Managing relationships is a critical factor in successful collaboration and teamwork. Another great advantage of collaboration
is that participants come to understand human resistance issues
and learn to deal with them at all levels. Collaboration effectively
causes people to agree on common goals and to focus their energies on those goals, fulfilling one of the key rules of tough management: focus on results. Successfully working in a team
environment requires give-and-take, but it also allows individuals
the opportunity to learn and grow.
Every member of a team has something to contribute, and every
other member has something to learn. Organizations that encourage collaboration with highly interactive participation by all team
members can provide that organization with a great advantage of
144 tough managementfocusing all energies in an agreed-to direction. The problem is that
many organizations talk about collaboration and say they believe in
it, but don’t take the right steps to make true teamwork work for
the good of the organization.