Kids on Collaboration and Innovation

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

This is the kids’ corner today! I shall highlight three posts that address children’s behaviors that apply to collaboration and innovation. These behavioral attributes relate nicely to an earlier post in which we discussed that effective collaboration happens at the intersection of assertive and cooperative behaviors.

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Collaboration = Cooperative Behavior + Assertive Behavior

Updated on 22 November 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Based on the Thomas-Kilmann assessment for how people handle conflict, Sandy Styer in her post, At the Corner of Assertiveness & Cooperation: Collaboration, outlines five behaviors: the Avoider, the Accommodater, the Compromiser, the Competitor and the Collaborator. These behavior arise from the individual’s focus on the “Self” and the “Cooperative.”

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