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Conditions for collaboration

Conditions for collaboration

From the course: Increasing Collaboration on Your Team

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Conditions for collaboration

- True collaboration requires special conditions. Ones that are more difficult to create than you might think. To help you succeed, I want to provide you with a few things you should put in place to create true collaboration. First, the task or project must truly be collaborative in nature. It has to be a shared vision that all the members care about but the way forward or solution is not clear, and could potentially go in many different ways. Second, the team members must have the skills to be able to engage in collaboration. They need the ability to build relationships with others. Developing trust even when they don't see eye to eye. They have to be willing to create or innovate and not just stick with the tried and true, or status quo. They also must be comfortable with conflict and skilled at working through it while preserving relationships. Did you know that conflict about a task can increase creativity, but…

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