Examples of ShakeTool Applications
Use ShakeTool with anyone you want to have better expression and understanding with in all contexts of life including work, business, family and social interactions. Here is a partial list of applications for ShakeTool:
| Application/situation | Sampling of reasons to have "Shakes" |
View Example (pdf) |
| Between friends | Conflict avoidance or resolution, improvements, activities or responsibilities, assuring understanding and distributing, trips, planning, childcare, requests for assistance, reunions, clubs, sports and hobby activities, career assistance |
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| Pre-marital understanding | Gaining a greater understanding of each other's needs and aversion,desensitizing and precipitating expression and disclosure, general early communications and expression, distributing and accepting responsibilities, dating sharing of information and gaining understanding, Co-habitating arrangements, wedding planning, problem solving | Co-habitation (pdf) |
| Supervisor to worker | Proposals and performance expectations, work role understanding and agreement, surveying and polling, accountability distribution, communication, assignments, problem solving, idea/improvement generation, talent attraction (retention), engagement, understanding, on-boarding and assimilation, conflict resolution | Introducing new accountability to improve performance (pdf) |
| Worker to supervisor | Proposals and value propositions, suggestions, cost cutting initiatives, problem solving, performance feedback, idea/improvement proposal, negotiations, work role understanding and agreement, personal marketing and expression, conflict resolution | Idea for reducing waste (pdf) |
| Parent with Child | Chores/home responsibilities, instruction, guidelines, boundaries and conditions, dating or driving rules and conditions, discipline, scholastic expectations/performance, curfew, behavior, recognition, medicine/drug/drinking policies, understanding, accountabilities and agreements |
Mobile phone privileges (pdf) |
| Child with Parent | Allowance, requests for permission, sibling relationship issues, reaching understanding |
Sleep-over Permission request (pdf) |
| Business to Consumers | Marketing, sales, proposals, assurances, negotiations, remedies and problem solving, offers and bids, surveys, polling, understanding, distribution of accountabilities, simplification, clarification or emphasis of a separate agreement/contract, arbitration, advocacy, pre-contract content crafting | Landlord to tenet emphasizing key points of lease (pdf) |
| Business to Business |
RFPs, vendor relations, collaborative arrangements, conflict avoidance or resolution, partnerships, negotiations, arbitration, marketing/sales, procurement, verifications, crafting contracts, distributing accountabilities, assuring understanding |
Supplier to Client Relationship Improvment Clarification of expectations to a contractor (pdf) |
| Consumer to Business/Contractor | Home repair, health/dental/wellness, automotive services, baby sitting, elder care, landscaping, financial planning/investing, wedding, education planning, bids, proposals and agreements, understanding and agreement |
Home repair (pdf) |
| Between neighbors | Property agreements, barter arrangements, neighborhood/community, conflict avoidance or resolution, improvements, activities or responsibilities, pet issues, assuring understanding and distributing accountabilities |
Resolving shared property line issue (pdf) |
| Marriage wellness or remedy | Relationship improvement, desensitizing and precipitating expression, seeking remedies, negotiation, distributing accountability, better communications, parenting approaches, elder care, financial resolutions, home improvements, vacation plans, retirement plans, conflict resolution |
A spouse going back to work needing help from the other (pdf) |
| Ex-marriage or partnership | Financial resolutions, child care and custody approaches, conflict resolution, avoidance of legal issues, reconciliation, pet or shared investment issues |
Resolving parenting approaches (pdf) |
| Teacher and student | Performance expectations, remedial steps, special needs, project/assignment clarity, field trips, accountability, understanding and agreement |
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| Teacher and parent |
Education plans, remedial steps, special needs, support issues, understanding, accountability and agreement |
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| Coach and athlete |
Training plans, personal or team goals, workout commitments, assignments, dietary plans, weight loss, understanding, accountability and agreement |
Coaching first triathlon (pdf) |