The Wisdom of Collaboration

Recently I had the opportunity to attend an outstanding conference on Healthcare Internet Strategy. It's not everyday that you have the opportunity to sit next to the professionals who do exactly what you do- but for their respective organizations.

Here are some successful strategies for collaborating with your peers:

• Leave your title home.
• Attend events together and talk about it after.
• Make time to get to know your colleagues, as people.
• Ask how they handle the everyday and special issues you deal with.
• Find out what makes them successful in their organization.
• Spend quality time together.
• These are your peers, not competitors.
  
• Brainstorm on new ideas.
• Set-up a professional communications network (http://webiscope.com)
• Establish a schedule for staying in-touch.
• Promote each other's successes.
• Visit each other's Web sites.
• Blog about it...