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Collaborative Leadership Development

Peter Simoons

You want to sustain and increase your leadership success, with your team and in collaboration with other organisations in alliances, partnerships and ecosystems. We live in the decades of collaboration. Working with a coach on your collaborative leadership success is much like working with a guide on a journey.

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How to Collaborate Among Competitors?

Peter Simoons

In a recent virtual coffee call, I was asked how to organise a governance structure for a collaboration of 10 competitors. The role of the alliance manager in this collaboration was critical. Should it be someone from the initiator, who was one of the largest companies in the collaboration? Establish a Steering Committee.

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The Benefits of a Collaborative Culture

Peter Simoons

When we talk about alliances, we tend to focus on the external component: collaborating with other organisations. By itself that is correct, after all alliances are collaborations between two or more organisations to accomplish a goal that one of the organisations cannot achieve on its own. So we do need external parties!

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The Collaborative Value in Press Releases

Peter Simoons

Press releases generally have “me, me, me” written all over them, there is no collaborative value in there, even when they contain an alliance announcement. A good example is this press release about a new collaborative initiative, called Nothing Small About It , by Jazz Pharmaceuticals and four cancer organisations.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

How to optimize content creation and collaboration for the moment of need. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind. In this webinar you'll learn: Best practices for virtually onboarding and training sales reps. Why video is so important in coaching your reps.

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From Cave Walls to Boardrooms: The Evolution of Collaboration

Peter Simoons

This early form of collaboration was likely based on trust. The industrial revolution saw the birth of factories, and a new type of collaboration. Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs is redefining collaboration with an open, transparent and supportive mindset. The spectrum of collaboration ranges from trust to control.

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Building Internal Collaboration as a Foundation for External Success

Peter Simoons

“The success of your external collaboration is directly tied to your ability to collaborate internally.” A strong internal collaborative culture is crucial for successful external partnerships. Individual Level: Ultimately, collaboration starts with you.