, cohort-based programs that address your organization’s idiosyncratic talent-development needs, focused on the interpersonal skills essential to thriving in today’s highly networked and increasingly collaborative environment.
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Relational Coaching for Co-Founders
You started a successful business, but the company’s future has become gridlocked by constant business-related disagreements between you and your partner. You developed a new business venture with your spouse, but now disagreements about how to develop the business threaten both your company and your marriage.
Running a business isn’t easy, but running a business with your spouse, your sibling, or your best friend can be even harder. When leadership teams are built on personal relationships, they can malfunction for a variety of reasons that go beyond what a traditional business coach can offer.
I translate my expertise in couple counseling to help you with your work relationship so that you can take care of business, make effective decisions, and pivot with agility to lead your organization to success.
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PartnerPower Gets Results
Jacqueline is an amazing facilitator. She managed to grasp everyone’s attention during the full 4-hour session while maintaining ground rules and making the overall session a safe environment to open up, fun to engage, and eagerness to share more.
Virtual Forum Training, October 2022
Jacqueline prepared some excellent exercises for our forum to engage in. She started the meeting with getting everyone comfortable talking and then continued to take us deeper and deeper. It was a pleasure to have her work with us and I would recommend her to any forum looking to reinvigorate their sharing or their group dynamics.
YNG Forum Retreat, Greece, May 2023
She made me feel extremely comfortable, heard and supported during the retreat. She had planned the perfect exercises to truly go deeper into ourselves and that helped to create the brave space for us to talk, connect, express ourselves and direct the forum. Truly loved the experience!
YNG Forum Retreat, Greece, May 2023
Jacqueline is full of empathy and has helped us to open up and have a meaningful session. She is very well organized and provided us with extra material that will help us understand and commit to this process. She was the essential key to unlock our emotions!
YPO Forum Launch, Greece, June 2023
Throughout the session, her ability to engage and captivate our attention was remarkable! The delivery of the information was clear and filled with enthusiasm, making the topics easily understandable.
Virtual Forum Training, June 2023
Jacqueline is a first rate moderator who brings a sense of intimacy and vulnerability into the forum from the very beginning. Her tone is genuine and she sets the bar high in terms of the standards of what is shared. She does all that while not taking her eye off the mark in terms of making the group bond and leave the session with a deeper sense of insight about themselves and each other. I would recommend Jacqueline to any group who is struggling to go beyond the surface emotion and unlock a deeper level of connectedness.
YPO Forum Launch, Germany, February 2024
She is very knowledgeable, engaged, clear, focused and showed me exciting ways of moderating the forum. Two thumbs up!
YPO Virtual Moderator Training, April 2024
Jacqueline has an extended knowledge in psychology, yet she is very likeable and humble. She mastered our forum retreat work in an impressive way. She was constantly aware of all forum members’ reactions, calm but efficient and allowed pauses and breaths when needed. This is the deepest work our forum has done so far and we have grown a lot and are equipped with the necessary tools for making future forums a success.
YPO Forum Retreat, Italy, May 2024
Jacqueline navigated difficult waters with us with grace and tact, gently waiting for us to get to the right conclusion on our own.
YPO Forum Retreat, Italy, May 2024
Jacqueline is an amazing professional with a lot of empathy and knowledge about how to help a group and an individual to go deeper in their sharing and all this with a lot of tact. She is a great human being too!
YPO Forum Retreat, Italy, May 2024
Find out how Dr. Jacqueline Widmer can help you and your team!
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