Culture of Collaboration
Can the Ability to Conflict Create More Innovation and Profit?
Patricia Heyman
In my last article, Can Trust With Greater Communication Drive Greater Results?, I expanded upon the Introductory meeting outline in our Four Meeting model, which provides a platform for more creative thinking and innovation for business excellence and expansion. I talked about connection and communication being a vital part of the neuroscience of development, and […]
How Can You Win by Sharing Challenges and Problems?
Patricia Heyman
In today’s business environment it is often instinctive to hold your cards close to your sleeve, keeping problems and challenges to yourself, for fear of being perceived as lacking. But in reality, we all have challenges and problems in business, and “no man is an island.” We must learn to engage and collaborate with each […]
Can You Make the Jump from Communication to Partnership?
Patricia Heyman
As I have mentioned in previous articles, the basic skill for dynamic leadership is Communication, coupled with the ability to connect and to create partnerships with direct reports, peers and top leaders within your organization. Without this basic skill the best strategic plan falls short, and frustration can create greater distance. I’ve been writing and […]
What Behaviors Make a Leader?
Patricia Heyman
In order to lead effectively, communication and connection are essential leadership behaviors that must be developed from the onset. Collaborative leadership skills are demanding more focus, as global business becomes more prevalent. One of the first behaviors that managers, and those in senior leadership positions, must develop is the ability to network and to share […]
How can Connection and Partnerships Increase Your Leadership Influence?
Patricia Heyman
To effectively lead and be strategic from any role in your organization, you have to develop network relationships and partnerships. I was talking with a Vice President this week who is the leader of a global team in a large organization that has many teams involved with different functions of the business. In addition, her […]
How Do You Motivate and Sustain Behavior Change?
Patricia Heyman
I have a physician friend who in the past has worked in a small group practice, and is now part of a very large practice with management of a CEO and Vice Presidents. As we caught up over lunch, he expressed concern over the challenges of not only creating behavior change within an organization, but […]
Can You Change a Reactive Culture?
Patricia Heyman
As I continue to write and to talk with leaders, I am struck by the continued bafflement about how to move from being reactive to proactive which is what has inspired today’s post. I have heard many executives define the culture of their organization as reactive vs. pro-active. They have expressed a desire for more […]
Have You Got a Partner?
Patricia Heyman
Our last blog post, Is Collaboration Worth the Time and Effort? elicited some great comments. My initial intention was to discuss partnership and collaboration as a means for creating greater success, both in implementation of current strategic plans and in innovation for expansion. In the comments that I received people spoke of joint writing projects […]
Is Collaboration Really Worth the Time and Effort?
Patricia Heyman
Recently, an executive in a global business said over dinner, “I hate collaboration”! If you have said that and have felt held back by the need to work with another when it seems that things would move more quickly if alone, then this is for you.