Relationship Goals Worksheet

Professional and personal growth rarely happens in isolation from the relationships surrounding it. The quality of key relationships - with direct reports, peers, sponsors, partners, family - shapes what is possible, what is sustainable, and what gets in the way. Most leaders know which relationships need attention. Fewer have done the work of being specific about what that attention would actually look like.

This worksheet makes that work concrete. The rating step is the entry point - putting a number on each relationship creates a baseline and surfaces where the biggest gaps are. The more valuable step is the one that follows: naming one specific improvement, and then naming the action that would move toward it. Vague intentions to "communicate better" or "spend more time" do not change relationships. Specific commitments do.

Two things to watch for as you complete this: first, the relationships that are hardest to rate honestly tend to be the ones most worth examining. Second, the "biggest impact" reflection question is often answered differently than expected - the relationship with the most room for growth is not always the one that would matter most if it changed.

Complete each row before moving to the reflection section. The patterns only become visible when you can see all the relationships at once.