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Collaboration skills are talents, skills and knowledge that allow an individual to be productive and creative in groups. This relates to influencing, teamwork and the ability to involve a large number of stakeholders in your work. Collaboration skills are highly valued by employers as it is common for employees to be disconnected, disengaged, overly political and overly independent such that the organization fails to act together. The following are common examples of collaboration skills.
Assertiveness | Building Rapport | Building Relationships | Challenging Assumptions | Communication | Conflict Resolution | Constructive Criticism | Cultural Capital | Debate | Delivering to Commitments | Emotional Intelligence | Facilitation | Flexibility | Handling Criticism | Handling Objections | Influencing | Languages | Leadership | Listening | Managing Expectations | Negotiation | Openness | Personal Resilience | Persuasion | Presentations | Professional Networking | Professionalism | Public Speaking | Responsibility & Accountability | Setting Expectations | Social Perceptiveness | Sustaining Relationships | Taking Action Items | Taking Initiative | Tolerance for Disagreement | Verbal Communication | Win-win Thinking | Wit | Written Communication |
Resume SkillsCollaboration is the basic type of productivity within an organization such that is it natural for employers to look for collaboration skills from job candidates. The recent trend in this area is to look for experience with cross-functional teams and broad initiatives that run across an entire organization.Clearing Issues | Commitment | Consensus Building | Constructive Feedback | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Driving Company-wide Initiatives | Interdisciplinary Collaboration | Meeting Management | Multidisciplinary Collaboration | Organizational Visibility | Personal Presence | Program Management | Project Management | Relationship Management | Stakeholder Management | Team Leadership |
Barriers to CollaborationIf you list collaboration skills on your resume, a natural follow up question is to explain the barriers you faced and how you overcame these challenges. A good answer here is how you took on action items that helped the group to solve a problem or agree to a common direction.Stakeholder salience is when people in a group take the lead in areas where they lack knowledge or authority. For example, a designer who takes the lead in a discussion about cybersecurity whereby they are beyond their competence area. If you are leading a group effort, it is important to ensure that those with authority and expertise have much input.SummaryCollaboration skills are abilities that allow an individual to work well in groups to achieve outcomes such as strategies, plans, designs, decisions and the solutions to problems. Next read: Social Abilities
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