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Business Therapy: 4 Ways To Instantly Improve Communication With Your Partner
Learning these small tricks can go a long way to helping business owners improve their conversations and get back on the same page.
Business relationships are challenging and often complicated due to the personal / professional intersection.
Whether your work relationships turn personal or your personal relationships turn professional, both are riddled with complexities that lead most partners into recurring disagreements.
Previous research shows 65% of high-growth startups fail due to cofounder-related issues, and consistent disagreements among business partners likely contributes to an even higher percentage of stress, burnout, and exhaustion.
As a business psychologist, I specialize in working with founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs who want to improve their relationships with themselves and their business partners. While I teach many skills for interpersonal effectiveness, I was recently reminded of a framework called Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
NVC assumes that people are compassionate and that violence — physical or verbal — are behaviors learned from the environment. While you may not think of your…
