Working Collaboratively: 17 Simple Tips to Build Collaborative Teams

How many times in your business career have you been in an organization where real energy was expended to build collaborative teams? How successful were these efforts? Working collaboratively is not an easy task, is it? But we’d all agree that the payoffs certainly outweigh the efforts, wouldn’t we?

Check out our thoughts on team leverage.Over the years of my career, I’ve had the good fortune of being exposed to many smart people and working as part of many teams trying to build team collaboration. It never ceases to amaze me how just a few moments of discussion, or sitting and listening to well-thought-out debates, can open your mind to ideas you can’t believe you didn’t think of on your own. Creative convergence depends on group collaboration … how well do you work in groups?

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I have always found the wisdom of others to be something of a gift: free of charge, with no limit to its value. No limits to its value because these pearls of wisdom can be connected to some of your ideas to produce something greater than what you might have created on your own.

Creative ideas on how to build collaborative teams must include exploring, imagining, experimenting, and learning with others. Most of all…