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Partnering

INTERPRETING YOUR SCORES

0-5: You maintain a traditional management-employee hierar-
chy that does not show respect for your employees’ ideas
or abilities. Employees are unlikely to feel engaged in their
work or relationship to you. There is little synergy within
your department or with other departments. Your behaviors
actively suppress a sense of partnership and greatly limit the
potential of your people and team.
6-10: Your behaviors support teamwork but not partnering.
Employees will experience some level of respect and
engagement. Collaboration may exist among some team
members but is unlikely to occur across departments. There
is an opportunity for you to show greater respect to employ-
ees and engage them more fully in partnership.
11-15: Your leadership style demonstrates great respect for
employees and fosters meaningful and effective partner-
ships. Your employees are likely to feel highly engaged and
will more readily reach out and partner with both internal
and external customers. Continue to look for opportuni-
ties to strengthen and expand your alliances with your
team members, other departments, and those outside your
organization.

Benefits of Partnering

The most obvious benefit of partnering is the synergy created
through combined resources, skills, and abilities to achieve
goals not otherwise attainable. As Stephen Covey suggests in
his book Principle-Centered Leadership: “The basic role of