Collaboration Instead of Coordination
Are you ever asked to coordinate a project with a committee or another team? As you work together you may find valuable time spend sitting in nauseating meetings where people drone on about the small details, instead of getting after the big issues. Colonel Candid is here to focus you on collaboration over coordination. Because words matter, we need to understand the difference between coordination and collaboration. An example, when you get an email, read it, and pass it along – you’ve coordinated something. Now when you get a phone call or video conference and you work on this project with someone, you start to collaborate. To reach the immersion level of collaboration, you’ve got to have skin in the game. It’s the point when you don’t just nod your head in concurrence when others are talking, you’re collaborating when you speak out and pounding on the table in agreement. Setting the conditions for great collaboration on a project begins with the players involved. When you cre...