Relationships are the Key to Team Collaboration

Collaboration is part of your Social Skills - a component of your Social Competence.

While Social Skills, in general, is related to your adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others - Collaboration relates to your ability to work with others towards shared goals.

People who have this competence usually:

• Balance a focus on task with attention to relationships.
• Collaborate with others sharing plans, information, and resources.
• Promote a friendly and cooperative climate.
• Spot and nurture opportunities for collaboration.

Business is not only about efficiency; it is also about relationships, getting along, sharing, and creating bonds between co-workers and everybody involved from top to bottom. The group who does not share this emotional bond is more likely to become paralyzed, dysfunctional or even to disintegrate under pressure.

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It’s Not About Where You Start, It’s Just About Starting

There's rarely a need to find the best place to start. All starting points are equally valid. Worrying about where to start a project often results in the worst of all possible consequences: never starting at all.

In improv, saying whatever comes to mind when it's your turn to speak is often far better than pausing while thinking of the "best" thing to say. Go with whatever you have and try to turn it into a good idea rather than trying to find a good idea before you start.

You can apply this maxim to speeches. Instead of writing your notes down precisely, write your speech as a series of questions to yourself and then answer the questions naturally while you're talking with whatever comes to mind.

You’ll find that once you start something your end result will be great no matter where you started.

Exercise: think of a project that needs to be done. After you finish reading these notes, go and do the first thing that comes to mind about completing the project. Repeat until you are done!

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Bonding Your Way to Success

Building Bonds is part of your Social Skills - a component of your Social Competence.

While Social Skills, in general, is related to your adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others - Building Bonds relates to your ability to nurture instrumental relationships.

People who have this competence usually:

• Cultivate and maintain extensive informal networks
• Seek out relationships that are mutually beneficial
• Build rapport and keep others in the loop
• Make and maintain personal friendships among work associates
• Always keep in touch with everybody they know

Relationships are the main key to doing business - business deals are more likely to be closed due to contacts, friendships, and referrals.

Outstanding performers build and maintain networks which are crucial for success. Networks are linked by face to face contact, phone or email contact - what matters is to keep a psychological proximity - it's about keeping in contact and in touch with people you get along with, people you trust, share common ideals and feel comfortable with.

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