Collaborating can be so nice. I met Lenore Moritz Rabatin about a month ago when she contacted me to learn more about what we do at Purple Crayon Factory. Lenore is a former Public Relations executive who found creativity to be the balance she needed in her work. She is pursuing study in the connection between creativity and productivity. She asked if she could shadow a session sometime. In February, she participated in our Creativity and Tea session. She offered to help with another session and I invited her to co-facilitate a Nurture Your Creativity session for VISTA.
We got together and tailored the session for the college VISTAs. It was so fun bouncing ideas back and forth. She shared a great brainstorming technique that I'll use again now that I know how well it works. Yesterday, we co-facilitated the session for 40 VISTA participants. We had good interplay between us. I enjoyed the extra perspectives she shared as well as her assistance. Both of us felt we had gotten the better end of the deal and left delighted with the outcome.
I was reminded of how much I enjoy a good collaboration. What are your thoughts on collaboration? Are two heads really better than one? What does a productive collaboration entail?
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