do you have a collaborative culture in your organization it makes such a difference it really does um it's so important to have the right culture in order to get people to collaborate so how do we do that if you can foster connection amongst your team and your staff then there's trust when there's trust people want to work together and collaborate and hear how each other thinks what do you think absolutely to build that trust it's really important you check your ego at the door everybody always thinks they're right all the time and if you think you're right nobody's going to want to give you feedback or ideas or brainstorm with you so the other thing is you have to be willing to get vulnerable right you have to be open and honest and be willing to share the more vulnerable you are the more vulnerable others are and that allows for more ideas because you're not worrying about who's right who's wrong it's just getting all the good ideas out there and then figuring it out so speaking of collaboration and we Are Better Together how do you Foster a more collaborative culture please share in the comments so we can all learn together because when we share what works for us we all grow [Music]