When you have successfully executed on collaboration you very likely will have - achieved more growth through greater innovation, or found new business opportunities across customer segments, or partnered with colleagues or outside organisations to create competitive advantage.
However, evidence shows that between 60% - 70% of collaborative efforts fail and it's mostly down to the poor collaborative skills of leaders. The best collaborative leaders excel at the soft factors as well as the hard factors and needs most help with:-
Relationship Building
Committment to the Organisation
People and Groups that collaborate well together are ones that are led effectively and understand the value of their combined strength to make a difference. Leaders need the most development in competencies such as influence, inspirational leadership, and emotional self-awareness.
As markets become more volatile and uncertain, organisations need leaders who are highly adaptive and able to lead diverse groups across functional disciples, regions and cultures. Leaders therefore need to have interpersonal skills beyond their current levels and develop their competencies of influence, inspirational leadership and self awareness.
Leaders who are effective at building and maintaining relationships will be more likely to thrive in a collaborative environment. Developing mutual understanding is an important element in achieving alignment of goals and dealing with conflict.
CollaborativeEdge is our new Programme focusing upon sharpening the collaboration skills so critical to the success of innovation and business development projects. It's ideal for marketing, sales, innovation and business development teams - and any executive or team responsbible for managing high value strategic relationships.
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