Connect

Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues

De: David L. Bradford, Carole Robin

Narrado por: David L. Bradford, Carole Robin

Brought to you by Penguin.

A transformative guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, partners and family, based on the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics ('Touchy Feely') course at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer to others. When we find ourselves in an exceptional relationship - the kind of relationship where we feel fully understood and supported for who we are - it can seem like magic. But the truth is that the process of building and sustaining these relationships can be described, learned and applied.

David Bradford and Carole Robin taught interpersonal skills to MBA candidates for a combined 75 years in their legendary Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics (affectionately known to generations of students as 'Touchy Feely') and have coached and consulted to hundreds of executives for decades.

In Connect, they show listeners how to take their relationships from shallow to exceptional, along the way offering time-tested strategies for giving feedback, negotiating boundaries and working through disagreements. Through stories of people navigating tricky moments in relationships - all based on real dynamics Bradford and Robin have witnessed or experienced - we see the six hallmarks of an exceptional relationship in action: authenticity, vulnerability, honesty, a willingness to ask for and offer help, a shared commitment to growth and an ability to deal productively with conflict.

Filled with relatable scenarios and research-backed insights, Connect will be an important resource for anyone hoping to improve existing relationships and build new ones at any stage of life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 David L. Bradford and Carole Robin (P)2021 Penguin Audio

interesting opportunity to learn the skills necessary to do the work to build exceptional relationships

Heard about it in a workshop and binged the book while sick, so limited opportunities to practice each chapter in between, etc. - that said I had an amazing conversation recently that was at least in part empowered by this book.

highly recommend it, though I wish I could have taken the full course to get the practice in a designed setting.

still, as I'll apply it in my life I'll learn, might need to review the book again in the future

Down to earth yet very powerful

As I rarely read non-fiction books, I am a bit cautious starting such. "Connect..." is a book I was really sceptical about. Yet, I gave it a chance and I am truly happy I did. It makes me want to go through the course it is based upon ;)
Anyway, it treats its main subject in a way, that is very interesting, insightful and most importantly - easily understood and down to earth. It really speaks a simple language, it provides examples on what it want to say, and goes as deep as the book format allows into the points it makes. More-so, what it talks about is a topic that all of us can benefit from by enhancing out knowledge (and skills) about.
The last chapter, albeit short - again, the limitations of a book form for broader topics, is really a gem where it shows a real-life conflict between the authors of the book and how they went about it. Now, it is simplified, and its description probably "adjusted" to fit the narrative (says the cynic in me), yet still gives a powerful insight how the skills discussed in the book can bring positive result(s). Or not. It is always our choice ;)