by Craig Brown
This session is a structured walk-through the ideas around collaboration. I’ll be introducing key ideas and then leading participants through a workbook of eight questions that help people understand collaboration, why it is important and how they can take action to increase collaboration at their workplace.
People like the idea of collaboration, but have fuzzy ideas about what it is and what good collaboration looks like. This will help them think about collaboration in a more structured way and see opportunities for improvement in their own context.
5. Agenda
1. Your story
2. Know why collaboration is valuable
3. Know what collaboration looks like
4. Understand the cost of Collaboration
5. Diagnose the situation
6. Understand the people
7. System conditions that foster collaboration
8. Tools for collaboration
9. Permission to act
10. Experiment forward
Questions first.
Then I share
information
that I have
gathered.
19. System conditions that foster collaboration
• Recognize what
things encourage
and discourage
Collaboration
• Let’s make a list.
Encourage Discourage
Ask permission
Go first
Be consistent
Do what you say you will do
Admit mistakes and apologize
Know everyone is doing their best
Admit when you don’t know
Ask for help
Shared goals
Shared spaces
Coach your peers
Be authentic
Act with integrity
Know the boundaries and rules
Know when to break them
Coherent values and behaviors
Be honest
Be kind
Competing goals
Unclear goals
Unclear boundaries
Unclear decision making protocols
Scarce resources
Competition over collaboration
Individually assigned tasks and activities
Uncertainty about the future
Personal consequences
Incongruent behavior
Not knowing people