Following up on my June blog to save collaboration time by making meetings more efficient (or choosing not to attend meetings where your input isn’t helping you meet your individual and team goals), I want to address another point raised by Cross, Rebele, and Grant in...

Collaboration has been getting a good deal of press recently. One Harvard Business Review (HBR) article in particular raised some points I’d like to address. I’m referencing ‘Collaboration Overload’ from the January-February issue of HBR by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele and...

So far, I’ve discussed some practical tools to help you clearly communicate your collaboration goals or success criteria and identified other tools or techniques to help mitigate challenges. However, we all know these tools will not solve 100% of the challenges we...

As discussed in a blog article last May, one of the consistent complaints I receive when I ask clients about their top 3 collaboration challenges, is “conflicting priorities.” In that blog, I introduced a tool to help identify incentives or benefits for collaborators....

Following our discussion about the influence you have in a specific role (my previous blog was about the Individual Contributor), I’d like to next address your effectiveness in the role of “Customer.” We define “customer” as the entity (internal or external to your...

I’d like to follow-up on the last blog article regarding the role you’re in for a collaboration effort and how effective you are in that role (or roles). Let’s tackle the issue of influence, starting with the Individual Contributor (IC)—the person who actually...