FOR WHAT IT'S WORK PODCAST
Feb 21, 2023
S1E1 - What They Don’t Tell You About Collaboration...
Collaboration is a challenge…unless you’re Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart, apparently. People tell us that collaboration is the secret ingredient to innovation - but we can’t help to wonder, how do we actually do the thing? In this episode, Franzi and Lillie drop the best collaborative practices (like it’s hot) to figure out: How can we learn to work together as the best version of ourselves?
27 min
DESCRIPTION
We often hear that collaboration is fundamental to high-functioning teams. But the funny thing is, no one really taught us how to collaborate. Did you take a collaboration course or workshop? Probably not. So if collaboration is a learned experience, how do we know we’re collaborating to our fullest potential? In this episode, we are diving deep into this concept to answer the question: How can we best enter collaborative spaces so we can create something new (and epic) together?
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