Given collaboration is both difficult and essential, surely we make it a priority to teach people how to do it well, right?

24 Ways Collaboration Goes Sideways

You know you want to see more collaboration in your organization. But you also know this: All the time, money, and effort invested to date hasn’t delivered: collaboration is still falling short of its promise and potential. Bringing in a collaboration expert for a full engagement isn’t always feasible. (I get it--it’s pricey.) Here’s a powerful, more affordable approach: I’ve started working with organizations to design custom, leader-led workshops that your leaders facilitat

I interviewed leaders inside a large, mission-driven organization to figure out why collaboration was still painful– even though they had invested mightily to make it work : A major restructuring A new operating model explicitly designed to increase collaboration Clear messaging that “working together” was the new normal And yet… Collaboration still wasn’t working. Not consistently. Not reliably. Not at the level the organization needed. Why not? Here’s what we found: 1. Coll