To make your ideas and plans more collaborative, try cultivating and accommodating the possibilities by asking the following COLLABORATE questions:
- Cooperate: What can we do to establish a shared culture?
- Open: What can we do to be more inclusive?
- Listen: What can we do to better understand each other?
- Learn: What can we do to develop our skills or improve our abilities?
- Attentive: What can we do to help others around us?
- Bridge: What can we do to resolve disagreements?
- Outreach: What can we do to support other communities?
- Respect: What can we do to treat others fairly?
- Accommodate: What can we do to adapt to the circumstances?
- Trust: What can we do to demonstrate our commitment?
- Empower: What can we do to give others the freedom and power to decide?
