Chapter 23. Encouraging Collaboration on Your Team

The benefits of collaboration make it easy to understand why managers who foster such teamwork are considered leaders. You can encourage and support collaboration in the following ways:

Identify areas of interdependence that make collaboration appropriate. Involve team members in planning and problem solving to help them identify where collaboration is needed.

Keep lines of communication open among everyone involved in a problem, project, or course of action.

Let the team know in advance that teamwork will positively influence individual recognition.