WHY IS COLLABORATION AN IMPORTANT SKILL?
Some articles refer to collaboration as “the oil that helps keep the wheels of a team turning”. Collaboration means working well with someone else to accomplish a task or develop ideas together. Collaboration can happen in a number of contexts, such as at school, in your personal life or at work. Most workplaces require successful collaboration to achieve your professional goals.
Collaboration is now essential to a successful team. A team is defined as a combination of two or more people. The moment you work with another person, regardless of your relationship with them, collaboration skills come into play. It improves the way a group of people work together and solve problems. It leads to greater innovation, effective processes, increased success and improved communication.
By listening to and learning from team members, you can help each other achieve your goals. It takes a lot of work and some time, but collaboration is worth it for the benefits it will bring to your team. At work, collaboration can drive innovation, increase productivity and improve team satisfaction.
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Book
- Mastering Collaboration, Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive by Gretchen Anderson
Collaboration is key for organizations in the 21st century, yet few business people have been trained to teach this skill. How do you advance ideas in a collaborative way and then communicate them throughout your company? In this practical book, author Gretchen Anderson shows you how to generate ideas with others while gaining buy-in from all levels of your organization.
Podcast
- Team Collaboration Techniques: Good Teams Master These Skills by Nikola Baldikov
Collaboration drives team performance. Teams that work well together are more engaged, perform tasks with higher determination, and achieve higher levels of success. It seems simple enough. Yet good collaboration eludes teams everywhere. This podcast will help you improve each of the skills linked to collaboration
Video
- Improve your collaboration skills by ABC Life Literacy
Learn how to improve your collaboration skills with this mini lesson plan from the UP Skills for Work program.
Youtube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnSHNTILBg