Collaboration Leadership Quotes

#1. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

Jane Ripley

#2. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Kirsten Siggins

#3. Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#4. Mentoring is motivated by love.

J.A. Perez

#5. When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#6. Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

Tony Dovale

#7. High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

Tony Dovale

#8. Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever.

Dan Pontefract

#9. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Oli Anderson

#10. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

#11. When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#12. If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

John Kuypers

#13. Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#14. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#15. Leadership must come from all of us
the private, public, and civil sectors.

Eric Lowitt

#16. People need to feel safe to be who they are - to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#17. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#18. Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

Jane Ripley

#19. The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#20. You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#21. Don't look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.

Phil Dourado

#22. Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

Jane Ripley

#23. The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#24. Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

Oli Anderson

#25. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Oli Anderson

#26. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton