80: How to Repair a Working Relationship with Sarah Chianese

How do you feel about your conflict resolution skills? Could they use some brushing up?

At some point in your career, you might experience a relationship with a coworker that goes sideways. It might be a passing comment that gets taken the wrong way or maybe an action that causes hurt and distrust. Whatever the cause, we all have to repair relationships from time to time.

Luckily for us, I know someone who can help. Sarah Chianese is here to teach us how to repair a working relationship in this episode of Design Your Wedding Business. She’s trained in conflict resolution and she has plenty of experience in the wedding and event space, so I know we’re in good hands.

Sarah Chianese (Key-uh-nay-zeh) is the owner and executive chef of Mangia and Enjoy!, a boutique wedding and event catering company based out of the Hudson Valley, NY, and Colorado Springs, CO. Her passion for utilizing local, organic farms and sustainable resources while creating customized global cuisine menus for a wide variety of luxury clientele has earned her many industry awards. Sarah also has extensive experience as a multi-media producer, a Certified Education Consultant for the NYC Board of Education, a Certified Dispute Resolution Mediator, and a PR consultant for NY1 News.

Topics We’re Covering in This Episode:

• The dynamics of different working relationships
• The importance of respect
• Things that can break relationships
• Reflecting on your role in working relationships
• Conflict resolution strategies
• How to know if it’s time to let go of a relationship
• The value of self-awareness
• Skills that will help you repair a working relationship

If you have a working relationship that’s not in the best place right now, try using the strategies from this episode to repair it. Not every relationship has to end just because something went wrong, so maybe this one can be saved.

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