In our career development webinar for AMWA Southwest, we talked about collaboration as an important activity for upskilling as a medical communicator.
Strong, lasting professional connections begin with networking and flourish with collaboration. Developing collaborations helps professionals enhance soft and interpersonal skills, such as the ability to communicate, strategize, empathize, resolve conflict, and make decisions in leadership and other roles.
In this post, I share insights into the activities that have personally helped me form enduring, beneficial, and meaningful collaborations with other medical communicators.
Presenting Jointly at Conferences
Giving talks or facilitating sessions at conferences with one or more colleagues offers a diverse, deeper insight into a topic and provides an engaging experience for the audience. Presenters can also leverage each other’s strengths, learn from one another, regularly build teamwork skills, and boost their confidence.
Volunteering for Professional Organizations
Volunteering fosters collaboration between people who work toward common goals to support professional communities. Organizing events, leading a team, overcoming challenges, and making important changes within an organization are examples of activities that allow professionals to learn new skills or improve existing ones, helping their own practice and the teams they oversee.
Working on Collaborative Projects
Collaboration can be taken to the next level by expanding the teamwork to contribute to larger projects, which may, sometimes, even lead to developing business partnerships. My long-term collaboration with Kelly led to the launch of Evergreen, our joint venture!
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