From the course: Creating a Culture of Collaboration
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Overcome collaboration barriers
From the course: Creating a Culture of Collaboration
Overcome collaboration barriers
- What's stopping you from collaborating with others? What's stopping your team? According to the Leadership Research Institute, people are willing to collaborate when there's a personal connection, a common interest, or an otherwise compelling reason to do so. To move beyond excuses and get to the solutions, meet the technique that we call overcoming collaboration barriers. It's structured to open up dialogue about why people aren't collaborating, so you can identify the source of the resistance and address it. Start by asking each of your teams what prevents them from making collaboration part of their work day. Then list their responses on a whiteboard or flip chart. Common examples of barriers might include other teams that are in opposite time zones, or there's no real incentive to do it, or collaboration slows down our progress. Resist the instinct to defend or interrogate. Just encourage people to keep sharing…
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