Posts by Nicole
Successful Collaborations start with Commonality
Successful collaborations start with commonality. The most important commonality elements include establishing and agreeing on goals for the collaboration, having strong champions, and designing the collaboration to benefit all participants.
Read MoreHow Your Competition Could Make You More Successful: 2021 Research Findings
While it might seem intuitive that collaborators are avoiding working with organizations who provide similar products and services to the same audience, we were surprised to see that the opposite is true.
Read MoreInvisible Obstacles to Collaboration
Communication is a key ingredient to being a successful collaborator. Honing your presentation and listening skills will make a difference. However, there are obstacles that can get in your way of successful collaborations. These could be considered invisible obstacles to collaboration because they are easy to overlook. Imposter Syndrome One of the biggest obstacles that many people suffer from…
Read MorePresentation and Listening Skills for Successful Collaborations
Improving presentation and listening skills will make us better communicators and collaborators. Performance coach Carol Lempert shared insights on how to sound and look confident, how to pitch an idea, and how to use high gain questions to make stronger connections and create better collaborations.
Read MoreThe Creative Process and Collaboration
The very essence of the creative process that happens when producing theatre is grounded in collaboration. … it’s how you show up to the collaboration that will make the biggest impact.
Read MoreCollaboration research: What did 150+ travel, tourism, and hospitality professionals say?
Backed by stats In December of 2020, we surveyed 161 travel, tourism, and hospitality professionals to learn more about their stance on collaboration. The results of our collaboration research showed 99% of respondents said their organizations had collaborated with others in the industry. The results also showed that 45% said their organizations had extensive experience…
Read More5 Lessons Learned During the Travel Pause
As a business serving clients in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry exclusively, when the travel pause began in March 2020 we wondered if we would make it through the year. On Monday, March 16, 2020 I drove to work after dropping my kids off at school expecting to start another work week with our…
Read MoreApplying Tourism Marketing Strategies to Talent Attraction
Communities looking to attract new residents or improve talent attraction for their local businesses could steal a few strategies from the tourism marketing playbook.
Read MoreCo-opetition: Good For Business
I am a huge believer in co-opetition – where perceived competitors cooperate and together create something bigger than they could do on their own. It is this type of collaboration that I think makes the biggest impact and the guests on my podcast Destination on the Left believe it too. I have been learning from…
Read MoreTourism Innovation: Five 2020 Practices to Carry into 2021
Let’s not let the last 12 months go to waste. It may seem hard to find but, I know there was a lot of good that came out of last year. As we start 2021, these are five things that the travel, tourism and hospitality industry can take forward with us to continue the tourism…
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