Developing productive relationshipsRelationships with the faculty, staff, and leadership at your own and other institutions plays an important role in your overall productivityProductivity, reputation, satisfaction, and success by enhancing effective collaborationCollaboration and teamworkTeamwork. In addition, developing good relationshipsRelationships with donorsDonors, community leaders, local mediaMedia, and government officials can provide substantial benefitsBenefits. Collegiality is an important factor in developing positive relationshipsRelationships and a personal behavior that you should understand and promote. Your ability to collaborate effectively is highly dependent on the relationshipsRelationships you develop with colleagues and a key to expanding the scope and scale of your research, clinical, teachingTeaching, and administrative activities. Likewise, the level of teamworkTeamwork among the staff, students, and colleagues working with you on projects reflects the relationshipsRelationships you have developed with them. Collaboration and teamworkTeamwork are well recognized characteristics of high performance and productivityProductivity, and are essential to the commitment to mutual success in partnershipsPartnerships.