Give your Relationships a Health Check

How good do you think your business relationships are? Give it a health check before it's too late


I was recently catching up on some of my favourite podcasts on Manager Tools. The topics vary but all have a theme of how to be a better manager. One of the topics touched on the question of how good are your relationships with clients, friends, co-workers and class mates.

We can very easily fool ourselves into thinking that we have a great relationship with a client or company but how do we really know? We can take this delusion even further and think just because we have 100's of links on LinkedIn or the email address of everyone you ever met in a PDA we have an amazing business network also.

Although the guys at Manager Tools had a test of their own I have my own suggested health check to give your business network and client list.

Overall Health

• How many business contacts do you have?
• What percentage have you their full name, address, phone numbers and email address?
• How many have you made contact with in the last year?

Detailed Check

• How many have you met in the last 6-12 months?
• How many do you know the private mobile number and private email address for?
• How many do you know the spouses name and kids name?

The key to a relationship health check is quality and quantity of relationships. Once you know how healthy your relationships are you can work on improving them.

Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to check the health of your business (or other) relationships.