The pressure that individuals and their families go through to develop and maintain a business career is well known. People acquire great knowledge and skill in business development, with detailed marketing and sales plans, budgets and financial forecasts – but no forecasts are made of the pressure a business may inflict on a family.

Relationship Capital by Dr Carlos Raimundo focuses on business leadership, personal life management and useful skills in developing and maintaining a better style of life. The book provides clear tips which highlight areas of risk to prevent relationship breakdown, and outlines remedial tools to put into practice when the situation has already created some damage.

“It is the type of relationships people have that provides the platform for true progression towards prosperity, creating balance in life,” says Dr Raimundo. “ Work satisfaction becomes impossible to maintain if you do not have life satisfaction.  We need to develop the skills to create more time for relationships.  The good news is – these can be learned.”

“When people affected by life with a busy partner look back on their lives, they can see clear signs early in the process indicating that things were going from bad to worse. It is the pressure caused by one partner maintaining a busy working life that often creates the breakdown that takes every family stakeholder by surprise and as a result can damage the very foundation of an organisation.”

Relationship Capital makes intangible relationships tangible and material so they become the cornerstone of true success. Dr Raimundo argues that acceptable corporate performance cannot be sustained without built-in notions of personal satisfaction and wellbeing. While acknowledging that an organisation’s true wealth is its human capital, the author explains that it is the health of our relationships that determines our business success and quality of life.

Using dialogue from real coaching sessions, case studies and an innovative role-playing technique called the Play of Life, Relationship Capital demonstrates how to: