Collaborating for Success: Learn How to Build High Performance Collaborative Teams

As another example, being courteous and polite might not be seen as having any immediate return, but it creates relationships and an atmosphere that enable effective, efficient and harmonious working and the attainment of both individual and mutual personal and corporate benefits.

A contributing factor in putting people issues at the end of many agendas is probably discomfort in articulating and dealing with emotional, relationship and behavioural issues.

ffective collaboration depends upon:
• installing the appropriate technology
• creating the right physical environment
• developing new organisational structures, processes and procedures
• developing appropriate behaviours
• creating an appropriate culture.

Collaboration has a specifically defined purpose which has been agreed upon by the parties interacting, and is intended to satisfy this objective.