{"id":852,"date":"2013-09-13T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:13:05","slug":"collaboration-whats-in-it-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration: What&#8217;s In It For Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collaboration leads to better decision-making, and by working together, people can achieve extraordinary things.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>On a personal level, collaboration:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Stimulates critical thinking<\/li>\n<li>Enhances self esteem<\/li>\n<li>Builds confidence<\/li>\n<li>Motivates individuals to take risks<\/li>\n<li>Builds self-control<\/li>\n<li>Allows for evaluation of personal values and goals<\/li>\n<li>Builds empathy<\/li>\n<li>Teaches to listen with respect<\/li>\n<li>Develops conflict resolution skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>As a group, collaboration:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increases productivity<\/li>\n<li>Speeds up decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Encourages creativity<\/li>\n<li>Simplifies workflows<\/li>\n<li>Pools skills and resources<\/li>\n<li>Fosters diversity<\/li>\n<li>Increases profitability<\/li>\n<li>Brings balance to decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Encourages win\/win situations<\/li>\n<li>And most importantly, builds trust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the next time someone asks you to collaborate, perhaps you won\u2019t need to ask \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you normally respond when someone asks you to collaborate?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=852&title=Collaboration: What&#8217;s In It For Me?\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Collaboration: What&#8217;s In It For Me? &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=852\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=852&title=Collaboration: What&#8217;s In It For Me?\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaboration leads to better decision-making, and by working together, people can achieve extraordinary things. On a personal level, collaboration: Improves communication skills Stimulates critical thinking Enhances self esteem Builds confidence Motivates individuals to take risks Builds self-control Allows for evaluation of personal values and goals Builds empathy Teaches to listen with respect Develops conflict resolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[74,18,118,119,120,3,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}