
The Ladder of Relationships
Explore the four levels - Collaborative, Cooperative, Competitive, and Adversarial and what helps relationships lift higher.
Practical tools to build and sustain strong relationships, surface issues early and address them directly, communicate with clarity and honesty, and develop the self-awareness needed to self-regulate under pressure.

In Bullshift, we’re all about what we CAN control.
We’re professional adults, after all.
With proven principles, practical habits and a shared language, we can be more conscious and communicate more effectively.
The Bullshift Core Aims
Bullshift starts with the four Core Aims - they are spectrums, they’re scales. We look at our relationships, issues, self-expression and self-regulation through these four spectrums.

Explore the four levels - Collaborative, Cooperative, Competitive, and Adversarial and what helps relationships lift higher.

Use this simple tool to decide when to act on issues. Learn why early conversations matter and how to keep things lower on the curve.

Understand why we speak in Subtext, how it affects communication, and how to bring more honesty and alignment into the Text.

Increase self-awareness to recover faster from Shadowy moments and help your team spend more time in Best Self.


No matter the size or type of organisation, or what people do for work, some challenges are just human – we all need to learn:


Every team faces the same very human hurdles. We call them Core Aims because our aim is to be at the healthiest end of each spectrum and they are at the core of everything we do.
Trusted by leaders in government, finance, construction, mining, elite sport, healthcare and education, Bullshift has helped thousands of teams shift from frustration to collaboration.
Really good articulation of the 4 relationships and how to understand them in the work context. Very engaging presenting the topic. Plain English.
Really good articulation of the 4 relationships and how to understand them in the work context. Very engaging presenting the topic. Plain English.Laura, Team Shifty Participant
If we’re so casual and vague that we don’t GET CLEAR … If we’re so possessive and defensive that we can’t BE OPEN.
If we’re so polite or avoidant that we find it too hard to BE HONEST … Then we’re gonna find it really hard to COLLABORATE.
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