Relationship Quality Assessment

Your client is highly effective at managing up and managing stakeholder relationships. They have invested years in the relationships most visible to their career and have quietly neglected the ones that sustain them - their spouse, two close friends from before their career accelerated, and a mentor who has not heard from them in fourteen months. They are not in crisis but there is a flatness to their account of relationships outside of work. When asked directly about the personal relationships, they use the word 'fine.' The word 'fine' has appeared in three consecutive sessions.

Frame this as the same rigor applied to relationships that your client applies to everything else. 'You run quarterly re...