How to create more productive, collaborative relationships – even with those you can’t stand! (Episode 230)

<p>SHOW NOTES</p> <p><b>Title: “How to create more productive, collaborative relationships at work and at home” </b></p> <p><b>Episode 230</b></p> <p><b>Guest: Dr. Deb Mashek, author “Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work, even if you’d rather work alone”</b></p> <p>THIS WEEK’S TOPIC:</p> <p>Collaboration is a good thing, right? So why is it so difficult to collaborate, especially with those who have a different point of view, or just rub us the wrong way? If we’re honest, it can be very hard to navigate those differences, and to do so in a way that yields the most constructive and potentially innovative results, while at the same time maintaining some semblance of a personal relationship. This challenge lies at the heart of what it often means to build and sustain influence in our lives and careers. So what can you do when you’re forced to collaborate with someone you simply cannot stand? What then? That’s the topic of this week’s conversation. </p> <p>ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST: </p> <p>Dr. Deb Mashek joins me to discuss her work and her newly released book “<b>“Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work, even if you’d rather work alone.” </b>Named one of the top 35 women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Deb’s is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education administrator and national nonprofit executive, having served as the first Executive Director of the Heterodox Academy. </p> <p>She is also the founder of Myco Consulting, LLC where she “helps businesses navigate the relationship headwinds that tank timelines, bottom lines, and well-being.” Deb applies “relationship theory to understand and improve how individuals relate to others and to help people achieve together that which cannot be achieved alone.” </p> <p>KEY TOPICS AND WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: </p> <p>Why we need collaboration and the value it brings to projects and teams. </p> <p>Why we aren’t better at collaborating, why the proble