Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive

Collaboration is key for organizations in the 21st century, yet few business people have been trained to teach this skill. How do you advance ideas in a collaborative way and then communicate them throughout your company? In this practical book, author Gretchen Anderson shows you how to generate ideas with others while gaining buy-in from all levels of your organization.

Product managers, designers, marketers, technical leaders, and executives will obtain better insight into how team members work together to make decisions. Through tangible exercises and techniques, you’ll learn how to turn promising ideas into products, services, and solutions that make a real difference in the market.

• Use a framework to develop ideas into hypotheses to be tested and refined
• Avoid common pitfalls in the collaboration process
• Align communication approaches to ensure that collaboration is effective and inclusive
• Structure events or meetings for different types of collaboration depending on the people involved
• Practice giving and receiving critiques to foster inclusion without resorting to consensus-based decisions

• The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance
• Collaboration: What Makes It Work
• Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
• Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently
• Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation
• Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
• Rituals for Work: 50 Ways to Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, and a Culture that Can Adapt to Change
• Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos
• Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value