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COLLABORATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
Selecting the right colleagues and affiliates is a key success strategy for any career path. Whether you work for an organization or have created your own, the people with whom you partner impact your results as well as your fulfillment and reputation. Creativity also thrives in relationships with complementary skills nurtured by mutual respect. Successful partnerships and alliances depend on complete honesty, self- assessment and awareness, open communication, and a dedication to resolve conflicts on the part of all participants.
Over the course of my years as a career coach, I have cautioned many clients against taking ill-suited jobs or joining forces with partners where there may be a mismatch. I have seen a pattern with many female entrepreneurs where two insecure women team up together with the same weaknesses and a shaky business plan. Disaster usually strikes and may even end in the courtroom. If you are considering doing contract work or becoming an employee of an organization, do your research. If the company jerks you around in the hiring process or your intuition tells you that it's all too "perfect", beware. You want to be connected to the best people, products, and services. Desperation and the impulse "to just get it done" reap dangerous liaisons. As a business owner, there are huge differences between collaborations and official partnerships. You can fulfill your needs for collaboration with a variety of networks, team projects, success teams, and other modalities. You don't have to make an alliance official unless you have road-tested it and it makes sense legally and professionally.
So if you have the "urge to merge", ask yourself these key questions:
1) Are you an introvert or an extrovert? How much alone time versus group time suits you?
2) What is your relationship pattern? Do have a string of collisions in your past or a steady track record of positive connections?
3) Of the collisions you have had, what part did you play in the process? Pay attention to your vulnerable points.
4) What can a potential partner or employer do for YOU? What are you hoping to gain with an alliance? Is it something you could or ought to be doing yourself? For example, as we talked about last
month, we all need to learn how to self-market, but different models support our intentions.
5) Are you confident that you can negotiate well on your own behalf? If not, what data/skills/knowledge do you need so you can?
6) Before you seek alliances, write a mock ad about what you are seeking in another person or organization and include all the necessary details such as integrity, work hours, skills, personal style, etc. that are essential for a positive outcome.
7) SHOP AROUND. Be picky and value yourself enough to take your time. Know what you want and write down every hesitation you uncover. As with any relationship, readiness is key. Both parties have to be on the same wavelength at the same time.
8) Set up an experiment with one project before you decide about a long term affiliation. Trust is earned! Face up to the truth–whatever happens. You can find the right people and the best model for you, but be sure and subtract the colleagues and organizations that fail YOUR test!
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1. What kind of collaborations sound like FUN to you?
2. In what circumstances do you love to be in control and when do you long for company and input?
3. Do a 360 feedback exercise on yourself and ask your friends and lovers, co-workers, peers, associates, etc. how you excel as a person and a professional and where you let yourself and others down.
4. Then visualize attracting the right circle of influence for YOU!
(c)2003 Gail McMeekin
NOTE: You're welcome to "reprint" this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the resource box at the end), and you send me a copy or link to your reprint at mailto:wendy@wendyweiss.com
About the Author
Gail McMeekin, LICSW is a national Career/creativity coach and writer on personal, professional, and creative development. Author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor and The Power of Positive Choices, both with Conari Press. Subscribe to her FREE monthly email newsletter Creative Success by clicking on her website: http://www.creativesuccess.com.
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Creativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of ... Wallas considered creativity to be a legacy of the evolutionary process, ... |
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Creativity For Life |
An exploration of creativity in everyday life, with articles, quotes, reviews and other creative resources to awaken creativity in daily life. |
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AdCritic.com: Commercial Ads |
FROM CREATIVITY: Emerging Directors, Unite In the time it took to write this, three new directors popped up. Here are twenty to get acquainted with. ... |
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National Curriculum in Action - Creativity - |
Ordering Creativity packs: print and video materials. This website gives practical ideas on how to promote pupils' creative thinking and behaviour. ... |
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Ten Steps for Boosting Your Creativity |
Experiments performed by the JPB Creative Laboratory show that watching TV causes your ... a weekly report on creativity, ideas, innovation and invention ... |
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Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted |
This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation Techniques, ... I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the ... |
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Creativity at Work: The interplay of business, art and science |
A resource for training and development in creativity and innovation in organizations. Has a newsletter, and some articles and essays by 'Corporate ... |
www.creativityatwork.com |
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Crayola Creativity Central |
Crayola Creativity Central offers kids arts and crafts ideas for rainy day fun. We also have coloring books and pages, art and craft projects, games, ... |
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Pages tagged with "creativity" on del.icio.us |
All items tagged creativity ??? view popular ... Perspective for Creative Leaders · save this. by aromay to creativity business management ... 1 hour ago ... |
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Creativity Web - Resources for Creativity and Innovation |
Creativity Web Home Page Resources for Creativity and Innovation ... The Creative Process · Multiple Intelligences · Idea Recording · Your Creative Space ... |
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gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": how to ... |
So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. ... Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion ... |
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Creativity Quotes | Creativity Quotations | Creativity Sayings ... |
Quotes on Creativity - part of a larger collection of Wisdom Quotes to challenge and inspire. Find Creativity quotations and links to quotes on other ... |
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Ideas by Creativity Pool |
A free database with new ideas and possible inventions. Add your own, or bring an existing idea to life. |
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CREATIVITY |
Creative problem solving depends on using the right tools, tricks, ... Search for the latest books on Creativity (or anything else) in the Quantum Books ... |
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Creativity Tools, Creative Solutions & Creative Problem Solving ... |
This page explains a wide range of techniques which can help you generate creative solutions to your problems. |
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The 6 Myths Of Creativity |
A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company. |
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CreativeClass.org |
Richard Florida's "The Rise of the Creative Class" examines creativity and its effects on economic development. |
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TIP: Concepts |
The relationship between creativity and intelligence has been always been a central concern of psychology ( Guilford , 1950). Much effort has been devoted ... |
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American Creativity Association (ACA) |
An incorporated non-profit organization promoting personal and professional creativity. Association membership is represented by four multidisciplinary ... |
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CREAX - Portal for creativity and innovation |
A resource for links on creativity and innovation on the web. A selection of 690 links is divided into 67 categories for the visitors convenience. |
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