The Truth About Collaborating

<b>This book offers a refreshing approach that provides unique insights examples tools techniques checklists and templates for successful collaborations.</b><p>Now more than ever before organizations are encouraging work collaboration both in-person and remotely to increase productivity enhance innovation and attain the best results. However leaders and teams often lack the essential knowledge tools and techniques required to avoid failure and achieve optimal outcomes.</p><p>This book offers a refreshing approach that provides unique insights examples tools techniques checklists and templates for successful collaborations. It opens with a review of the collaboration decagon of competencies-a self-test to reveal strengths gaps and practical tips to apply. Then collaboration mindfulness is explained and guidelines based on the COIN model explain how to put this crucial mindset into action. Next practical advice is offered for how to both encourage and manage discussion and disagreement throughout all four phases of the collaboration process.</p><p>Having a clear focus for the collaboration topic as a problem or an opportunity is reviewed in detail with tips on how to decide and discuss most efficiently. Guidelines for how to manage conflict and deal with challenging people are offered based on strategies for each of the four conflict stages. Additionally whole-brain techniques are explained to help collaboration teams invent the most unique options and solutions for innovation and change. The book concludes with proven strategies for how to overcome eight common obstacles to collaborations with confidence.</p>