Many people believe that relationships between two people should be 50/50. Ideally, this is true – burdens and rewards should be equally shared. However, that is not reality.

Many managers cannot bring themselves to admit they made a mistake. Have you ever reported to someone like this? If you have, you simply have to adjust to it. What kind of manager are you? It is important to own when you are wrong and apologize.

Relationship problems exist anywhere you go, including the workplace. Having positive relationships does not eliminate conflict, but it can reduce it.

We believe that the most important meetings a manager has with their direct reports are one on one. Individual meetings with your direct reports lead to better and faster results.

People want to know they feel significant. It is a basic human desire to know someone truly care about them and that they matter.

If you are committed to cultivating positive relationships with people through accepting them as they are, you will inevitably run into conflicts between how people really are and how you wish they could be.

Accepting people as they are and not asking them to change is the most important piece to cultivating positive, healthy relationships with your employees. At Talent Plus we believe that people cannot change who they innately are as people. Dr. William E.

Many managers are taught not to get too close to your employees. Managers are expected to be friendly with their employees, but they also “know where to draw the line.

The first step in cultivating positive relationships is getting to know your people.