Collaboration
What is it?
Collaboration is a skillset and a mindset.
Consider the difference if everyone in your organisation had the skills and tools to apply to any conflict, negotiation, and/or problem-solving situation. Consider the benefits if those skills and tools delivered win-win outcomes, leading to improved relationships across your business or organisation.
What difference does it make?
High performing businesses require rapid problem solving and conflict resolution mechanisms, plus sound negotiation platforms that deliver optimum results. Yet the time, energy and productivity lost to these issues is substantial in almost every organisation, from governance through to ground floor operations.
A negotiating process called the Interest-Based Approach builds relationships rather than undermining them. It focuses on the underlying interests of the parties before encouraging them to commit and work together towards a solution. Collaborative Innovations’ collaboration workshops provide practical skills that are immediately useful and sustainable.
How does it work?
Collaborative Innovations’ work is based on Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In, a best-selling book by Roger Fisher and William Ury; Radical Collaboration: five essential skills to overcome defensiveness and build successful relationships by James Tamm and Ronald Luyet; and the core negotiation programme at Harvard Law School.
Marie Richards-Hodge is an accredited trainer of Radical Collaboration™, a workshop created by the authors of Radical Collaboration: five essential skills to overcome defensiveness and build successful relationships.
Delivery options
Workshop or Coaching
Workshops are interactive and include many experiential activities. Outcomes include:
Enhanced negotiating and problem solving skills
The ability to prevent and resolve conflicts effectively
The ability to build strong relationships and teams
Understanding how to get the best out of yourself and others
Enhancing and promoting a collaborative culture
Workshops promote new ways to collaborate, resolve conflicts, negotiate, problem solve and build better relationships.
Tools available to support collaboration
Diagnostic Tool - Optional FIRO Business Profile
An optional inclusion in this programme is FIRO® B which is an online questionnaire. The FIRO® B tool measures behaviour. It examines the way people typically interact with others to help them explore their own interpersonal behaviour and style.
FIRO Business Profile measures the three key attributes required to understand and appreciate human behaviour: involvement, influence, and connection. People vary greatly in their preferences across these three dimensions. For individuals, teams and organisations, awareness of these preferences significantly enhances effectiveness in the workplace.