Partnership Values Profile

A relationship profile for business partnerships, marriages and any couple that identifies the key values each person presently shares with their partner and those they do not share.

Based upon this analysis of their commonly shared and unshared values, it is possible for partners to clarify how they can best evaluate and fulfill their own needs and behaviors and make more effective and satisfying choices, without infringing the needs of the other.

The Partnership Values Profile is based on work of Dr. William Glasser, an internationally recognized psychiatrist who is best known as the author of Choice Theory and Reality Therapy.

Dr. Glasser suggests that the reason why so many people are unhappy in their professional and personal relationships is the need for power or dominance – what he calls, External Control Psychology – literally trying to force people to do what we want them to do. External Control Psychology undermines our personal sense of freedom and initiative. It thus destroys relationships both in the workplace, in our homes and in our educational institutions.

In contrast, Choice Theory suggests that to be both happy and effective we must satisfy our needs for power and control by learning mutual respect and releasing habits of criticizing, blaming, complaining, nagging, threatening, punishing and bribing our partners. Understanding our shared and differing values is an essential aspect of this learning.