Synopses & Reviews
Everyone knows that collaboration creates high-performing teams and organizations. Yet it often doesn't happen, because people and groups typically believe that they are doing what's needed—the problem is always outside: the other team member, the other department. So people stay in their silos and the creative energy collaboration generates is lost. This book shows that collaboration begins with you. It is an inside-out process that starts with your heart (who you are) and head (what you know and believe), then moves to your hands (what you do). The authors help people develop a collaborative culture by utilizing differences, nurturing safety and trust, instituting clear purposes and goals, talking openly, and empowering themselves and others. When people recognize and change erroneous beliefs and actions regarding collaboration, failures can be turned into successes and breakthrough results achieved at every level.
Synopsis
Collaboration Begins with You
Everyone knows collaboration creates high performing teams and organizations--and with today's diverse, globalized workforce it's absolutely crucial. Yet it often doesn't happen because people and groups typically believe that the problem is always outside: the other team member, the other department, the other company. Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors use Blanchard's signature business parable style to show that, in fact, if collaboration is to succeed it must begin with
you.
This book teaches people at all levels--from new associates to top executives--that it's up to each of us to help promote and preserve a winning culture of collaboration. The authors show that busting silos and bringing people together is an inside-out process that involves the heart (your character and intentions), the head (your beliefs and attitudes), and the hands (your actions and behaviors). Working with this three-part approach, Collaboration Begins with You helps readers develop a collaborative culture that uses differences to spur contribution and creativity; provides a safe and trusting environment; involves everyone in creating a clear sense of purpose, values, and goals; encourages people to share information; and turns everyone into an empowered self-leader.
None of us is as smart as all of us. When people recognize their own erroneous beliefs regarding collaboration and work to change them, silos are broken down, failures are turned into successes, and breakthrough results are achieved at every level.
About the Author
Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author of more than 60 books, beginning with The One Minute Manager® in 1982, which have combined sales of more than 21 million copies, making him one of the bestselling business authors of all time.Jane Ripley has twenty-three years experience in the learning and development field and has served as a board director in three companies. She was also part of an award-winning team that designed and delivered a series of blended learning programs on inclusion and diversity.Eunice Parisi-Carew is one of the founders of The Ken Blanchard Companies and a respected management consultant, trainer, and author. She is the coauthor of Blanchard's Situational Team Leadership product line and two bestselling books on teams, The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams and High Five!
Table of Contents
Part I: A Journey To Collaboration1 “Heads Are Going to Roll”
2 An Alliance Is Formed
3 The Need to UNITE
4 Utilize Differences
5 Nurture Safety and Trust
6 Institute a Clear Purpose, Values, and Goals
7 An Alliance Is Foiled
8 Talk Openly
9 From Breakdown to Breakthrough
10 Encourage Contribution
11 Major Surgery
12 Collaboration in Action
13 Turnaround
Epilogue
Part II: Tools and Resources to Create Collaboration
Self Assessment: How Collaborative Do You Think You Are?
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