‘If you’re looking to initiate a collaborative relationship, it would be a mistake to merely hope that good opportunities will kick up or to assume that you’ll be seen as someone with whom others will want to collaborate’
Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate, is featured in a ReWorked article on Collaboration and Productivity.
How to Become a Trusted Collaborator
All relationships begin somewhere. At some point in time. Somehow. We transition from being strangers to friends. From being neighbors to running buddies. From being single to coupled. Relationship transitions are all around us, including in our professional lives. One relationship transition that’s particularly important in the workplace is the move from being a mere acquaintance to a trusted collaborator.