Your Collaboration Challenges

What’s challenges do you face in your collaborations?

We’d like to hear from you about the challenges you face when  you’re collaborating. These could be challenges you face a a team member, team leader, facilitator, manager, or n your informal collaborations with friends and partners,

Having someone to talk to — to dialogue with — when we have those challenges is extremely valuable. 

Here’s some tips that we use to get into the “Collaborative Zone”.

• Listen with our whole Self
• Respect ourself and others fully
• Suspend our assumptions, beliefs, and opinions
• Voice our truth clearly and accurately, knowing that it is not the truth  

The People Side of Collaboration

Yes, one more site about collaboration . . . but this one is different, it’s more about the people “factor” and less about the technology . . . although we will talk about technology (how could we not!)

When 2 or more people work together with a common purpose there is the potential for collaboration. I say potential because what most people call collaboration is most often “cooperation”. Which isn’t bad . . . but it’s just not the same as full-on “collaboration”.

Collaboration brings out the best in people and they bring their best to the table. The creative leaps are made by teams that can really collaborate. The best prpoducts come from teams that collaborate well.

On this blog we’d like to explore with you tips, techniques, tactics and strategies that help people collaborate better. We’re calling the teams that outperform all the others, the teams that have the most satisfied members, as well as the most satisfied clients and customers . . . “Advanced Collaborative Teams”, because they are!

. . . More to come.