Collaboration is seen as a given in working life. Being part of a team means cooperating with others on all kinds of projects. But the reality is few of us learn how to collaborate. And when a collaboration fails it can leave such bad scars that the people involved never want to work together again.
With the stresses that have come with the Covid years – including the online workplace – many of us have found our collaboration skills tested to their limits.
This episode of Let’s Find Common Ground features professor and collaboration expert Dr. Deb Mashek, author of the forthcoming book Collabor(hate): how to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone).
Deb found that three-quarters of people have been in at least one collaboration they loathed. But she says if more of us learn some simple skills, these kinds of disasters can be avoided and we’ll be able to find a lot more common ground. A
https://commongroundcommittee.org/common-ground-at-work-from-disaster-to-success/
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