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Tips For Overcoming Collaboration Obstacles

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Purpose: To identify 10 obstacles to effective collaboration and ways to overcome them most effectively.

  1. 1. Obstacle: Unrealistic expectations about collaboration as a process

Tips:

  • Identify individual expectations:
  • ° Conduct a precollaboration survey.
  • ° Conduct precollaboration interviews.
  • ° Host a precollaboration meeting to explore expectations for accountability and responsibility from self and others.
  • Agree on group expectations about how to collaborate best with each other:
  • ° Facilitate group agreement about what to expect realistically from the collaboration process.
  • ° Discuss which expectations are achievable, and which ones are not.
  • ° Agree on how to manage the ...

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