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Survey Questions: Collaboration

Definition: Collaboration is the practice of fostering strong communication, relationships, and trust within a team to create a supportive and respectful environment where ideas and concerns are openly shared. It emphasizes shared goals, decision-making, and problem-solving through cooperation, consensus-building, and mutual commitment while addressing conflicts constructively. By leveraging technology, encouraging participation, and valuing diverse contributions, collaboration empowers teams to innovate and achieve objectives efficiently and effectively.

People Skills

Communication
Collaboration
Interpersonal Skills
Client Focus
Change
Resourcefulness
Recognition
Career Development
Pride/Loyalty
Professionalism
Partnering/Networking
Cultural Awareness
Meetings
Negotiation
Respect for Others
Teamwork
Trustworthy
Work/Life
Stress

Communication

Communication focuses on creating an open environment where individuals feel comfortable expressing ideas, concerns, and insights. This dimension highlights fostering dialogue, encouraging participation, ensuring psychological safety, and promoting transparency across teams and departments. It prioritizes engagement and openness, ensuring that people actively communicate and collaborate without hesitation.

The project manager creates an environment where team members feel safe to express their ideas and concerns without fear of judgment.
The supervisor encourages open dialog and sharing of information among team members.
I am able to share concerns and issues with others in my work group.
The project manager encourages team members to voice differing viewpoints and ensures those perspectives are heard and acknowledged.
Our department has an environment where everyone feels comfortable sharing knowledge and information.
The department head promotes open participation and communication within department and throughout the organization.
My manager creates an environment of open and transparent communication.
My supervisor facilitates discussions that ensure all team members understand goals, timelines, and interdependencies.
Managers communicate decisions, changes, and expectations promptly so the team can adjust and stay aligned.
The supervisor clarifies misunderstandings quickly to prevent confusion and keep collaborative work on track.
The company encourages open communication to support a collaborative work environment.

Relationships

Relationships focuses on building strong interpersonal and professional connections that foster trust, communication, and long-term collaboration. This dimension highlights networking across departments, strengthening partnerships with suppliers, encouraging cross-functional teamwork, and ensuring meaningful interactions that support collaboration. It prioritizes relationship-building and trust, ensuring that solid professional bonds enhance teamwork and communication.

I am comfortable working with employees from different departments/divisions.
My manager strengthens relationships with suppliers to improve contract and price negotiation terms.
Our department is able to collaborate across departmental boundaries and finds common ground with a wide range of stakeholders.
I can develop networks and build alliances with employees throughout the company.
I am able to develop networks and build alliances across departments.
Employees in our department build strong interpersonal relationships for more effective collaboration.
I maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality standards are met.
My supervisor provides training and support for relationship building in the team.
Employees in our department develop strong collaborative relationships with suppliers.
My coworkers build strong partnerships with others.
In our department, we are encouraged to build strong relationships with suppliers to improve communications and reduce misunderstandings and delays.

Collaborative Environment

Collaborative Environment focuses on creating a workplace culture that encourages teamwork, shared problem-solving, and collective success. This dimension highlights promoting collaboration in department values, fostering trust and respect, discouraging hyper-competitive behavior, and modeling collaborative actions. It prioritizes structural and cultural reinforcement, ensuring that employees are encouraged to work together in a supportive and innovation-driven atmosphere.

The manager builds an environment of trust and respect to encourage risk-taking, innovation, and sharing of ideas.
The department chair avoids promoting a hyper competitive culture in favor of a more collaborative one.
My manager clearly articulates the importance of collaboration in the department's values and vision.
The supervisor models collaborative behavior through leading by example.
The project lead promotes a culture of collaboration rather than rivalry.
The project managers create an environment where collaboration and teamwork is encouraged.
My manager cultivates a collaborative culture that drives innovation, productivity, and employee satisfaction.
Our department creates a culture that fosters and values collaboration.
Our department creates a culture that encourages understanding and valuing diverse perspectives to effectively resolve conflicts.

Information Sharing

Information Sharing emphasizes the structured exchange of knowledge, data, and resources to enhance efficiency and problem-solving. This dimension centers on pooling insights, facilitating knowledge transfer, ensuring access to relevant data, and leveraging shared expertise for improved decision-making. It prioritizes accessibility and knowledge flow, making sure valuable information is distributed effectively among team members.

Team members work with each other to pool knowledge, ideas and resources to provide deeper insights into difficult issues.
Coworkers share insights, innovations, and resources to enhance efficiency.
My manager ensures information flows freely across departments.
My manager summarizes key points and next steps after group discussions to maintain shared understanding.
Coworkers readily share information with other group members.
Our department creates an environment that encourages information sharing.
My manager creates an environment to support free exchange of information.
Team members share information with others.
The team leader ensures relevant data is available to all committee members.
The manager shares knowledge, ideas and resources to achieve quicker success.
Team members work with other to share knowledge and information.

Open to Input

Open to Input emphasizes actively seeking, listening to, and implementing ideas and feedback from team members to improve collaboration and innovation. This dimension centers on ensuring employees feel heard, valuing diverse perspectives, encouraging contributions, and refining processes based on collective insights. It prioritizes engagement and receptivity, ensuring that individuals feel empowered to shape decisions and enhance teamwork.

Co-workers are willing to listen to the ideas and suggestions from others.
My manager seeks continuous improvement through the input from coworkers and staff.
Managers are open to unique and creative ideas from others.
Coworkers are open to feedback and willing to share insights to foster a collaborative work environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute.
My manager listens and attends to the my ideas.
Senior leadership gives consideration to the innovative ideas presented by others.
The manager regularly seeks feedback from employees on how to improve collaboration and acts on their suggestions.
The leader encourages team members to offer opinions and ideas.
Our team values the diverse perspectives and skills each team member brings to the table, recognizing that collaborative efforts often lead to more innovative and effective solutions.

Shared Decision-Making

Shared Decision-Making emphasizes collaboratively evaluating options and making choices that impact the team, department, or organization. This dimension highlights including stakeholders in discussions, valuing diverse perspectives, ensuring group-based decision-making, and integrating expert insights into leadership choices. It prioritizes consensus-building and collective input, ensuring that decisions reflect the knowledge and agreement of multiple contributors.

The project manager makes decisions with other members of the group.
Our team uses group decision making.
The team leader values others in decision making.
My manager includes all stakeholders in the decision making process.
My manager places value on the views of others in decision making.
Team members are able to collaborate with each other in group decision making.
Senior leadership at the company allows various stakeholders to contribute their expertise in the decision making process.

Consensus

Consensus focuses on bringing people together to agree on decisions and priorities through discussion and negotiation. This dimension highlights consensus-building activities, identifying shared interests, ensuring alignment, and fostering agreement among stakeholders to create a unified direction. It prioritizes decision-making harmony and stakeholder buy-in, ensuring that choices reflect collective understanding and acceptance.

Managers involve others in reaching a consensus during group activities.
The team leader works to build consensus among team members.
The supervisor identifies and prioritizes needs based on shared interests.
My manager engages in consensus-building activities.
The team leader ensures that all members are aligned and motivated, contributing to a cohesive and productive team dynamic.
Managers keep everyone aligned and motivated to maintain a cohesive and productive team.
The senior manager builds consensus among partners.

Shared Goals

Shared Goals emphasizes establishing clear objectives that unite team members and drive collective efforts toward a common purpose. This dimension centers on defining goals, obtaining a shared vision, ensuring clarity, and encouraging collaboration to achieve results. It prioritizes goal-setting and unified direction, making sure all team members are working toward aligned outcomes.

Coworkers are willing to work with each other to achieve common objectives.
The executive leadership team defines shared goals with the committee members.
We are encouraged to work together to achieve shared goals.
The manager works to obtain a shared vision for goals and objectives of the team.
Our project manager ensures all team members understand the goals.
The team leader collaborates with team members to achieve common goals.

Shared Problem Solving

Shared Problem Solving focuses on working together to identify challenges, brainstorm solutions, and implement innovative strategies to address problems. This dimension centers on leveraging different viewpoints, engaging in collaborative problem-solving, fostering creativity, and ensuring that teamwork drives effective solutions. It prioritizes solution-oriented collaboration and strategic thinking, ensuring that teams work together to resolve issues efficiently.

My manager works effectively with others to create innovative solutions to problems.
Coworkers are willing to work with others to solve problems.
My manager works with other experts to solve problems.
The people I work with understand that collaboration often leads to more innovative and effective solutions.
My manager allows various stakeholders to contribute their expertise to the solution of a problem.
I actively seek opportunities to work with colleagues to address and resolve challenges.
I am able to work with others to develop strategies to identify needs and priorities.
Our department fosters a collaborative work environment where mutual inspiration leads to innovative problem-solving.
Senior leadership at the company promotes a culture of collaboration, shared inspiration and creativity to tackle workplace problems.

Cooperation

Cooperation emphasizes actively working together toward shared goals, fostering teamwork, and ensuring a collaborative approach to problem-solving. This dimension centers on mutual engagement, reducing competitiveness, coordinating efforts, and enabling collaboration to achieve results. It prioritizes team synergy and collective effort, ensuring that individuals align their actions to support common objectives effectively.

My supervisor gains the cooperation of others to accomplish common goals and objectives.
Our department builds and strengthens relationships to improve collaboration and leadership.
My manager fosters a cooperative environment rather than a highly competitive one.
The team leader actively engages with team members to foster a cooperative environment.
Coworkers work cooperatively with each other to solve problems.

Conflict Management

Conflict Management focuses on resolving interpersonal disputes in a constructive and positive manner to strengthen team unity. This dimension highlights encouraging open dialogue, guiding team members through conflict resolution, fostering a collaborative mindset when addressing differences, and ensuring disagreements do not disrupt productivity. It prioritizes problem resolution and relationship repair, ensuring that tensions are addressed effectively to maintain harmony in the workplace.

The team leader guides team members to reconcile their differences and collaborate effectively.
My manager encourages teammates to settle their differences and work together.
People in my department collaborate with others to resolve conflicts constructively.
The supervisor is good at resolving differences to strengthen team unity.
I feel the people I work with collaborate to manage interpersonal disputes with a positive approach.
I am able to work with others to resolve minor disputes.
People in my department address interpersonal issues with a collaborative mindset.
Coworkers work with each other to manage conflicts using a constructive approach.

Contribution

Contribution focuses on actively providing resources, knowledge, expertise, and effort to strengthen the success of a team or project. This dimension highlights supporting others with valuable insights, recognizing contributions, empowering colleagues, and offering assistance that drives positive outcomes. It prioritizes giving and strengthening teamwork, ensuring individuals enhance collective success through their input.

If necessary, I am able to consult with other partners on issues.
The team leader devotes time and energy to empower the team to succeed.
Our department encourages diversity of opinions and ideas.
My team leader contributes resources and knowledge to help the team achieve its goals.
Our team lead recognizes and rewards the contributions of team members.
The project manager contributes expertise, insights, and resources to accelerate solutions to problems.
My manager contributes resources and knowledge to support others' success.
The project manager rewards collaborative efforts of team members.

Participates

Participates emphasizes engaging in collaborative efforts, joining discussions, and taking part in shared activities that require teamwork and cooperation. This dimension centers on involvement in committees, decision-making, brainstorming, and fostering active engagement within the group. It prioritizes presence and collaboration, ensuring individuals are actively involved and contribute their time and effort.

I am able to participate on committees and working groups.
The manager shares skills and time to help the team thrive.
The supervisor engages with team members to build a collaborative work environment.
The project manager participates in the team's deliberations.
Coworkers work together to create innovative ideas from the collaborative effort.
The people I work with are willing to collaborate in time, effort, and expertise to help achieve success.
In our department, we participate in collaborative/team decision-making.

Commitment

Commitment emphasizes dedication to fostering a collaborative work culture and ensuring team members remain invested in collective goals. This dimension centers on promoting teamwork, encouraging employees to support one another, rewarding collaboration, and securing buy-in for shared objectives. It prioritizes engagement and teamwork reinforcement, ensuring individuals feel motivated to contribute to team success.

The supervisor encourages collaboration of fellow employees to achieve results.
Our department encourages collaboration with other departments.
The manager encourages, promotes and rewards collaboration for improved performance.
Our manager is committed to fostering a collaborative work environment in the department.
My manager uses effective strategies to re-engage team members and secure their commitment to the business's common good.
Our department fosters a collaborative work environment where everyone feels committed to achieve common goals.
The project manager works to get buy-in of individuals based on common good of business.

Trust

Trust focuses on building confidence, reliability, and credibility among team members to foster a dependable work environment. This dimension highlights honesty, dependability, mutual belief in others' abilities, and creating an atmosphere where individuals feel secure in relying on their colleagues. It prioritizes confidence and reliability, ensuring that teams function smoothly with a strong foundation of integrity.

My manager has the confidence and trust of other partners.
Managers display a high degree of trust and credibility.
Senior leadership encourages trust among committee members.
My manager is honest with others.
I have the confidence and trust of other team members.
My manager is a trustworthy and credible partner.
Our department builds a culture of trust and mutual respect where team members are encouraged to value each other's contributions.
I am a dependable partner in the group.

Respect

Respect emphasizes acknowledging and valuing the perspectives, experiences, and differences of others to promote inclusivity and effective collaboration. This dimension centers on being tactful and compassionate, recognizing contributions, fostering open discussions, and ensuring team members feel heard and appreciated. It prioritizes courtesy and appreciation, ensuring that individuals work harmoniously by valuing one another.

The people I work with respect the input from other committee members.
My manager is tactful, compassionate and sensitive to the needs of others.
Senior leaders recognize and understand the views of other partners and associates.
Managers are respectful of others in group discussions.
I am respectful of others in group discussions.
My manager respects individual differences that contribute to solving problems.
My team leader respects and utilizes diverse perspectives in addressing challenges.
The department head considers the views of other colleagues and associates.
The team leader respects the group/team members.

Technology

In our department, we integrate technology to boost collaborative work on process and policy documentation.
The project lead uses digital tools to improve collaboration in the department.
My team integrates digital tools to streamline the collaborative processes of research and development.
Our department effectively uses technology to facilitate collaborative efforts in building process and policy documents.
Our department uses digital tools to support collaborative efforts in document creation.
My manager is effective in utilizing digital tools to enhance collaborative efforts in creating process and policy documents.
My manager has equipped the team with the right tools and technologies to facilitate collaboration.