Instant messaging facilities are commonplace in offices, enabling colleagues to relay questions and comments without leaving their desks.
In its new permanent locations in New York, for example, Empire HealthChoice plans to install a low-cost videoconferencing system that works over the Internet, enabling colleagues to establish virtual meetings without a lot of fuss.
Leaders should be coaches and encourage strong collaboration, emphasizing their colleagues' strengths and enabling colleagues to be the best that they can be.
Consider investing in technology that enables colleagues to share documents on their computer desktops without actually holding a meeting.
"Positively, it enabled colleagues to get to know everybody on the team and we felt [like] a united service," she says.
Instead, Findley et al.'s proposal should form a pre-submission step that enables colleagues and peers to evaluate a paper's experimental design and protocol prior to submission to a journal for regular peer review.
Ask yourself this question: Am I creating a culture that enables colleagues to create the future, form feedback-rich relationships for mutual success, make beliefs transparent, and collaborate and co-create positive CHANGES?
At one point during hours of rioting early on Thursday, police fired warning shots to ward a mob of youths who had cornered them, before riot officers arrived in jeeps, enabling their colleagues on foot to flee to safety.
"It's enabling," his colleague David Goldberg said.
While the Internet has not exactly overturned that pattern, it has created a forum for hundreds of e-mail lists and Web sites that enable former colleagues to keep in touch, plan reunions and share job leads.
"For Christ's sake, you read it, James," said Cecil Parkinson to Lord Mackay, Thatcher's Lord Chancellor, sitting next to her. "I can read it myself," she said, and this time got through to the end: "… if I stood down to enable cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership".
