COLLABORATION AS A BUSINESS MODEL

PART TWO

“Collaboration implies an active contribution by each party. You can cooperate with others without collaborating with them. In order to truly collaborate, you must invest yourself and actively seek to meet your own needs and those of others simultaneously. Collaboration requires a combination of healthy assertion and healthy cooperation.” (The Collaborative Leader, p.48)

There were two key things that brought a different thinking to my understanding of collaboration— what happened during the training and what happened after the training.