Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category
Collaboration framework
Organisations need simple ways to create a common understanding about what needs to be done. Our collaboration framework aims to provide two perspectives: the dashed …
Read MoreOne simple behaviour to improve collaboration
From talking with people who are trying to improve their collaboration capability, I’m detecting a scepticism with the practice of getting your team or community …
Read MoreEnsure your collaborator has a strategy
Collaboration is often hard and it takes time—time to build the relationships, time to clear up misunderstandings, time to listen and time to get things …
Read MoreCommon Ground and the Role of Stories
Last week Mark and I agreed to each develop a plan detailing how we were going to meet our targets. I opened up Excel and …
Read MoreTackling large domains in communities of practice
One of our clients is a large engineering firm (perhaps Australia’s largest) and I’ve been working with them over that last 12 months helping to …
Read MoreSeven personal skills for effective collaboration
It’s easy to talk about what collaboration is or is not or the types of collaboration. What’s difficult is to change your practices (read behaviours) …
Read MoreBeing a connector has its risks
New research has shown that we notice popular people and don’t notice unpopular people. OK, so we probably didn’t need research to tell us that …
Read MoreCollaboration by design
Lend Lease has pretty good lineage when it comes to innovative practices on the KM front. Their iKonnect program started in 2000 and is a …
Read MoreVital behaviours for communities of practice
Over at the Influencer blog David Maxfield has written a four post series on improving teamwork based on one of the key insights from his …
Read MoreA column in The Sydney Morning Herald on collaboration
Today I have a short column in SMH on the theme of team and community collaboration for small to medium enterprises.
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