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Deb Mashek on The Business of Being Brilliant podcast

‘I mentioned I’m from Nebraska, so I like a good farm metaphor. If my wagon is hitched to your ill mannered horses, whether I like it or not, that’s a miserable existence! I’m going to be stressed out, I’m going to be carrying that stress home. And it’s when you have that low relationship quality combined with this really high interdependence that you get collaborHATE.’

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate, is a guest The Business of Being Brilliant podcast with Helen Beedham.

TBoBB S4 E1 Deb Mashek

I talk with Dr. Debra Mashek, social psychologist, expert on the science of close relationships and author of Collabor(h)ate: how to build incredibly collaborative relationships at work even if you’d rather work alone. Collaboration might sound a familiar concept but in practice it can be at best a mystery and at worst a minefield that trips us and our businesses up with costly and lasting consequences.

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Deb Mashek on the Let’s Find Common Ground Podcast

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate is a guest on the Let’s Find Common Ground Podcast.

Common Ground at Work: from Disaster to Success

Can we learn to love (or at least not hate) teamwork? Tune in for expert tips on finding common ground. Collaboration is seen as a given in working life. Being part of a team means cooperating with others on all kinds of projects. But the reality is few of us learn how to collaborate.

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Deb Mashek in Reworked

‘Culturally, there’s an assumption that you’re either good or bad at relationships — that you sink or swim, and that these things are not learnable.’

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate is featured in the Reworked article ‘Why Aren’t Companies Teaching Us How to Collaborate?’

Collaboration, the Critical Skill We’re Rarely Taught

Everyone has had a nightmare group project. Despite the fact that humans have always had to work together to accomplish anything, it still doesn’t come easy to some people. From early childhood on, we’re expected to collaborate, and that certainly doesn’t end in the workforce.

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Deb Mashek, PhD in MIT Sloan Management Review

‘What is surprising… is how little professional development people reported receiving on how to build healthy and productive collaborative relationships at work.’ 

Deb Mashek, PhD, author of Collabor(h)ate (forthcoming) is featured in MIT Sloan Management Review speaking about collaboration and how most organisations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills.

Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

New research finds that despite the importance of collaboration, most organizations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills. Americans spend more time on work than on all other waking activities combined . Many of these working hours are spent collaborating with colleagues. We think together in meetings.