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A Credo For Co-Workers
(I suggest you post this in your office and urge everyone to read it and follow it.) You & I are in a relationship at work, which I value. Yet each of us is a separate person with unique needs and the right to meet those needs.
When you are having problems meeting your needs, I will try to listen with genuine acceptance. I will also try to respect your right to choose your own beliefs and develop your own values, different though they may be from mine.
When your behavior interferes with what I must do to get my own needs met, I will tell you openly and honestly how your behavior affects me, Also whenever my behavior is unacceptable to you, I hope you will tell me openly & honestly so I can try to modify what I do.
If we find that nether of us can change to meet the other’s needs, let us acknowledge that we have a conflict & commit ourselves to resolving the conflict without resorting to win-lose tactics. I respect your needs, as well as, my own. Let us always strive for a win-win solution that will be acceptable to both of us.
In this way, you can continue to develop as a person through satisfying your needs, and so can I. Thus, ours can be a healthy relationship in which both of us strive to become what we are capable of being and continue to relate to each other with mutual respect.
(Adapted by Judi Clements from a piece from Cooperative Education, Community College of Denver)
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