Collaborating in the Workplace: A Guide for Building Better Teams

Collaborating in the Workplace arms readers with tips to help teams collaborate and create more powerful outcomes. Focusing on the key skills necessary for effective collaboration, along with practical exercises to help improve these skills, the goal of this informative volume is to encourage the creation of connections that lead to powerful communication and better results. The authors cover such topics as: how stress impacts daily interactions; ways of listening that create a deeper understanding and connection with others; preparing for, practicing, and learning from difficult conversations; tricky workplace communication issues that tend to trip people up, such as interrupting, giving feedback, and being clear about requests. With step-by-step exercises and guidelines for practice, readers can learn the skills necessary to make any team work better together.

IKE LASATER, JD, MCP, Author, Mediator, Trainer, and Speaker, helps organizations and individuals develop the capacity to more effectively clarify their objectives, and then to achieve them. He also acts as a private mediator, facilitating conversations and connection among people in conflict. He has facilitated workshops in more than twenty countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia.