Nurturing Your Friendships
and Relationships
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Nurturing Your Friendships
and Relationships
Agenda
• The importance of friendships
• How to nurture friendships
• Growing ourselves
• When differences arise
• Professional relationships
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The Importance of Friendship
• Support
• Companionship
• Understanding
• Continuity
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How to Nurture Friendships
• Attributes that contribute to
successful relationships
– Thoughtfulness
– Respect
– Humility
– Communication
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Growing Ourselves
• Commitment
– The role of friendship
– Balance
– Change
• Responsibility
– Co-creating relationship
– Conflict
– Playing our parts
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When Differences Arise
• If you have a grievance…
– Describe offensive behavior
– Explain impact on you
– Specify behavior change
– Consequences
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When Differences Arise
• If a friend has a grievance…
– Opportunity to grow
– Familiar patterns
– Clues to unfinished business
– Healing
• If unfinished business is surfacing…
– Clues to unfinished business
– Impasses
– Healing
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Professional Relationships
• Workplace friendships
• Relationship skills
• Professional roles and friendships
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