Collaboration
Tools for learning to building better team work.
Collaboration Workouts
These workouts emphasize “collaboration muscle” awareness, development, and habit-building through repetition. They can be performed both face-to-face or remotely.
Faster Than 20
Assertiveness Workbook How To Express Your Ideas & Stand Up for Yourself at Work & in Relationships
Explore how to start and run your own private therapy practice. Learn how to set and maintain personal boundaries without becoming inaccessible. Become more genuine and open in relationships without fearing attack. Defend yourself when you are criticized or asked to submit to unreasonable requests.
Randy J Paterson
ORSC™ Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching
Check out this coaching model from Center for Right Relationship.
CRR Global
Liberating Structures
This is an alternative approach to designing how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices.
Liberating Structures
The Haruko Accord – Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
This accord can be used for pedagogical and/or artistic collaborative processes that aim to interrupt harmful habits of being related to systemic, historical and on-going violence, and to patterns of unsustainability.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute Mediation Resources
A living document to uplift and grow the field of Black mediators who are available to support Black movement needs.
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute Mediation Resources
Creating Intelligent Teams
Listening closely, embracing different perspectives, asking questions and learning to share are just some of the tips in this guide to creating successful teams.
Dennis Johnson and Sort Sol Group
Sample Group Norms for Organizational Anti-Oppression Work
This brief guide presents four group agreements for teams meant to dismantle white supremacy, patriarchy and other forms of oppression.
Kimberly Freeman Brown
Jumpstart Team Success: Build a Container for Collaboration
Build a high performing team with an understanding of worth of investment and creating a team brief.
Laura Peck
Open and Honest Questions
A one-page overview with methods for asking open and honest questions that aren’t simply advice or analysis in disguise.
Center for Courage & Renewal
Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians
Discover four primary work styles and related strategies for accomplishing shared goals.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
Strengthen your organization’s ability to perform complex collaborative tasks by maximizing the effectiveness of large, diverse teams while minimizing the disadvantages posed by their structure and composition.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
The New Science of Building Great Teams
Understand the group dynamics that characterize high-performing teams.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
How Managers Can Make Group Projects More Efficient
Review promising practices for effective collaboration that leave inefficiencies and messiness out of the process.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
Getting Your Stars to Collaborate
Produce results in a resourceful, creative, and productive manner.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills
Team fit is not only about skills and experience, it is also about personality. This article reviews how evaluating the whole person, including personality, can offer pivotal insights into how people are likely to work together, and can help flag areas of conflict and aversion.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
The Secrets of Great Teamwork
Provide teams with the enabling conditions, those needed in order to thrive.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
How to Preempt Team Conflict
Build a foundation of trust and understanding for effective collaboration.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
Embracing Agile
Discover six practices that leaders may adopt to capitalize on the potential of agile.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)
The Secret to Better Problem Solving (IdeaCast)
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg discusses reframing as a nimbler approach to diagnosing problems than existing frameworks.
HBR Ideacast
Collaborating Better Across Silos (IdeaCast)
Heidi K. Gardner discusses how competitive edge is gained when individuals collaborate across boundaries.
HBR Ideacast
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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GROW COMMUNITY
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