Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
Gretchen Andersonamazon.com
Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
Enlist Everyone to Boost Engagement
But these people may also prove difficult to change, so consider asking them to serve as a critic of the effort, rather than an idea generator, to best take advantage of their energy.
In these situations, collaborations, given the right space, can help a small group of trusted colleagues feel out the unknowns from different angles.
The company sees so much value in breaking down silos that they’re not as concerned about duplicating efforts and optimizing the creation of new ideas.
Interesting, os that still true?
Understand their priorities
Collaboration can take many forms, but at the core it’s a way to drive more innovative solutions to problems.
The ability to channel the experiences and skills of many people when solving a problem means you generate more potential solutions, and tests of those solutions, quickly.
The so-called solutions may not have been used or sustained once implemented because the people didn’t see them as something they had ownership of.
How do you make peole feel like thet have ownership tothe solution?
Enlist Everyone to Reduce Risks