Develop Your Leadership Collaboration Skills

It takes a great entrepreneur with vision to start a business, but it requires strong leadership collaboration skills and a collaboration of many people to make it a success.

Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, Note that collaboration is NOT cooperation …it is more than the intersection of common goals, but a collective determination to reach an identical objective by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.

Collaboration is an attribute that cuts across many businesses and business processes. We need to make it an intentional process and cultivate it into the team’s culture.

That’s where leadership comes in as a key ingredient, to drive the collaborative process to make the whole team better than the sum of the parts.

It all starts with how to be the leader in your own life, but then extends to learning the following skills she outlines for building a great collaborative team:

Build and maintain trust … trust is a key element we all need to set aside vulnerability, but it is hard to build, and easy to lose. It is not built on words, but through actions and evidence. Only when it works can a team address the necessary issues to win.

Expect conflict to reach consensus … conflicts and fights are not the same thing. Conflicts are normal and required factual push backs in…