Workbook
The Performance Partnership Workbook
A Paired Workbook for Managers and Employees to Design Their Working Relationship
Most working relationships are inherited. This one is designed by both people in it.
For the manager-employee pair who wants to design their working relationship rather than inherit it by default, whether new to each other or resetting after years of assumptions.
The Name It First Experience
The working relationship between a manager and employee is rarely discussed directly. Expectations are assumed. Preferences are guessed. The Performance Partnership Charter is built for two people who want to design that relationship. Each completes their section privately, then both become the basis for a shared conversation and a signed agreement.
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Sample questions
- What do you actually need from the person you work most closely with — and have you ever said it directly?
- What do you wish the other person understood about how you work, what you require, and what you're trying to do?
- What would a working relationship look like if it were designed on purpose — both people's needs named, expectations explicit, feedback not discovered through failure?
Research basis
Edmondson psychological safety on manager-employee relationship quality / Maslach burnout inventory on manager relationship as engagement driver / Graen and Uhl-Bien Leader-Member Exchange theory / Gallup engagement research on manager relationship as primary driver
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