Who are the best collaborators to have on your team to participate in creative thinking?
You can know the best collaborators based on their actions. They:
- Are individuals you can trust and depend upon to do what they say
- Are fun, pleasant, and enjoyable to be around
- Do their homework upfront
- Are eager to work with others
- Think big while realizing details matter
- Readily generate new ideas
- Inspire new ideas in others
- Take-over or sit back, whichever one is needed (and they know when which one or the other is needed)
- Cheer others on when the collaboration is faltering
- Will readily challenge people when it will lead to a stronger outcome
- View some things similarly and some differently than you
- Are good at structuring and shaping your work
- Are willing to volunteer and actually do work that needs to get done
- Create more energy than they consume within the collaboration
What other characteristics would you add based on the best collaborators for creative thinking you have worked with in your career? – Mike Brown
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