Episode 210-Collaboration #3-Jim Tamm on Radical Collaboration with Lois Sonstegard,PHD

Welcome to Episode 210 of Building My Legacy.

If the term “radical collaboration” sounds like an oxymoron, you’ll want to learn how Jim Tamm — author, keynote speaker and team builder — coined this phrase and why he now considers effective collaboration a basic survival skill. In this podcast Jim talks about how his background as a California senior administrative law judge gave him the experience to help employees in adversarial workplaces become more collaborative. Today he helps organizations become better at collaboration internally as well as with other companies.



So if you want to know:

– How we become defensive not because of a threat but as a result of our own fears

– The five essential skills to overcome defensiveness so that you can create a more collaborative environment

– How to collaborate in a very tense setting

– Why and how you can collaborate with people you don’t trust

– How it can be easier to deal with a hostile environment (“red zone”) than a conflict-avoidant environment (“pink zone”)


About Jim Tamm

Jim Tamm spent most of his career as a California senior administrative law judge where he mediated more school district labor strikes than anyone else in the country. Today he helps organizations become better at collaboration, conducting “radical collaboration” workshops, building team collaboration and offering online collaboration programs. Jim is the co-author of Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships, which has been a top Amazon seller in several categories for most of the past 15 years. Learn more at Jim’s website, www.RadicalCollaboration.com. You can also hear Jim’s Ted Talk, “First Step to Collaboration? Don’t Be So Defensive!” at