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Collaboration

Organizations want 'team players' and can identify those who are not yet may have trouble identifying those skills making up a collaborative individual to better coach them into a team role. The categories within this team can help people identify those strengths or work to improve an aspect such as:

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Analysis
Analytic Skills
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Decision Making

Interpersonal Relationships
Mediation
Organization skills
Teamwork
Team building

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The Improvisation Edge by Karen Hough
Location: eBook
Publication Date: 2011
To help leaders, managers, and front-line workers build greater trust within the organization, trainer, speaker, and performance expert Karen Hough guides readers through practice of radical collaboration based on the tenets of improvisation.
Collaboration Begins with You by Ken Blanchard; Jane Ripley; Eunice Parisi-Carew
Location: eBook
Publication Date: 2015
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.
Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration by Judith H. Katz; Frederick A. Miller
Location: eBook
Publication Date: 2013
Top diversity experts Katz and Miller offer a short, engaging guide to four simple behaviors that fundamentally change the quality and nature of people's workplace interactions, thereby opening doors to more productive interpersonal relationships, greater job satisfaction, and increased organizational success.
Collaborating for Results by David Ian Willcock
Location: eBook
Publication Date: 2013
Collaborating for Results focuses on the human reasons for unproductive silo working in organisations, combining psychology with broader organisation development theory and practice. The central theme is that a visible agenda for building and maintaining working relationships across organisations is required by those seeking competitive advantage. It describes the contours of working relationships at three levels - individual, team and organisation - and proposes practical actions en route to collaboration and high performance.
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher; William Ury; Bruce Patton
Location: BF 637 .N4 F57 2011 (Notre Dame Campus)
Since it was first published in 1981 Getting to Yes has become a central book in the Business Canon: the key text on the psychology of negotiation. Its message of "principled negotiations"--finding an acceptable compromise by determining which needs are fixed and which are flexible for negotiating parties--has influenced generations of businesspeople, lawyers, educators and anyone who has sought to achieve a win-win situation in arriving at an agreement."--Provided by publisher.

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