Fostering Positive Relationship at work

What I have observed as a Scrum Master, we have taken this topic as one of the important items to practice.


Though it is for all, in coaching we give importance to the relationship as a key enabler in collaboration


In Agile transformation when collaboration is key, especially when we are going for large scale transformation.



My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together. Cindy McCain
How scrum master resolves some of the conflicting priorities without having a better working relationship with many scrum teams? We need to learn this skill.


Let us look into the below practice and rehearse for sometime

• It takes time to establish a stable relationship. Have patience and continue to have a trusting relationship.
• Establish trust, give utmost attention to strengthen trust. It is one of the essential for a long lasting relationship
• Take care of your emotion when dealing with others. Calm down when you are with others.
• Identify a common ground for a win-win solution
• Express yourself and share what is significant. The more you share another person will also share more. It creates binding.
• Be positive and optimistic with others
• Support your team members, people like when someone cares about them
• Appreciate when you find something remarkable has been accomplished by your colleagues
• Show curiosity to discover more, it will encourage you to understand other better
• Discuss something else other than work and pick up the common interest
• Do not try to educate others without their concern, including free advice
• Let us not interrupt, let others finish
• Always highlight the benefit when someone is working with you
• Explain what motivates your in the work, highlight the positive aspects of the work, it inspires others also
• Walk the talk in the change initiative
• Look for an opportunity to the social gathering
• Build knowledge power and earn respect for it
• Listen, listen and demonstrate care.We have 2 ears and 1 mouth
• Respect others view and encourage others to express more
• Always keep your promise and commitment
• Nasty gossip at work is poisonous
• The blame game does not work, it creates more side effect, try to understand the big picture
• Strengthen your likability factors, raise all those factors

Sincerely practice these for sometime, I do see that these behaviors when I meet with few great scrum masters.

We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society. Justin Trudeau