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Category Archives: CollaborationIn the first part of this series, 3 Keys to Extraordinary Collaboration – Part 1, we examined three keys to collaboration: Exchange + Expansion + Integrity. Remember, we can’t successfully collaborate until we’re “in exchange.” To be in exchange, each … Continue reading
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In my experience, competition and collaboration are neither opposite ends of a some relationship continuum nor alternating conditions. They are actually complimentary forces. In fact, competition and collaboration are precessionary, that is, each is a naturally occurring, unintended consequence of … Continue reading When you greet teammates you haven’t seen for a while, how do you “check in?” Do you have a check-in practice that promotes both personal power and team building? If not, consider using mine. It’s a practice I learned years … Continue reading
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Faith that teamwork can emerge in a group is fundamental to successful team building. This essential element of team building can be put into practice in your team. More often than not, a group of people who clearly share responsibility … Continue reading
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I want to dispel the myth that responsibility is an inherent personality characteristic. Responsibility is learnable — my client’s results prove it over and over again. With the advances of the last twenty-five years responsibility is a directly observable, learnable, … Continue reading The first significant hurdle for any project team effort is to establish clarity around the purpose of the project. No project can be successful without clarity of mission. Properly orienting a new project team ensures that the team starts off … Continue reading Are you willing to be completely response-able: for yourself? for a family? for a process, team or department? for the entire company? for a church or community effort or project? for a neighborhood or city? for a state for a … Continue reading Everyone says they want to be on a winning team. And nobody ever says they want to be on a lousy team. So how come we end up on frustrating teams much of the time? Here are the steps you … Continue reading I developed the following model to communicate the essence of partnering between any two entities, whether people or groups, and whether external or internal to an organization: Partnering = Exchange + Expansion + Integrity Let’s look at collaborating across boundaries … Continue reading In Learn The Most Powerful Tool for Managing Peer Motivation, I told you about the best tool I know for managing peer motivation (if you find a better one let me know). Today, I’ll share my keys for creating designer … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Collaboration, communication skills, Management Training, Responsibility, Teamwork
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