40 Tips on how to work successfully with your partner

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Avoid disagreements

Working with your partner is not necessarily an easy thing to do. Before you start you need to set out some ground rules to make things clear about how you will work together.  Even the most suited and happiest of couples can disagree over finances, working practices and family because men and women work in different ways.

My suggestions on how to maintain your relationship and to ensure a successful business partnership in no particular order are:

1. Communicate honestly and openly with each other at all times
2. Listen actively
3. Set clear agendas, daily if necessary.
4. Manage daily expectations to avoid disappointment, resentment and missed opportunities
5. Allocate sufficient office/desk space for each of you – there may be times when you need to work alone
6. Discuss how and what you will share with regard to office equipment, PCs, files etc
7. Have a shared sense of humour
8. Create common goals and objectives
9. Set ground rules and formalities for the business and the business partnership
10. Agree to disagree at times
11. Be willing to take tough decisions and/or risks together
12. Eliminate power struggles or control issues
13. Share the future visions of business, family and partnership
14. Manage your realistic expectations
15. Allow yourself or your partner space to take time out alone
16. Discover your individual strengths and limitations
17. Discuss how best to harness your strengths and skills so you both accomplish what is needed
18. Appreciate each other’s talents, skills and areas of expertise
19. Avoid competing with each other
20. Trust each other
21. Do what you say you will do, when you say you will do it
22. Divide your business responsibilities
23. Be flexible and sensitive when you need to be
24. Value each other and your individual work styles and preferences
25. Reflect on the benefits of working together
26. Respect each other
27. Keep work and family time separate, stick to schedules
28. Be happy, enthusiastic and positive at work
29. Treat each other with courtesy
30. Avoid arguments and criticism, settle disagreements in a timely and rational way
31. Set aside business-free time and use it wisely
32. Celebrate your successes
33. Value feedback and be open to change
34. Write things down, communication is key
35. Get outside professional support and help when necessary
36. Develop a transition from work life to home life
37. Prevent problems by planning and communicating
38. Keep talking to each other
39. Go on ‘dates’
40. Plan together

Any other suggestions?

Lynn
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About Lynn Tulip
Lynn Tulip is a career management and HR professional running her own HR consultancy. Her passion is working with individuals, helping them rekindle their work passion. Read the newly published Get That Job, the art of successful job hunting.. Apart from loving food and fitness, she enjoys her ever growing family. Find her online or follow her @LynnTulip and @A4P_HR
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