The Art of Collaboration

Approaching a meeting with intentions that certain good things will happen allows you to focus your thinking in a positive way and helps pave a conscious and subconscious path for you to walk.

3. Allow others to have their points of view.
Most people have a sense of competition. This competitiveness is triggered very naturally since it has been instilled in us as part of our socialization. From a young age we are taught to win, and that lesson often reverberates throughout life — even during a meeting, when we come across someone who doesn’t see things our way. It’s almost instinctual to want to win the “argument” by convincing our adversaries to accept our point of view. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to win, but that spirit doesn’t always have a place when trying to establish a collaborative relationship.