The Collaboration Hack: 7 Tools of Team Dynamics to Upgrade Your Company Culture

By Kimberly Culbertson and Coach Culbertson

Ready to move your team from chaos to collaboration? Kimberly and Coach walk you through one of the easiest ways to hack corporate culture that will add not only reduce conflict but when it does, show you how to harness conflict as an innovation engine.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: KC Business Books
• Release date: Dec 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798868961359

Kimberly Culbertson

Kimberly Culbertson consults with companies of all sizes, from small regional teams and startups to large international organizations. As a team dynamics consultant and practitioner, her collaboration has resulted in millions of dollars saved, numerous conflicts resolved, and marked increase in employee engagement and retention. CEO's and managers report less sleepless nights and morning worries, and employees all over the globe have remarked that they are enjoying their work and their teams, and that's good news!

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Introduction: Why Every Workplace Needs a Language of Value

We’ve all been there—a whisper across a breakroom table or a cubicle wall. I can’t believe he did that. What a jerk. I would never...

You may be thinking even now about someone who irritates you—maybe it’s their cloying, manipulative timidness, or, conversely, their sheer audacity. Or maybe you are sighing because what’s coming to mind is a memory of someone who pulled your words or actions out of context, taking offense where you meant none.

As leadership, team dynamics, and culture consultants, we’re all too familiar with this kind of conversation. Nothing sinks collaboration, productivity, and creativity quite as quickly as a team that’s spending its best energy fighting one another.

We’re often called in to handle dire circumstances when managers have thrown up their hands, wondering if the only way back to good is to fire everyone and start fresh. But this is an incredibly expensive solution, both financially and in terms of your work culture, so we generally counsel companies to avoid it. That’s why one of our unofficial mottos is:

We’ll help you get the best results out of the team you already have.

While we do a lot of work with clients who want to set the stage for a healthy work culture, more often than not, we’re walking into a mess. We see A LOT of conflict in this job. It’s common for the person explaining the conflict to characterize the colleague in question as an evil mastermind, an insufferable brown-noser, or some other bleepity-bleep. Choose your own character assassination phrase—we've heard them all. But in reality, conflict rarely has its roots in the actions or words of one malicious person. Yes, you might have a truly evil coworker, but it’s