It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. –Yogi Berra
Our “social relations” or our “circle of influence,” as it is now commonly referred to, can greatly impede or accelerate personal and team performance. High-performing sports teams have known this for years, and augment their teams with athletes who can form and maintain strong social relationships with one another, allowing the team to perform at its ultimate best.
When training organizations on the importance of social relationships, I ask my participants to list five people they associate with the most. I then have them evaluate the goals they are pursuing. Of the top five people they associate with, I ask them if they feel they are being assisted or deterred in the pursuit of those goals. I am often amazed by the end of this exercise how people’s awareness becomes heightened around the relationships they keep and how they are affected by them.
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