Radical Collaboration

Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships

by James Tamm and Ronald Luyet (12700)

In today’s networked world, being able to add value by collaborating effectively with others has gone beyond being nice to have to become a new business imperative. The collaborative capital of a company is now of equal importance to its intellectual and financial capital.

Significantly, collaboration cannot genuinely be mandated from the top. Instead, it must begin within the mind-set of the individual and then work its way out into the organization as a whole. The five essential skills of collaboration are the personal skills around which sound productive collaborative relationships are built.

So what it is about this methodology that is radical? Radical collaboration works from the inside out rather than being imposed from on high. It requires that an individual have the right mind-set to begin with, then moves outwards into individual relationships and from that base this collaborative intent then moves into team and organizational settings. Unless you master and integrate the five skills of radical collaboration at a personal level first, you’ll be unable to use them in a group setting with any degree of success.

Radical Collaboration