By Monique MacKinnon and Patricia Weber, Collaboration Strategists

My complete list of what I want in a collaboration partner is two pages but length is not as important as specificity.

Get it out of your head! Otherwise those attractive ideas, to bring you just the right partner, just float up and away.

So, let’s not assume we easily take the time to get clear on anything we want, including a joint venture!

Get your description of your ideal joint venture partner down on paper and you can start and then continue conversations at a pace that will likely surprise you. Knowing someone to the degree where trust moves the collaboration forward is more easily facilitated with clarity. Even with the ideal joint venture characteristics, other variables may mean conversations take days, weeks and even months to reach agreement. The time frame is dependent on mutual clarity, trust and goals.

One thing that can enhance the trust is to share this list with your potential Ideal joint venture partner. Make it part of your exploratory conversation. Joint venture success is more of building rapport and trust in both the beginning and ensuing conversations. When you get clear about what you want in a joint venture partner, you will find you also attract someone who is likely as this same stage in his or her search for collaboration. Willingness to share each other’s lists puts you and this potential partner at a similar starting point and you feel
more connected with commonalities.

One of the reasons for joint venture breakdowns is lack of rapport and regular communication that fits both partners’ preferred styles, which can lead to micromanaging or cheating. Issues like this can be minimized if the partners take time early on to communicate the factors that are most important to each, thereby deepening rapport and trust.

“The power of intention is the power to manifest, to create, to live a
life of unlimited abundance, and to attract into your life the right
people at the right moments.” - Wayne Dyer

What have you done in attracting your best collaboration partners, Dynamos as we like to call them?

What are one of your top tips in finding the best joint venture partners?

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