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Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?
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Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

by Deb Mashek
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
6 pages
11m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

New research finds that despite the importance of collaboration, most organizations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills.

Americans spend more time on work than on all other waking activities combined. Many of these working hours are spent collaborating with colleagues. We think together in meetings. We act together on project teams. We manage up and manage down. Across sectors and levels, collaboration is the name of the game.

In spring 2022, Dev Crasta and I fielded the Workplace Collaboration Survey to better understand collaborative relationships in the modern workplace. The 1,100 people who participated in the survey ...

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