WHY DON'T TEAMS COLLABORATE?
“The reality is that true collaboration is difficult and time consuming. It requires subordinating individual goals to collective achievement; it means engaging in tough, emotional give-and-take discussions with colleagues about strategies and ideas; and it often leads to working in new ways that may not be comfortable or easy. So given these difficulties, most teams find it easier to talk about collaboration rather than do it.
It doesn't have to be this way. Teams can address their challenges through true collaboration, and by doing so can achieve outstanding results.”
— Ron Ashkenas, "Why Teams Don't Collaborate," Forbes
THE ART OF INNOVATION: Advanced III
Inspire creativity, collaboration, and change
When leaders attempt to motivate people, inspire creative thinking, or implement change, without a strategy they often encounter resistance, quash good ideas, or get mediocre outcomes.
In this fast-changing, global marketplace, your teams and leaders must collaborate effectively, generate fresh ideas quickly, and produce competitive results. Inspiring change requires leaders to build resilience within their teams, leverage the diverse thinking of their best people, and clear the runway for successful collaboration and growth.
Develop the art of innovation in three core areas:
CULTIVATING INNOVATION: Encourage diverse thought to drive ideation
- Generate new ideas quickly and make fast, informed decisions
- Leverage diverse perspectives to produce creative results
- Discover how Design Thinking can bring your vision to life
BUILDING COLLABORATIVE TEAMS: Increase trust to produce results
- Evolve from finger-pointing to efficient, unified problem-solving
- Develop mutual respect by discovering shared values and purpose
- Facilitate clear, open, and dynamic group dialogue to build trust
LEADING CHANGE: Leverage the strength of your people
- Minimize resistance and harvest the best thinking of your people
- Identify key stakeholders and determine how best to involve them
- Learn a proven change management methodology through gamification
APPROACH
FOR DEVELOPING...
• A team that must generate new ideas quickly
• A leadership team planning change organization-wide
• A team that escalates problems they should resolve themselves
• Anyone who needs to move a group through brainstorming, trust-building, or change
METHOD
• Designed to meet your unique cultural challenges and goals
• Highly interactive and experiential, delivered in-person or virtually
• Frequent small-group breakouts for practice and feedback
• Powerful tools to manage mindset in relevant scenarios
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