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Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team
When you break down the hardest and best parts of life, it comes down to relationships. Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team focuses on the power of building healthy relationships to promote positive team culture. Covering topics like trust, communication skills, conflict resolution, empathy, and comparison, each of the ten chapters give you strategies to transform your relationships and team dynamic. As an added bonus, every relationship in your life will benefit!
With stories and practical examples, Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team is a fun book to read through on your own or with your team! Each chapter includes journal prompts for self-reflection or team discussion. Get ready to:
- Grow faster towards your goals as a team and as an individual
- Resolve conflict in a positive way rather than avoid it
- Learn to communicate effectively
- Appreciate others and the value of community
- Build skills to create healthier future relationships with family, friends, & co-workers
- Learn principles that will lead to a more successful life
What People Are Saying About
Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team
“Rachel’s book, Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team: Ten Keys for Building Positive Dance Team Culture is full of analogies that inspire conversations. From tire dragging, to backpacks, to glitter, the stories will resonate with students and linger, much like parables. I recommend parents, students, directors, and even grandparents to purchase the book and discuss the Reflection sections with their young adults. Practical and powerful, it will open the door for “gems” that can change their work, team, and relationships in the future.”
-Mary Wendt, Former USASF Dance Education Director, Enrichment and Leadership Director, and MA Vice President
Mrs. Caldwell has been a pivotal part of shaping who I am today. She has better helped me understand how to become a caring and understanding leader. Being on a big team can be hard at times, but through “team time” we were able to create a bond that goes beyond just teammates. The elements in this book were a key part in the success of our team. These values are still a major part of my life.
-Manasy Muralee, Former Student
“Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team is a must read for all Directors and Teams. The content is relevant, and I guarantee any student and/or Director from any background can relate to this book. This book gives great examples of issues that teams are experiencing today and provides questions that will allow you and your team to think deeper and get to the root of not only what the issue is, but ways to solve it. This is a great tool for any team at the start of the year or resource to use in the middle of the year when contest season is in full swing and stress levels are high. I know we plan to incorporate Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team into our officer tryout process. I can’t wait to see how our future leaders grow in their relationships with their peers, which will continue to allow for a healthy team culture.”
-Samandra Nail, Tomball Memorial Silver Stars Director
“Thinking back to the beginning of my career as a director, I wish that I would have had this incredible resource to use—not only for my students—but also for myself. It truly would have changed my life as a dance educator, director, and mentor. The tools presented within Healthy Relationships = Healthy Team have such an incredible impact and can truly be aligned with not only the Dance Team community, but any organization that has student leaders. The content is genuine, relatable and will help guide individuals within their leadership roles, but most importantly throughout their lives.”
-Betsy Heathcock, Dance Educator & TDEA Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement, Director of the Year & Past President
“Rachel Caldwell has given us a relationship “do-well, serve-well and live-well” guide with poignant, clear, helpful and foundational tools for having positive success in creating a healthy dance team. This book is a must purchase to benefit leaders personally as well equip them to lead their team with quality communication to be better dancers cooperating as a community and more importantly, better humans.”
-Cynthia Newland, Founder, Dancer Wellness Care – Fueling Health Performance
Of all the wonderful things my daughter experienced in high school, nothing prepared her for life more than the four years she was blessed to be led, coached, and mentored by Rachel Caldwell. College roommates, group projects, leading teams, first jobs and so many other challenging interpersonal situations await young adults. Having the skill to navigate conversations and relationship dynamics in a healthy, winsome way is one of the most valuable lessons we can pass on.
-Chris Nilsson, IT Director