Collaboration

Collaboration expert Gretchen Anderson explains in practical terms how collaboration works, what it can accomplish, how to organize collaborative teams and which common collaboration pitfalls to avoid. Companies suffer when colleagues can’t get together effectively to develop smart solutions to problems. Collaboration provides an opportunity to work with groups of people with diverse backgrounds and varied points of view!

*5 Take-Aways from this book*:
1. Collaborations won’t work without MUTUAL TRUST.
2. Collaborations need defined objectives.
3. When it comes to starting a collaboration, having more people involved is better. Eventually, reduce the number of participants to a core group.
4. Effective collaborations require planning and a well-defined structure.
5. In any collaboration, one person should make the end decision, not the group.

One more thing” ”
> Use detailed documentation to keep stakeholders apprised of the group’s activities, to manage their expectations and to ensure that your work is what the stakeholders want. Consider that team members should never assume that the stakeholders and other observers will fully understand and appreciate what the team develops 🙂