{"product_id":"opening-doors-to-teamwork-and-collaboration-isbn-9781609947989","title":"Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Four simple but powerful keys that will help you and your colleagues knock down barriers and create a winning team.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe One Minute Manager\u003c\/i\u003e® \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYour people might be your organization’s greatest assets, but it’s their interactions with one another that determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions—and few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book shows how, describing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together—building greater trust, understanding, and collaboration. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book is filled with wonderful common sense; alas, uncommonly practiced. Anyone who wants to improve their own communication and their team’s collaboration skills cannot come away untouched.” —Beverly Kaye, Founder and Co-CEO, Career Systems International and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHelp Them Grow or Watch Them Go \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book is a laser beam on what makes work and all other relationships work. It declares that face-to-face relationships, not technology, not clear objectives, vision and metrics, are what make organizations adaptive and sustainable.” —Peter Block, author of \u003ci\u003eFlawless Consulting\u003c\/i\u003eForeword by Willie A. Deese\u003cbr\u003e Welcome to Opening Doors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: 4 Keys That Change EVERYTHING \u003cbr\u003e 1. Opening the Door to Trust – Key #1: Lean into Discomfort   \u003cbr\u003e 2. Opening the Door to Collaboration – Key #2: Listen as an Ally\u003cbr\u003e 3. Opening the Door to Understanding – Key #3: State Your Intent and Intensity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Opening the Door to Breakthroughs – Key #4: Share Your Street Corner\u003cbr\u003e Last Words: Our Hopes and Dreams \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About the Authors“This book is filled with wonderful common sense; alas, uncommonly practiced. Anyone who wants to improve their own communication and their team's collaboration skills cannot come away untouched.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Beverly Kaye, Founder and Co-CEO, Career Systems International and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHelp Them Grow or Watch Them Go \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLove ‘Em or Lose ‘Em\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Judith and Fred share four simple but powerful keys that will help you and your colleagues knock down barriers and create a winning team. Regardless of organizational level, your team will form a lasting bond that upholds an idiom my associates and I learned long ago: No one of us is as smart as all of us.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Great Leaders Grow\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The beauty of Opening Doors is its ability to translate complex human interactions into simple but meaningful language that help leaders unlock the potential of their organization and initiate transformational culture change that will result in more engaged employees, higher productivity, increased performance and stronger, more sustainable business results.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is a laser beam on what makes work and all other relationships work. It declares that face-to-face relationships, not technology, not clear objectives, vision and metrics are what make organizations adaptive and sustainable.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, and Community\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is the best training I've received on how to achieve breakthroughs for greater performance. Devoid of jargon, it demonstrates brilliantly, how countless opportunities can arise when we choose to have more collaborative moments in life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Michelle Martin, radio personality and host of \"The Wow Club\" 938LIVE, Mediacorp Radio, Singapore\u003c\/b\u003eJudith H. Katz is Executive Vice President and Frederick A. Miller is CEO and Lead Client Strategist, of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. They are the coauthors of The Inclusion Breakthrough and Be BIG.\u003cbr\u003e Judith H. Katz is Executive Vice President and Frederick A. Miller is CEO and Lead Client Strategist, of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. They are the coauthors of The Inclusion Breakthrough and Be BIG.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 KEYS THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We know this is a BIG statement. These 4 Keys do change every interaction. We have seen it. We have lived it. And yes, we understand why you might be skeptical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We would doubt such a BIG claim. But we have observed these keys at work in organizations all over the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Keys provide a common language that everyone can use. They are simple and powerful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #1 LEAN INTO DISCOMFORT\u003cbr\u003e Opening the Door to Trust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #2 LISTEN AS AN ALLY\u003cbr\u003e Opening the Door to Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #3 STATE YOUR INTENT AND INTENSITY\u003cbr\u003e Opening the Door to Understanding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #4 SHARE YOUR STREET CORNER\u003cbr\u003e Opening the Door to Breakthroughs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #1 OPENS THE DOOR TO TRUST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e image\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Opening this door feels like I am taking a risk, but if I want greater teamwork and collaboration, I need to Lean into the Discomfort I feel in order to get to know you better. How else can we work together? How else can we solve problems and eliminate confusion and wasted effort?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I Lean into Discomfort I help make it safer to be honest and open with you. As I feel safer and you feel safer, we can open the Door to Trust. Unless I am willing to Lean into Discomfort, the door to those possibilities and potential will remain closed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #2 OPENS THE DOOR TO COLLABORATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e image\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I Listen as an Ally, it enables me to hear what you, my team members and colleagues, are saying, and all of us to build on each other’s ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Slowing down to hear you is the key that unlocks the door to collaboration, which results in faster achievement of our goals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #3 OPENS THE DOOR TO UNDERSTANDING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e image\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you State Your Intent and Intensity, it helps me, my team members, and my colleagues take the guesswork out of suggestions or directions and opens the door to greater understanding of each other. Stating my Intent and Intensity does the same for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the door to understanding is opened, I see how to contribute more quickly, confidently, and decisively. When I know how best to contribute, I know how to add value; and if you do the same, we can each add greater value. And this combined greater value results in our saving time as we achieve Right First Time interactions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KEY #4 OPENS THE DOOR TO BREAKTHROUGHS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e image\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you Share Your Street Corner and I share mine, we learn to hear differences as contributions, rather than as sources of conflict. As we share our different perspectives, we can see the fuller 360-degree view, use our combined resources, and achieve breakthroughs none of us could have envisioned or accomplished alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By using all 4 Keys, the doors to trust, collaboration, and understanding are opened, and the door to breakthroughs unlocks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using the 4 Keys Starts with Joining\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Judging or Joining? Every interaction begins with this critical decision, and it impacts everything that follows. We do it so quickly and automatically that we are usually not even aware of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I meet you, do I join you—see you as a friend, an ally, someone on the same side of the table? Or do I judge you—size you up, wonder if you are someone not to be trusted, engage cautiously with you, and deny you the benefit of the doubt?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I decide to join you, I treat you as someone worthy of respect. I listen, am open, extend trust, share information. I am willing to have honest and perhaps difficult conversations. I seek to learn from you. I give you the benefit of the doubt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I truly want to open doors to teamwork and collaboration, I need to start by seeing what I could gain from joining you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rather than believing I am better off going it alone, I begin to believe that the best way to succeed is through partnership and collaboration. And by joining you, I am investing in our partnership with the expectation that we will connect and together do great things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If we begin by truly joining, we have the ability to open many doors and unlock the potential and power each of us can bring to the team and to the larger organization. But we have heard others say …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Joining is difficult.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is hard to trust others and to earn their trust.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is hard to listen to others, especially when they\u003cbr\u003e are not saying things I want or expect to hear.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is hard to define my intentions clearly\u003cbr\u003e when others aren’t defining theirs.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “And it is very, very hard to actively seek out and\u003cbr\u003e support perspectives that are different from my own\u003cbr\u003e to make sure all Street Corners are heard from.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We used to think these things too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But when we began to observe the 4 Keys in action, we noticed that people quickly made them a way of life in their organizations—and in their personal lives as well. People actually like to practice these simple Keys; and when used, these 4 Keys change Everything. We invite you to join us as we open new doors.","brand":"Berrett-Koehler Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233452732645,"sku":"NP9781609947989","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609947989.jpg?v=1767734231","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/opening-doors-to-teamwork-and-collaboration-isbn-9781609947989","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}