Loans allow you to create a vision
If any of these issues is a stressor for you in forming a partnership, make a list of the objectives you’d like to accomplish for that issue. As you begin to form the partnership, make sure you address these issues with your partner. Develop a plan to ensure that any stressors have a positive outcome.
To help deal with partnership stressors, I use a model to explain the dynamic of change. You can use this model in forming business partnerships as well as in your personal life. The first step is to know where you’re going.You do this by creating a vision of what the change will look like when you’ve arrived. I once asked a marketing manager to think about what would happen if he partnered with the production manager. He responded by saying: “Well, we’d talk to each other regularly, we’d problem-solve issues, and we’d work together to meet production and shipping deadlines.” After thinking about this for a minute, he got very excited and said: “I think I get it! Now all I have to do is put a plan together to accomplish these three items and I’m on my way.” “Close,” I said. Then I mentioned that it would be helpful if he included his production partner in the discussions. “Oh, yeah,” he said, “I forgot about him!” Even the best intentions can go haywire when we forget about our partner.