Types of Interaction in Every Project. Recognize Your One and Make the Right Decision

Not horoscopes, not seasonal influences of apathy, not childhood injuries affect how a project goes. Remember these fundamental factors and components of the effective and mutually beneficial interaction.

There are components of any relationship, in this case we talk about the professional ones:

• values
• vision of the world
• goals
• ambitions
• moral restrictions
• professional and personal interests
• professional skills
• temperament, which includes a person’s speed at work, speed of decision making, reaction to criticism, victories and failures

The more common components have an any size team members, so it will be more effective results and more sustainable cooperation.

Let`s consider the types of relationships in team s— both equivalent in subordination, job responsibilities, authority, and in the position of “boss — inferior”.

The first type suggests the maximum of sympathy and compatibility on the most of parameters. In this case thoughts, concepts, connotations are catched on quick and don`t need any additional long explanations and arguments. Conflicts and disputes concerned of the relevance of ideas, project management and decisions are minimal. Offers are quickly picked up and receive the internal, not just external, approvals. Therefore, the ideas acquire quickly their material form, and hypotheses are tested rapidly too. With all the positive, even this type of interaction does not guarantee the long-term stability or absence of some force majeure.

The second type is the opposite of the first one, and varies by the degree of difference in all important components of cooperation — both in soft and hard skills. Despite the romantic idea that says “opposites attract”, to speak about a long-term and positive cooperation is rather difficult. Especially if all team members understand and accept their divergences. Accordingly to this, they are ready to break ties, change team members in order to find the “tecates”. Other opinions may be interesting as an experiment, for the brainstorming format, a “discussion table” and other event format, where fire and water are specifically contrasted to make a full-fledged SWOT analysis and to look at the situation from different sides. This type of interaction not always leads directly to open conflicts, but it does to disharmony and tension in an office, as well as discommunication, misunderstanding, confusion and uncertainty in a team members` steps.

The third type mixes the first one with the second one, so it includes both compatibility and differences of the interactions ingredients. It is interesting that such cooperation continues both thanks to and in despite of some things. Often everything rests on the loyalty, endurance, stability, hopes or needs of some team members. It also rests on the willingness to accept or put up with another participant in this “social experiment”. Sometimes a boss can show a great loyalty, expectation, pink dreams to someone inferior with thoghts he/she acclimatizes, enters the rhythm, learns, understands. Such case happens rarely, it is more often role for employees in relation to a new company, team, client, you know. If it concerns to the mates equal in subordination, you can overwatch the game and manipulation. It is always interesting who will succeed in winning and for how long to remain in the position of a winner with a scepter in his/her hands. However, this type of interaction is not always doomed to decay or failure. With certain benefits and temperaments of the team members, an advantage in the practical direction without the unquestioning division of values is not at all so negative.

The catch is that it is almost impossible to determine what type of cooperation you should expect when you start interacting with a person at the stage of an interview or on the first acquaintance. Only encountering with a real task and during the practicable cooperation or some crisis, it becomes immediately clear how harmoniously your project is progressing.

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