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When too many people in a company lack collaborative skills we call it a Red Zone organization, which is a very low trust, high blame, unsupportive workplace. People in the Red Zone are more guarded, cynical, and suspicious. They are less open, so it is more difficult to solve problems. They avoid risk...

Develop Five Skills Organizations live or die on relationships. Your ability to create successful collaborative relationships can make or break your career. Effective executives have one skill in common — collaborative influence — the ability to get things done by getting people to collaborate and...

A co-worker responds with anger whenever someone disagrees with him. A husband retreats into silence whenever he gets into an argument with his wife. An employee buries her boss in piles of irrelevant information whenever she is asked a question. [bsk-pdf-manager-pdf id="7"]

The Radical Collaboration approach has been utilized in a wide range of applications in both public and private sectors, ranging from healthcare (Catholic Healthcare West -Sierra Nevada Hospital) heavy industry (Boeing Leadership Center) military (US and Canadian Departments of Defense) higher education...

This work has its roots at the State of California, Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) where Jim Tamm was a senior Administrative Law Judge and former Regional Director for 25 years prior to becoming Managing Director of BCon WSA International. PERB is the state agency established to oversee dispute...