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Grace Garden: Cultivating skills that lead to greater success

Our purpose at Business Builders Round Table is to help those working in leadership and entrepreneurial roles “cultivate” the skills that lead to greater success. I am a gardener, an observer and chronicler. I have learned many lessons working in the dirt that directly apply to leadership and navigating life. Here is a sample posted to YouTube.

 Grace Garden

The Big Dance

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.

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