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.
Leadership is not a title. It is about 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 tells us how to achieve peak performance.
In ourselves and in our teams.
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 impair our cognitive abilities and literally make work feel much harder.
One powerful antidote is creating safe connections between leaders and their teams, and between team members.
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 and Co-Preneurs
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 relationship 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
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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 of that while not taking her eye of 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 highly recommend Jacqueline to any group who is struggling to go beyond surface emotion and unlock a deeper level of connectedness.
Yagos V., YPO Member
She really helped me to understand how my feelings affect my decision making. It was shocking to see how people were ready to open themselves in such an authentic level when they feel that they are in a safe and secure environment. Thank you Jacqueline!
Carla M., YNG Member
She made me feel extremely comfortable, heard and supported during the experience. She had planned the perfect exercises to truly go deeper into ourselves, and that helped in creating the brave space for us to talk, connect, express ourselves and direct the Forum. Truly loved the experience!
Alex Z., YNG Member
By the time we finished our Forum retreat, her impact was more than obvious. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that our Forum grew deeper during and after the session, and we now have tools at our disposal to continue growing in a meaningful way.
Alexia B., YPO Spouse
No matter how experienced you are with Forum, you always need to have a Forum “refresher” every now and then. Jacqueline was extremely well prepared and was able to engage the whole group with an amazing calmness and dedication.
Dima S., YPO Member
Jacqueline is an amazing facilitator. She managed to grasp everyone’s attention from the very beginning all the way to the end of the session while maintaining ground rules and making the overall session a safe environment to open up, fun to engage and eagerness to share more.
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