Relationship Management
“What really matters for success, character, happiness, and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills”
-Daniel Goleman
Introduction
Just like our basic necessities of life, our relationship with ourselves and with others is also necessary to maintain the right balance between our emotional intelligence and our mental wellbeing. We all have that one person who possesses any or all of the traits mentioned below:
- An introvert
- Denies everything and anything shared
- Professionally successful yet personally facing many challenges
- Personally feeling low or lost confidence in themselves
Have I stated some of the familiar traits? Do you know this person? Sometimes, we even wonder why someone is overreacting to something of less importance. But the truth is we do not know what the other person is going through. This was the same thought when one of our co-founders recommended “Relationship Management as one of the C-Park Services”.
The sole reason behind this service is to help an individual recover from any sort of conflict he is experiencing with himself or with others. We might take this on a lighter note or might even be advised to either ignore or let it go but this conflict is something that has to be resolved at the earliest, be it personal, social, or in any professional scenario. Also, a few Medical Data prove that most neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s have an impact on people who are undergoing stress or feeling insecure, or are in denial with the present.
Role of C-Park
The term relationship covers a broad range of people who might be connected to your life for a longer period or a very short span. However, maintaining a good rapport with everyone is a great virtue and we at C-Park, provide support to every relationship management issue. A relationship can be classified into the following five types:
- Personal relationship – With self
- Relationship with family members – Mother, Father, Siblings, In-laws
- Non-formalized relationships – Friends, Neighbors, Boy/Girlfriend
- Formalized relationships – Colleagues, Teacher, Manager, Doctor
- Other relationships – Strangers, Travelers
Areas of Concern
Usual or unexpected concerns
This category includes some of the most common concerns that are faced by a normal person such as an accident, loss of economic support, severe/prolonged illness, death, unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, being far from the family due to work, etc.
Parenting concerns
Just as the name suggests, this category is oriented to close family members who might be the reason or the one facing the relationship issue such as stepfather or stepmother, orphan, adopted child, pampering the children too much, parenting decision
Children related concerns
This focuses mainly on the child’s behavior, environment, and growth. Some of the concerns are intense irritability, irresponsible, too much or too little sleep, isolation, fear or worry, poor performance in academics, not making friends easily, addiction to smoking/alcohol, engage in self-harming behaviors
Crisis arising from family conflict situations
Certain decisions made by the family members can harm the entire family such as divorce or separation, extramarital affairs, an unwanted child in the family, conflict between relatives, nagging among spouses, sticking to family traditions and culture
Crisis involve social factors
The interference of society highly affects the peaceful environment of the house. Especially, with the presence of a mentally or physically challenged child, transgender, economic instability, social status paves way for the society to talk about them
Geriatric considerations
Sometimes, a relationship is broken or ill-treated due to the following factors, weakness, weight loss, low physical activity, visual/hearing impairment, cognitive impairment, dependency, insomnia
Workplace relationship concerns
A workplace is where we meet, connect, and work with new faces and this is the place where one experiences most of the relationship concerns which can be due to sexual harassment, bullying or unpleasant behavior, decreased morale, stealing of credit, complaints, or favoritism from coworkers
General relationship concerns
Generally, the root cause of having a misunderstanding in a relationship is lack of communication, gossips, dependency, mistrust, cheating, taking each other for granted, lack of appreciation.
At C-Park, we engage people who come in for counseling with various self-evaluating sessions and counsel them on a regular basis. We try to help them create an optimistic attitude towards life and help them understand the importance of fellow-beings. Our method of approach is as follow:
- One-to-one counseling
- Self-awareness, self-acceptance coaching
- Group sessions with people sharing their success stories
- Practical approach to overcome fear and anxiety
- Review after reaching milestones
- Audio/Video tracks to prompt their hidden potential
- Art therapy etc.,
Why C-Park?
C-Park is known for its team of skilled mental health specialists, counselors & psychiatrists. We observe, analyze and then recommend solutions. Our assistance can be observed in the following ways:
- Assist to accept the reality
- Help to shift your perspective wisely
- Assist to let go of the past
- Guide to forgive and forget
- Train to make healthy arguments
- Help to know about the damaging cycles
- Guidance on Work-life balance
- Help to communicate clearly with empathy and compassion
- Build trust and confidence
- Practice kindness and gratitude
Apart from counseling;
- The concerns shared by the individual remains 100% confidential
- We do not judge or assume the disorders
- We provide only result-oriented counseling sessions
- We do it as a part of our service and not as a business opportunity
She says, “C-Park taught me Relationship Management in its right sense.”
“Be it personal or professional, to have a cordial relationship with everyone is a must.”
We are happy to share the success story of a woman, who initially struggled to have a happy relationship with her fellow workers. She worked as a Human Resource Officer in a company for more than 5 years. Later due to career growth, she moved on to a bigger firm and was offered the role of a team lead. She was assigned four trainees who looked up to her to understand the company’s rules and policies. Since it was a new role, she found it difficult to assign and coordinate with her trainees. To work as a team was something she had to enforce, yet she was not able to convey it in the proper way.
Though she wanted to have a good rapport with her team members, she failed to treat them as fresher. She imposed heavy works on them and when failed to finish, her behavior and attitude towards them were rude and harsh. The new place, the pace of work, and people’s denial of her attitude worsened the situation. It also reflected on her personal life. She remained mentally disturbed the whole time and was not able to focus on anything. Her family was worried about her mental well-being and so they approached C-Park. She agreed to undergo counseling as she had a future planned. She was very well analyzed by one of our experienced counselors. Our counselor guided her using some of the following techniques;
- SWOT analysis
- Why she needs her team’s support?
- Few ways to help her guide the newbies
- Socializing with her team through outings
- To discuss her issues with family
- Reading books on a daily basis and many more
“When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.”
– Tara Meyer Robson
She was strong enough to understand her flaws and responded to the counseling in a very healthy way. We were amazed to see her transformation and overwhelmed to see her team’s response to her changed behavior. Yes, just like a fairy tale, the team and their team lead worked together as a team happily ever after. If you happen to meet anyone with such an imbalance in their emotions, kindly reach out to us.