Does work feel like a tug-of-war lately, with one team, one department, and/or one staff pulling against the other?
Are you fed up and exhausted with the lack of collaboration?
Your perspective on your team’s collaboration (or lack thereof) speaks volumes.
I diagnose teams all over the world, including their collaboration levels. I then use that data to create bespoke team buildings and trainings.
Here’s a look behind the curtain at what the collated data has to say about team collaboration.
But first, before you peek, where would you put your team in terms of collaboration? How would you finish this sentence? Our team collaborates…..
- not at all
- a little
- average
- suite a bit
- very much
Okay, now you can peek.
Here are the collated results of many global teams of change makers.
What do you think? How do the results stack up against your team?
If you need some support around collaboration, consider these “Collaboration Recipes” that past participants have created.
They’re genuine ‘recipes’ that teams have created to help themselves collaborate better.
While you go through them, be sure to think of which ingredients you have in abundance and make you and your team shine.
And think of the ingredients that may be missing for you and your team and how to get them.
Collaboration Recipe One
¼ cup of hard work
1 cup of skill
2 cups of communication
Mix well with regular meetings and updates.
And a sprinkle of determination, patience, and active listening
Prepare in a respectful manner.
Serve chilled with trust and infuse with hot and spicy coordination.
Collaboration Recipe Two
1 bottle of team work
2 glasses of respect
1 teaspoon of understanding
2 ounces of innovation
A pinch of humbleness
A dash of on-going training
Collaboration Recipe Three
2 cups of teamwork
1 cup of professionalism
1 cup of understanding
2 cups of passion for the job
1 cup of communication
¾ cups of commitment
A dash of empathy
A sprinkle of tolerance
Collaboration Recipe Four
8 cups of skills
8 cups of empathy
15 cups of technical knowledge and capacity
10 cups of cleanliness*
Add 5 cups of understanding, and mix well.
Sprinkle with lots of smiles, communication, and feedback. Enough to satisfy the mandate wholly!
* A note on cleanliness: this was a technical team in the medical field. Feel free to adjust for your own field.
Collaboration Recipe Five
3 cups – communication
½ teaspoon team ownership
1 spoon enthusiasm
2 cup skills
Touch base 2x everyday
What did you think?
Any ingredients missing for example? Any ratios of ingredients that you’d change for your team?
Collaboration is a key skill in order to be part of a team that works well together and builds on each other’s assets and gaps.
Take these recipes to your next staff meeting and use them as inspiration to create your own.
Now go get cooking!
Now go on and learn, laugh, and lead
Learn
- Check out my Fist/Palm technique for team collaboration, one of the tools I use in my workshops on collaboration.
Laugh
- Collaboration takes all forms.
Lead
- Your perspective on collaboration is everything. In order to find out more about your particular perspective, and how you see the world, take my free Life Lenses® assessment. It helps you see what comes onto your radar easily, naturally, and comfortably and what you’re missing. And if you’d like to arrange a Life Lenses® workshop for your team, reach out. Let’s chat.
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