Collaborative Skills Worksheet

Over the last 15 years, I’ve compiled a list of 24 attributes and behaviors that, when practiced, grow the potential for collaboration, trust and psychological safety in relationships.  As a starting point to any process, I will ask people to select the behaviors that make the biggest difference for them personally in terms of trust and collaboration with others.  Then we’ll discuss the nuances of why these are so important to each person, where the need for it comes from, and what it looks like in practice.  Interestingly, people have noticed that all of them could be boiled down into one simple practice which is just ‘listening with curiosity to understand.’  If folks did nothing else, this one intentional practice would amplify trust exponentially, even when people disagree with each other about a approach or a decision.