How can teams take the concept of collaboration beyond lip service and virtue signalling to create stronger, more successful projects? We know that collaboration is the cornerstone of alliance contracting models, but countless research shows us that when it comes to behavioural cohesion, teamwork, and empathy, the type of contract is immaterial—collaborative teams across industries and contract type perform better, see greater successes, and save more money than teams built on competition and infighting. Emily Mahoney and Sarah Laurence, the founders of Mahoney & Matthews Consulting, work with high-performance teams, not only preparing them for the behavioural assessment that will win the project but also instilling the tenets of collaboration to carry all the way through to a successful culmination. Creating a true team takes more than a couple of nights out at the pub. It calls for hard, intentional conversations, deep honesty, and being human. “So if you think about it, all leadership really is, is a set of behaviours that are used in a certain way. And it's not exactly the same behaviours as collaboration. They can obviously, they obviously overlap a lot. But collaboration as well is a set of behaviours that are used in certain ways. So in terms of organizational development or psych behaviours, there is a canon of research and of literature and there are people who spend a lot of time and money not only researching these things, but also making them accessible to people through books, podcasts, TED talks, etc.” - Emily Mahoney
How can teams take the concept of collaboration beyond lip service and virtue signalling to create stronger, more successful projects?
We know that collaboration is the cornerstone of alliance contracting models, but countless research shows us that when it comes to behavioural cohesion, teamwork, and empathy, the type of contract is immaterial—collaborative teams across industries and contract type perform better, see greater successes, and save more money than teams built on competition and infighting.
Emily Mahoney and Sarah Laurence, the founders of Mahoney & Matthews Consulting, work with high-performance teams, not only preparing them for the behavioural assessment that will win the project but also instilling the tenets of collaboration to carry all the way through to a successful culmination. Creating a true team takes more than a couple of nights out at the pub. It calls for hard, intentional conversations, deep honesty, and being human.
“So if you think about it, all leadership really is, is a set of behaviours that are used in a certain way. And it's not exactly the same behaviours as collaboration. They can obviously, they obviously overlap a lot. But collaboration as well is a set of behaviours that are used in certain ways. So in terms of organizational development org psych behaviours, there is a canon of research and of literature and there are people who spend a lot of time and money not only researching these things, but also making them accessible to people through books, podcasts, TED talks, etc.” - Emily Mahoney
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