“Four simple but powerful keys that will help you and your colleagues knock down barriers and create a winning team.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® Your people might be your organization’s greatest assets, but it’s their interactions with one another that determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions—and few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together.
This book shows how, describing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together—building greater trust, understanding, and collaboration.
“This book is filled with wonderful common sense; alas, uncommonly practiced. Anyone who wants to improve their own communication and their team’s collaboration skills cannot come away untouched.” —Beverly Kaye, Founder and Co-CEO, Career Systems International and coauthor of
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go “This book is a laser beam on what makes work and all other relationships work. It declares that face-to-face relationships, not technology, not clear objectives, vision and metrics, are what make organizations adaptive and sustainable.” —Peter Block, author of
Flawless Consulting
Organizations are only as productive as the interactions that take place between individuals, teams and divisions. This book is a short, engaging guide for dramatically improving the quality of these interactions. The four "keys" that Judith Katz and Frederick Miller provide offer a framework and a common language for creating an open, honest and supportive workplace, one where people aren't afraid to speak up and where everyone feels respected. The four keys are:
¿ Lean into Discomfort: Be willing to move beyond your comfort zone, and help create an environment where others feel the same way.¿ Listen as an Ally: Try to find ways you can support fellow employee's ideas. ¿ Share Your Intent and Intensity: Make it crystal clear how committed you feel to any idea you raise.¿ Share Street Corners: Your perspective-your corner-is only one point of view. Actively encourage people from other "corners" to offer their perspectives.
“This book is filled with wonderful common sense; alas, uncommonly practiced. Anyone who wants to improve their own communication and their team's collaboration skills cannot come away untouched.”
—Beverly Kaye, Founder and Co-CEO, Career Systems International and coauthor of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go and Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em
“Judith and Fred share four simple but powerful keys that will help you and your colleagues knock down barriers and create a winning team. Regardless of organizational level, your team will form a lasting bond that upholds an idiom my associates and I learned long ago: No one of us is as smart as all of us.”
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Great Leaders Grow
“The beauty of Opening Doors is its ability to translate complex human interactions into simple but meaningful language that help leaders unlock the potential of their organization and initiate transformational culture change that will result in more engaged employees, higher productivity, increased performance and stronger, more sustainable business results.”
—Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo
“This book is a laser beam on what makes work and all other relationships work. It declares that face-to-face relationships, not technology, not clear objectives, vision and metrics are what make organizations adaptive and sustainable.”
—Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, and Community
“This book is the best training I've received on how to achieve breakthroughs for greater performance. Devoid of jargon, it demonstrates brilliantly, how countless opportunities can arise when we choose to have more collaborative moments in life.
—Michelle Martin, radio personality and host of "The Wow Club" 938LIVE, Mediacorp Radio, Singapore 
