“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” –Andrew Carnegie

When ideas flow freely at your organization, you’ll reach even stronger solutions. This is the importance of collaboration between team members. Since everyone’s skills and experience are slightly different, each member of the organization brings a different set of thoughts and ideas to your business.

However this can bring arguments in your organization, but agreeing on clear rules of conduct allows you to blend individual team members into one cohesive unit. The purpose of this is to agree on the one consistent way, which may run a particular team.

Below is sample framework on Collaboration from an interesting article, which talks about “Help Your Team Agree on How They’ll Collaborate”.

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