A Metaphor for How To Build Better Working Relationships
It is in our families that we first learn how to manage social interaction. Parents, siblings, grandparents, then friends, teachers, whoever it might be. Social scientists call these relationships social interactions fields. It’s like a dance we learn at a very young age, based on the level of relationship, the needs we have from each relationship and how we learn to influence that relationship. It should be no surprise that we take these learned response patterns with us into the work place.