Boost team creativity & collaboration skills in your organization
For innovation to flourish, organizations must create an environment that fosters creativity; bringing together multi-talented groups of people who work in close collaboration together— exchanging knowledge, ideas and shaping the direction of the future. Easier said than done in siloed environments.
The ability to collaborate across disciplines, business units and customers is crucial to your innovation success —especially when you are engaged in lean, agile, and/or design thinking processes. Good collaboration fosters original thinking, creativity, and innovation.
“Bad collaboration is worse than no collaboration.” —Morten T Hansen
Explore the principles and practices of effective collaboration in this experiential training.
Trainings/Workshops are customized for your organization to help leaders and teams in marketing, sales, HR, engineering, IT, finance, R&D and related functions.
Topics include:
- Assess your collaboration IQ: A self-evaluation tool.
- Collaboration principles and practices
- Establishing rules of engagement for collaboration
- Distinctions between collaboration, cooperation, and consensus
- Identify and overcome the four barriers to collaboration
- Collaborative leadership practices
- Foster a collaborative culture that values talent, diversity, relationships and connections.
Action-based Learning Activities
Hands-on activities involve arts-based approaches to create safety, build trust, find shared values, shift perceptions, and uncover the ‘group gold’ that leads to breakthroughs in problem-solving. The arts are especially useful in helping people from different cultures find common ground and build cohesion.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop the collaborative leadership and management skills required to create trusting, collaborative environments that inspire and engage diverse groups of people to co-create.
- Build relationships to form networks and self-organizing collegial communities of practice to enhance serendipity and innovation.
- Know when not to collaborate, and avoid wasting time and energy when collaboration is unnecessary.
- Leave the workshop with proven methods for cultivating collaboration in groups and teams.
Time frame: half-day to two days
See also Adventures in Learning about Creativity