foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work
You’re leading people through constant change. Evolving expectations, AI disruption, and rising pressure to get culture and performance right.
If you’re an HR leader, People and Culture executive, or senior business leader shaping the future of work, foHRsight is for you.
foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work is a weekly podcast from future foHRward, hosted by Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman Colla. Each episode explores the most pressing issues facing HR and leadership today, including employee engagement, retention, flexible work, leadership effectiveness, and the real impact of AI on organizations.
Through candid conversations with CHROs, senior leaders, and forward-thinking experts, foHRsight delivers practical insight and strategic perspective you can apply immediately. The goal is simple: help you make better people decisions, build stronger organizations, and lead with confidence in an increasingly complex world of work.
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foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work
How To Build Incredible Collaborative Relationships at Work with Guest Deb Mashek
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Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.
In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman meets with Deb Mashek is a business advisor, professor and collaboration consultant who wrote the book Collaborhate.
You can find out more here about Debs here –https://www.debmashek.com/
In the conversation, Deb shares her perspective on collaboration – something we know is important but something that can be very hard to do creating some mixed emotions and mixed results.
Deb defines collaboration as ‘two or more known individuals working together intentionally to advance specific shared goals’.
In the conversation they talk about when collaboration fizzles and when it sizzles! If it fizzles and you’re in a collaborhate situation the impact on individual’s health can be very negative.
Take a listen to learn how to ensure collaboration is a success by learning the key behaviours to make you a successful collaborator and use the Mashek Matrix (see below) to understand more about how collaborative your relationships are.
To read more about Arthur Himmelman’s collaboration continuum follow this link -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIfDItDSwXuHFruAuatNg2ojUv9GAxQi/view
Here is a link to Naomi’s Global & Mail article that features Deb Mashek’s “no to collaboration”.
Here's a link to The Mashek Matrix –
https://tinyurl.com/mashekmatrix
And finally here are the questions to help set expectations at the outset of a collaboration -
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