Good loan agreement is important
If it is so important for you be right in an argument that you would insult another person’s dignity, then you are probably not using a win-win style of conflict resolution. It is important when resolving conflicts to be sure our partners feel that they also have won. Being right is not more important than affording another human being the respect and dignity he or she deserves.
Since we began administering the Partnering Quotient (PQ) Assessment, we’ve been asked how it was developed. The Six Partnering Attributes are based on research conducted by a team I headed at USWEST Communications from 1988 to 1992 with more than two thousand middle- and upper-level executives and elected union officials from different geographic and cultural areas needing to partner with each other. The research was expanded to include other executives including nonprofit and community leaders from 1992 to 1998. The assessment statements were developed by a team and then reviewed by Margaret Molinari, Ph.D., an organizational psychologist at the University of California, Sacramento. The assessment was successfully validated in a psychometric study conducted at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.
