A revelation my clients often have is, “I never realized my team was in 3 different roles for this one collaboration effort. No wonder, things aren’t going so well. It never occurred to us that we were also the customer!” The number of roles your group may be...

I wanted to follow-up on the first article in my blog this year with an acronym to help you to remember to think deeper about why you’re experiencing challenges collaborating with other teams or individuals. When someone on your team makes a statement such as:...

I wanted to write a follow-up blog to the one I posted March 3 which I dug out of the archives from a podcast interview 5 years ago. As mentioned in that previous blog, the lack of a clearly communicated Collaborative Success Definition (CSD) is a big contributor to...

A common collaboration challenge is that a key component from a collaborator (team or individual) is delivered late or it does not fully meet your defined acceptance criteria. Very often this is due to the collaborator’s time being reprioritized by a competing project...

A headline like that gets your attention. Of course it’s not really news. Complaints like that have been abounding since before I wrote the Cross Group Collaboration workshop in 2006. I think it’s important to ask, what is causing “collaboration” to fail? There are...

Continuing down memory lane to begin my blog series, I came across a podcast from 2010 with Todd Hudson from OnboardYourself.com (a site designed to help interns and new hires take charge of their own onboarding success). We were discussing the importance of...

Colleagues and clients have been asking me to write a blog for some time now about collaboration. I’ve resisted with the usual line: I’m too busy. As part of many 2015 New Year’s resolutions, however, I decided to give it a try. To begin, I thought I’d look through...