The ObservatoryWork relationships
Relationships with colleagues, your manager, customers, participants or collaborators.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How comfortable are you with the people you work with?
- 2Who at work gives you energy?
- 3Which work relationship grates the most, and what is it about?
- 4How is your relationship with your manager or client?
- 5Which work relationship would be worth investing a little in?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
The colleague who grates on you
A concrete boundary against what grates on you daily, without it turning into a war
12 min · Discipline
Exercise
Active listening
Practice simply listening, with no advice and no stories of your own, and let the silence be. It strengthens the feeling of being understood.
12 min · Compassion
Exercise
Say it without accusing
Turn something hard you need to say from accusation into an I-message — and decide when you will say it.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
Compassion for a difficult person
A gentle exercise for loosening your own grip on irritation toward someone who gets under your skin, not for their sake, but for yours.
9 min · Compassion
Exercise
Meeting someone else's anger
When someone is boiling over, neither logic nor counterattack helps. What helps is less exciting, and it works.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
When someone shares good news
How you respond to other people's joy builds the relationship more than how you comfort them in hardship.
9 min · Discipline