Being a Good Partner Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is “being a good partner”. Living in an age that stresses the importance of efficiency, people are supposed to possess the ability to collaborate with others. Collaboration not only saves our time and energy, but also allows partners to learn from their teammates and get self-improvement. Realizing the trend, we should aim to become good partners. It is a popular view that we should only cope with the ones for whom we have affection, that working pleasantly with someone you like, sharing your laughters and tears are the ideal pictures of collaboration. However, few people have come to realize the benefit and necessity of being a partner of someone you dislike, which is also a valuable practice during which you can learn to put up with others’ faults as well as to discover their shining points. The idea is that you should learn to collaborate with all kinds of people, which certainly needs some skills. From my perspective, there are three points that are important in collaboration. Foremost of all is try to stand in others’ shoes so that conflicts caused by difference in notion may be avoided. Second, you should find your unique position in your team. There is always a role that fits you most. Finally, take time to listen to others and get knowledge of your partners as much as possible. Wish you all become good partners! That’s all for my speech. Thanks for listening.