CBOK

The RNIA Common Body of Knowledge that serves as the basis for Relationship Capital standards, and that enables certification.

RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL

A measurement assigned to individual and organizational entities based on the relationship interactions between them, and the interactions they have internally.

EARLY ADOPTERS

Companies that are collaborating in RNIA to deliver the products and services needed for widespread adoption of Relationship Capital.

CBOK

VALUE PROPOSITION

Common Body of Knowledge ("CBOK") is RNIA's principal "product". CBOK serves as the basis for building and maintaining healthy relationships, the well-known key to success in business, career and personal lives.

Besides learning how to apply relationship best-practices, CBOK users can earn Relationship Capital ("RC"), a simple, powerful way to measure their effectiveness in building and maintaining healthy relationships. To learn more about CBOK and RC, please see the CBOK home page.

CBOK's continual learning helps people build and maintain healthy relationships within enterprises, across organizational boundaries and across cultures. RC captures and measures the commitments that are key to success in personal and business lives.

The  following demonstrates a few CBOK value propositions: 

• Be employed by a company on the strength of your CBOK skills.

• Offer a product or service that supports CBOK.

• Offer CBOK consulting services.

• Offer a product or service that supports CBOK.

• Help an organization become "infected" with the spirit of CBOK.

• Create a formal CBOK function in an organization.

• Find employment in a company as the person responsible for managing its formal CBOK function.

• Apply CBOK to strengthen commitments in project management.

• Apply CBOK to solve a company's tough problems.

• Apply CBOK in an organization's marketing, sales or human resources.

• Help children adopt CBOK at an early age.

• Conduct and/or publish CBOK research or statistics.

• Apply CBOK in an industry initiative to solve an entrenched problem.

• Use CBOK to improve an existing business model.

• Hire an individual to establish a formal CBOK function.

• Create an entirely new kind of service based on CBOK.

• Create CBOK learning and training programs.

• Apply CBOK to bridge differences among cultures, regions or countries.

• Explore the effect of CBOK on government constituencies.

• Apply CBOK in online games.

• Apply CBOK in soft skills, including skills related to personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness and personal optimism.

To discuss specific ways to leverage RNIA's CBOK in your business, please write us at members@RNIA.org.