The
Ideal Collaborative Team
A
New Survey Suggests that
Attitude is More Important than Experience in Collaborative Work
A
recent survey
conducted jointly by Mitch Ditkoff and Tim Moore of Idea
Champions, Carolyn Allen of Innovation
Solution Center and Dave
Pollard of Meeting of Minds reveals
that most people would rather
have inexperienced people with a positive attitude than highly
experienced
people who lack enthusiasm, candor or commitment, on a collaborative
work team.
Two criteria, enthusiasm for the subject of the collaboration, and
open-mindedness and curiosity, are rated as the most important criteria
by virtually all segments of respondents. More than half of all
respondents rated these qualities as indispensable in a collaboration
partner. By contrast, five experience-related criteria (proven
trustworthiness, collaboration experience, previous familiarity with
other members of the team, reputation in the field of the
collaboration, and business experience), rate at or near the bottom of
the 39 criteria assessed by participants.
Candor, courage and timeliness of follow-through are also rated very
important qualities in a collaborator, along with strong listening,
feedback and self-management skills and diversity of ideas.
These findings, most of which are based on responses from experienced
collaborators, seem to suggest that just about any group of
appropriately motivated people can be effective collaborators, and that
good collaboration is more art, and perhaps chemistry, than science.
Read the rest.
Also with this report:
A Conversation On The Collaboration Process
In
order to make the results of this survey even more valuable to readers,
we thought it would be useful to provide some insight not only into who
are the best collaborators, but how one can better conduct
collaborative activities. Rather than conducting another survey, we
decided to tap our collective (and collaborative) experience as
collaborators, and we concluded that the best way to relate this was
through a conversation. The conversation follows the full report.
Update!: Carolyn has put a .pdf copy of the report on her blog here.
And those who'd like to watch the original wiki version of the
Conversation continue (or even participate in the Conversation), can
find it here.
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