Collaboration: The Work We Share

So one of my favorite activities and things that I enjoy doing is collaboration.

And I think that many of my successes in my business have come from collaborative events.

And so today, I would love to chat with Joanne and Jean and find out what we either have in common in regards to collaboration or how we see this differently.

Because variably, Jean usually has a different take on things.

Shock and awe.

So I would love to start off with what is collaboration to you? And so I think I'm going to turn it to Joanne first, just because I can.

OK.

Thank you.

I'm one of these people who've always asked about 10 different people's opinions before I make a decision.

So collaboration comes pretty naturally to me as an extension of that kind of thinking.

I don't like doing things all by myself.

Maybe it's a little bit of insecurity that I've carried with me over the years.

I don't know.

But I also take, I don't know, I have I put great value in different perspectives and I want to absorb them all and then decide what path I want to take.

But I also like working with people on a regular basis.

As long as it's a group where there's enough of a commonality in thinking and in doing whatever the projects are that we can make consensual decisions fairly quickly.

And that's a little bit rare in my experience, but I do find this to be true in the book indexing group that I am with.

There are only five.

I think it would be very hard to do this with a larger group.

But we are, I think because we're all doing the same kind of the same very specialized task that we can come together twice a year, plus WhatsApp notes and things like that, and stay on track with our business, with our projects, with delegating to each other, and with making decisions about how the business is going to go into the future, how do we deal with challenges.

seem to be able to get to a consensus fairly easily.

And that to me, as I said, is a rare thing to find.

And I think it's a combination of all those factors, the kind of specialized work that we do and just the way we think.

Well, I think that kind of sums up, at least for me, for what a definition of collaboration is, because it's something where we seem to accomplish more together than we would do alone.

And that it's built on a shared purpose, which is what you just said.