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BECOMING ANCHORS

An Anchor Relationship makes both of you
more capable than
either is alone.

Becoming Anchors is for two people who want to optimize their working relationship.

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BUILDING ANCHORS

A relationship built so that both people
perform at their best

Becoming Anchors is for two people who want to optimize their working relationship. Both people take the assessment and a Certified Coach turns the two reports into a shared path.

STEP 1

Discover what's
working and what isn't

STEP 2

Choose a path,
together

STEP 3

Strengthen it on
purpose

THE ANCHOR RELATIONSHIPS® MODEL

What an anchor relationship is made of

Two people are the two strands. The nine dimensions are the bonds between them, grouped under three qualities. Together they form a structure that holds more than either person could carry alone.

GROWTH

QUALITY 1: Mutual Investment Growth

1.A

Handling Disagreement

Disagreement becomes a source of learning rather than a reason to pull back.

1.B

Respecting Choices

Each backs the direction the other actually wants, not the one that looks right from outside.

1.C

Two-Way Growth

Development runs both ways. Each builds capability the other had a hand in.

EFFICACY

QUALITY 2: Enhancement Of Self-Efficacy

2.A

Recognizing Strengths

Each names strengths in the other that the other could not see alone.

2.B

Building Independence

Support builds confidence that holds when the other person is not in the room.

2.C

Working Together

What they solve together leaves both more capable once the conversation ends.

VALUES

QUALITY 3: Values Coherence

3.A

Speaking Honestly

Each can say what they believe without trimming it to fit.

3.B

Genuine Conviction

Values-aligned action comes from conviction, not from a wish to please the other.

3.C

Living Their Values

Values-aligned action comes from conviction, not from a wish to please the other.

WHEN TO USE IT

Some relationships are worth building deliberately.

Becoming Anchors is for a single relationship whose strength changes what each person can do. It fits situations like these:

Co-founders and partners

Two people whose working relationship is the load-bearing wall of the venture.

A manager and a direct report

Where status difference shapes what gets said, and where development is the point.

Cross-functional peers

Two leaders who share accountability without sharing a reporting line.

A leader and a successor

Where capability has to transfer, not  just decisions.

A new pairing under pressure

A relationship being built in real time,  with high stakes from day one.

A relationship in repair

Where something has frayed and both people want a clear place to start.

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH

**A relationship that holds when the pressure is highest, and capacity that stays with each of you.**

Built deliberately, an anchor relationship is what two people draw on when change, uncertainty, and competing pressures work against them. You build it once, together, and each of you carries what it produces into every room the other is not in.

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Becoming Anchors is delivered through Authorized Anchor Relationships® Coaches, who administer both assessments, read the reports as one picture, and lead the shared session where the goals get set.

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