11 February 2022
Effective Collaboration Requires More Than Just Communication
From its inception, project management has always emphasized communication as an effective enabler to optimize project outcomes, and our own research has continued to confirm it to be an essential team skill. To ensure the product or solution being developed will meet the customer’s needs, it is critical that project leaders create space for stakeholders to provide input and shape strategies.
But establishing communication channels is only the first step in effective collaboration. The harder part is gathering, synthesizing and actually acting upon multiple perspectives and insights — and that’s where many companies fall short.
