tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30345051970864181272024-03-15T14:26:45.435-07:00Achieving Collaborative Success Sharing good principles of collaborative working to help people solve complex problems.Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-66635070334497125642021-10-01T08:35:00.003-07:002021-10-02T14:00:39.530-07:00Here is a great resource for identifying, encouraging and developing collaborative relationships<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Ll9pZW-ZkSFoQM_r9SdEOkFaFn6wZWS-2kvq60fBN2WqTQ-wIz_uJoSPcWpydRk2tjvQv9mqBDW7A1zhxS0Ai-zm7SOmKT-QE5pjgFEu_2pJmU7PzjOyaLSWPrfaAMYbWVLqtg8oKZk/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Ll9pZW-ZkSFoQM_r9SdEOkFaFn6wZWS-2kvq60fBN2WqTQ-wIz_uJoSPcWpydRk2tjvQv9mqBDW7A1zhxS0Ai-zm7SOmKT-QE5pjgFEu_2pJmU7PzjOyaLSWPrfaAMYbWVLqtg8oKZk/s0/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Collaboration is, at its heart, all about developing effective relationships between people from diverse backgrounds, communities and organisations, etc.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The "Relationship Project" offers great resources that will help you achieve this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Click </span><a href="https://relationshipsproject.org/"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> to go to the project's website, where you will find resources that will help you do the following:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Map existing relationships and enhance their effectiveness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Identify and develop new and potentially valuable relationships.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Support and encourage the roles and behaviours that are essential for developing and sustaining effective relationships.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Learn from others' experiences of developing and sustaining effective relationships.</span> </li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As a supplement to the above, I have written about the specific characteristics of the relationships that are most likely to underpin successful collaborative working. You can find out about these by clicking </span><a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-secret-of-collaborative-success.html"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>here</b></span></a>. <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-8319025442013255052021-04-26T08:59:00.004-07:002021-06-18T09:51:01.996-07:00Five useful collaborative principles from cross-cultural collaboration in New Zealand <p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is a very useful article about cross-cultural collaboration in New Zealand:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1177083X.2007.9522423"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>“Koe wai hoki koe?!”, or “Who are you?!”: Issues of trust in cross‐cultural collaborative research (tandfonline.com)</b></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The article is useful for two reasons: firstly, the collaboration it describes (between two very different cultures with an often problematic history) accentuates not only the difficulties associated with challenging collaborations but also the principles that need to be applied to overcome these difficulties; secondly, the principles identified can, I believe, be applied within many collaborative contexts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For me, the principles that stand out as particularly important and widely applicable are as follows:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Thoughtfully and considerately using creative tools and approaches to encourage dialogue and participation. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Continuously seeking to build relationships with people from diverse backgrounds to gain access to and benefit from often uniquely valuable knowledge, experiences and perspectives.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Developing the open-mindedness and humility required to learn from others.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Giving up control: allowing yourself to be led by someone else, and stepping aside so someone can express their own way of knowing and use their own way of doing whilst working within their own culture and environment.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Working with and adapting to the shifting temporal sands of collaboration: realising that who has to have humility, who has to give up control, and who has to stand aside to allow others to work with and from within their own cultures will alter with the changing needs and contexts of evolving collaboration. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Read the article for examples of how the above principles can be applied.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Although some collaborations will not be so obviously challenging as the one described in the article, and many collaborations will possess different or subtly hidden challenges that are no less problematical, I believe that all collaborations that bring together partners from diverse backgrounds to address shared issues and problems will benefit significantly from discovering ways to apply the above principles. </span></p>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-78115507983516918982021-04-13T07:28:00.001-07:002021-04-13T07:40:33.444-07:00Collaboration can be looked at through many lenses, each lens revealing new insights <p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOF8dwCinvIaGz479va3e_DMsPJZiC21gdEREDBZ7_qo7xBa22Kzr4xyafqwKF4824sEKwR3vzKyWFEq3eMLmrVqIGA8w7Ao8zPDpyX4Xn_gmXo64ga3bI276FAd6aOxCMcepQhSlemQ/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOF8dwCinvIaGz479va3e_DMsPJZiC21gdEREDBZ7_qo7xBa22Kzr4xyafqwKF4824sEKwR3vzKyWFEq3eMLmrVqIGA8w7Ao8zPDpyX4Xn_gmXo64ga3bI276FAd6aOxCMcepQhSlemQ/w132-h132/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="132" /></a>A couple of lenses that I have looked at collaboration through are <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/03/interested-in-time-travel.html"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>time</b></span></a> and <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-secret-of-collaborative-success.html"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>relationships</b></span></a>. You can read about the insights revealed through these lenses by clicking on the previous links or by reading my book <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WixlUByZIdCWAuP4MaK5spBmbaHw584B/view"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Achieving Collaborative Success</b></span></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdK32rDBHxALiGXzHufnh0O8Emf4YNgjOpksMIlsuhE4HfKEHN3k3Mx-DVCnVkC7wRUahzfB4iohc2npBA12BYexNemymUTFbJtK4zg0KZSlEDlyL3ZmG7P2JdEHVyw6ZiC4CX-_ha30/s450/1516178169895.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdK32rDBHxALiGXzHufnh0O8Emf4YNgjOpksMIlsuhE4HfKEHN3k3Mx-DVCnVkC7wRUahzfB4iohc2npBA12BYexNemymUTFbJtK4zg0KZSlEDlyL3ZmG7P2JdEHVyw6ZiC4CX-_ha30/w131-h131/1516178169895.jpg" width="131" /></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Timo Järvensivu</b> looks at collaboration through the lens of networks and networking. Doing so reveals additional insights. Amongst these are the everchanging nature of networks (and consequently collaborations) and networks' need for flexible and creative management from the inside reaching out. To find out more about these and the other insights revealed, read Timo's book </span></span><a href="https://managingnetworks.net/" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Managing (in) Networks</span></b></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">. </span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-49933032701888374282021-02-21T07:58:00.003-08:002021-02-22T07:55:03.302-08:00Some practical approaches for encouraging and developing dialogue <p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is a link to some practical approaches for encouraging and developing effective dialogue between partners:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://managingnetworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Dialogue-from-Managing-in-Networks-Timo-J%C3%A4rvensivu-2020.pdf"><b>Dialogue: practical approaches for encouraging and developing it </b></a><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The link takes you to a free chapter from Timo Järvensivu's book <a href="https://managingnetworks.net/"><b>Managing (in) Networks: Learning, Working and Leading Together </b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As Timo's chapter makes clear, dialogue emphasises "listening to understand", which encourages people to travel to the centre of issues and discover uncomfortably challenging facts and previously unspoken assumptions. "Listening to understand" discourages conversations where people are tempted to debate around issues and seek conveniently supportive facts and clearly victorious arguments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When working in collaboration, the knowledge gained by engaging in dialogue rather than debate often leads to superior achievements. This is because dialogue encourages people to make a decision or take an action based upon realism and the confidence that they have considered all sides rather than upon idealism and the hope that they have backed the right side. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-60996030430533002762021-02-11T07:41:00.007-08:002021-02-11T08:19:41.284-08:00Enhance collaboration by mapping informal networks and balancing formality with informality <div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfEXHr2zETTe44BTTjYxg1oXRO8WrM2uahP8AXyI92VeIJwKUECGRDklZ3dTkodyZrab_mQtrRxwJ_fmnXRjWairFyZ2CM5TokM5bGzwHx0T9b0qfHTX9TM1p_B1VTBKCkna9SQCaDic/s960/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfEXHr2zETTe44BTTjYxg1oXRO8WrM2uahP8AXyI92VeIJwKUECGRDklZ3dTkodyZrab_mQtrRxwJ_fmnXRjWairFyZ2CM5TokM5bGzwHx0T9b0qfHTX9TM1p_B1VTBKCkna9SQCaDic/w200-h200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a> </div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is an article from the Harvard Business Review (by David Krackhardt and Jeffrey R. Hanson) that shows how mapping informal networks can improve an organisation's efficiency and effectiveness:<span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://hbr.org/1993/07/informal-networks-the-company-behind-the-chart" target="_blank">Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Collaborations between organisations will also benefit from this approach. By mapping informal advice, trust and communication networks, partners will uncover informal but significant relationship patterns that can then be analysed and leveraged to enhance day-to-day collaborative working.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mapping informal networks will help redress the widespread bias toward formality that is built into the culture and fabric of many collaborations, especially if done</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> alongside the approaches given </span><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-8589609294676756942020-08-07T09:08:00.000-07:002020-08-07T09:08:13.999-07:00Avoid the "Synecdoche Syndrome" like the plague<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do you see?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Smart collaborations create interest and energy and encourage participation by quickly identifying and addressing high profile problems and issues relevant to their aspirations and purpose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But these high profile areas (be they acute medical issues, pressing social problems, high impact crime, or the presence of homeless people on the streets) can quickly begin to represent the entirety of the problem, obscuring the surrounding complex web of people, needs and other associated issues that combine to create the whole picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A health and social partnership may well have successfully addressed the needs of those with severe and pressing mental and/or physical health and social problems, but what of those who are not so badly off? Have their needs been addressed or has the severe and demanding part obscured the less severe and less demanding part? Do those with milder problems now need to wait until they become the "part of the problem" that is recognised and addressed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is right and proper that a collaboration should focus upon those parts of a problem that are most pressing. Arguably, it is even right and proper that a collaboration should focus upon high profile areas that will garner support and resources. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If, however, the "Synecdoche Syndrome" infects a collaboration's thinking, if the part comes to represent the whole in people's minds and blanks out the bigger picture of current and future problems (and potential solutions) that would be otherwise revealed, a collaboration will have contracted a chronic condition that slowly eats away resources and diminishes effectiveness. Eventually, the needs of the many will grow and gradually inflame, overwhelm and weaken the discrete and specific priority areas a collaboration had previously dealt with so well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A collaboration needs to look beyond the pressing, high profile issues that strongly demand attention and so easily attract support. It needs to future-proof its aspirations, purpose and activities by engaging with the whole of its environment: the whole of which it is only a part. It needs to acknowledge and analyse people's wider concerns, problems and issues and assimilate the insights, ideas (and potential solutions) consequently gained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A collaboration must never mistake the part for the whole; it must avoid the Synecdoche Syndrome like the plague.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-79104992679212431312020-07-24T10:05:00.000-07:002020-07-24T10:21:55.453-07:00Towards a community paradigm: four principles of collaboration that can help us get there <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb69sYrr8Zzlj3Q-GZamRLb3JLXfJIirnlSiQ5PYmZMsCzlrOYmaNhtzFZSL6Gc5a6K6Rhe03pYvwl3Asc2c8JUKE8etna3sd3kFL9ETwtZbKhW9Z3h6RgWM2Odcchn-C4t2kGfCwK3E/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb69sYrr8Zzlj3Q-GZamRLb3JLXfJIirnlSiQ5PYmZMsCzlrOYmaNhtzFZSL6Gc5a6K6Rhe03pYvwl3Asc2c8JUKE8etna3sd3kFL9ETwtZbKhW9Z3h6RgWM2Odcchn-C4t2kGfCwK3E/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This paper, by <b><a href="http://www.nlgn.org.uk/public/staff/adam-lent/">Adam Lent</a> </b>and <a href="http://www.nlgn.org.uk/public/staff/jessica-studdert/"><b>Jessica Studdert</b></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the New Local Government Network, describes a new way of meeting the diverse needs of local communities: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And collaborative working itself requires a wholesale shift in our usual assumptions about how things get done; indeed, it often requires that we think and act counter to these assumptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And thinking and acting counter to our usual assumptions about how things get done gradually reveals four principles that we need to keep in mind whilst collaborating with others: the more we keep the more we waste; the more others take the more we gain (and the less the cost the more the value); the more we control the less we control; and the more we collaborate the more we come into conflict.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following blog post explores these four principles and describes how we can use them to navigate the complex world of collaboration and travel towards a new community empowered approach to public services.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2014/08/surviving-and-thriving-within-weird.html">https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2014/08/surviving-and-thriving-within-weird.html</a></span></b>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-36550322769330111982020-05-13T09:16:00.002-07:002020-07-31T10:01:01.901-07:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>A collaboration will display and use symbols that are human in scale and focus, and the most powerful of these symbols will be multi-dimensional and interactive:</strong><strong> they will be symbols that people can</strong><strong> see, hear, feel, touch and use; they will be symbols with which people can interact</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The most common and obvious symbols will be pictures that convey implicit or explicit messages about collaboration. These pictures will usually show a group of people involved in a joint task and be often accompanied by a strap line or slogan emphasising the value of collaboration. A little less</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> commonly used, but still obvious in its message, will be a "pregnant symbol" denoting nurture and growth (and implying, of course, the close cooperation needed to achieve them).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Job titles will be not only functional, indicating a person's role and responsibilities, but also symbolic; job titles that include words such as "partner", "mediator", "facilitator", "broker", etc., will symbolise the collaborative nature of people's day-to-day work. It is likely, however, that official job titles will be rarely heard during day-to-day interactions within a collaboration. Commonly, collaborators will emphasise their informal approach to relationships by being on first name terms with each other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Also, people's positions within a collaboration (the titles and roles and responsibilities people take or are given) will be deeply symbolic. Prominent positions for specific people and groups, the precise natures of these positions being dependent upon a collaboration's purpose and focus, will deliver powerful messages about inclusion, engagement and overall collaborative intent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Women, business people, entrepreneurs, academics from various disciplines, local politicians, representatives of religious and community groups, people with lived experience of the problems a collaboration is endeavouring to address: all of these people, given the correct context and carefully and intentionally positioned within a collaboration, have the potential to become unambiguous symbols of a preferred way of dealing with people and doing things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above symbolic positioning of people within a collaboration is an example of a multi-dimensional interactive symbol: the people in these positions will be not only seen but also heard, and they will be people with whom others can interact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Because these multi-dimensional interactive symbols impact people through multiple senses and in multiple ways, they are very powerful. Within a collaboration, they can be numerous and diverse. Here <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">are five examples of where they can be found:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The language with which a collaboration communicates.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Mutually agreed ways of describing key terms, concepts and processes, etc., will be consistently and routinely used. More generally, a collaboration's language (both spoken and written) will be accessible and engaging to internal partners and external stakeholders and other beneficiaries alike. This co-created and inclusive language, which will continue to evolve as various partners come and go and existing partners develop their relationships, will become a multi-dimensional interactive symbol of collaborative culture that gradually embeds itself within the minds of partners and proceeds to influence perceptions and actions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><strong>The location, layout and style of accommodation a collaboration occupies.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Where feasible, accommodation will co-locate key partners. It may also be embedded within a key partner's or stakeholder's community or locality. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The layout of the accommodation will be open plan and ergonomically sophisticated: there will be informal "mingle areas", personal privacy and "thinking time" areas, and (of course) collaboration areas. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> In addition, the accommodation's layout will explicitly respect professional and disciplinary space by ensuring each partner's working area is designed to meet the demands of his or her discipline (e.g., by providing additional and appropriate space for partners' specialist equipment, etc., or by providing space where partners can safely store and discuss information that they are required to treat as confidential). </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The symbolic messages associated with the above aspects of accommodation will gradually embed themselves in not only minds but also muscle memory, positively influencing partners' day-to-day collaborative activities. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The style and approach of meetings and events</strong> <strong>a collaboration attends and to which it invites others.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Meetings and events will exhibit the following characteristics:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">There will be time set-aside for informal interaction.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Openness and transparency will be the default position for all meetings and events. When confidentiality is required, the reasons for it will be made clear. Overall, confidentiality will be the exception that proves the collaborative rule.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Inclusivity will be favoured rather than exclusivity. Where exclusivity is needed (e.g., where a small group of key partners needs to be created to expedite decision making), its process of creation will be open, transparent and jointly agreed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Engagement and interaction will be encouraged through the use of creative and participative techniques and approaches (e.g., <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-american-doughnut-can-help-your.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">Doughnut thinking</span></strong></a>, <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-encourage-flock-thinking-as.html"><span style="color: #261fad;"><strong>Two Circle Thinking</strong>, <strong>Six Hat Thinking</strong></span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">Open Space Technology</span></strong></a>). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">The style and manner of the chairperson of a meeting or the leader of an event will model and encourage the above characteristics and, therefore, be deeply symbolic of collaborative culture. He or she will, through his or her personal behaviour and approach, encourage openness and demonstrate transparency of decision making and action: he or she will clearly explain the reasons for decisions and actions, and why confidentiality may occasionally be necessary (and the areas and issues it will affect and in what way). The majority of a chairperson's or event leader's role will focus upon encouraging involvement and dialogue, mediating disputes and conflicts, and brokering relationships and agreements (including informal and formal trades). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The above characteristics will become multi-dimensional interactive symbols of collaboration that positively influence partners' interactions at significant moments: points in time when key relationships are formed, crucial decisions are made and important actions implemented. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Internally generated and co-created rules for working together and achieving things: rules that </strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>delineate the "collaborative way".</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">These rules will focus upon how resources should be shared, how people should treat each other, how results should be achieved, and how people who break the rules should be reprimanded or punished. It will not be unusual for some of these rules to be unwritten and informal and policed through social interaction and personal relationships. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Rules will be simple and few rather than complex and many, focusing upon key aspects of a collaboration's activities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above rules will act as multi-dimensional interactive symbols that strongly influence partners to not only "do the right collaborative thing" themselves but also ensure others do likewise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Commonly owned and co-created resources, which become significant artefacts of the collaborative culture.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";">As collaborators work together, they will co-create new resources (e.g., analytical techniques, specialist equipment, new knowledge and theories, etc.) to improve effectiveness and help achieve outcomes. These resources will, reasonably quickly, become multi-dimensional interactive symbols of collaboration. Their daily use and management (the latter being about ensuring not only continued maintenance and updating but also continued common ownership and accessibility) will emphasise that they, and other things produced collaboratively, are precious in three ways: firstly, because they help a collaboration achieve its purpose; secondly, because they are of significant and often equal value to the people who worked together to produce them; and thirdly (and most importantly), because they provide powerful and motivational evidence of the synergies made possible through collaboration.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">To read about the other characteristics of an effective collaborative culture, click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-6029075470004932992020-05-07T09:25:00.018-07:002021-01-08T07:41:58.736-08:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A collaboration's assurance systems will focus upon the quality of partners' relationships, the level and quality of partners' contributions, the quality and effectiveness of current and emerging collaborative processes and structures, and the amount and effectiveness of partners' novel thinking and innovation. </b></span><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span>Assurance systems will seek to ensure that relationships between partners are diverse and inclusive in terms of not only knowledge, skills, expertise and qualities but also genders, sectors, communities and cultures, etc. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span>The amount and quality of face-to-face interaction will be monitored and its value and effectiveness evaluated. Of particular interest will be the balance between formal and informal face-to-face interaction. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In fact, the quality of all personal communications (face-to-face,
telephone or written) will be carefully assessed to
ensure they result in appropriate and timely action rather
than inappropriate and untimely action. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The quality of the communications
and relationships with those external to a collaboration will be given
significant attention. In particular, care will be taken to evaluate
the influence a collaboration has on key external people,
organisations and stakeholders, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Partners’ contributions towards common and
co-created resources will be noted, acknowledged and rewarded, as will non-monetary
or “in-kind” contributions (e.g., knowledge, expertise, services, equipment,
accommodation, etc.) that partners are willing and able to offer. Indeed, all
contributions that help a collaboration achieve its purpose will be noted,
acknowledged and rewarded, however fleeting and informal they may be; the
welcoming attitude of a partner organisation's staff member, a timely
expression of support, or the offering of a seemingly trivial
resource will always be noted and appreciated, if only with a short and duly
recorded few words of thanks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">All collaborative processes
(especially those designed to engage, involve and encourage dialogue) will
be constantly monitored and evaluated. Three aspects will be
given particular attention: the interactions, transactions and other
actions within a process that are crucial to its success (i.e., its
"moments of truth"); the processes emerging from within a
collaboration; and the internally generated rules and ways of working
that support these emerging processes. <br />
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In addition, the efficiency and effectiveness of the structures that emerge
from within and/or develop around a collaboration will be
constantly assessed. <br />
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Innovation will be recognised and rewarded and its effectiveness evaluated.
Specific behaviours (such as pioneering, risk-taking, and identifying
and exploiting unexpected or chance opportunities) will be searched for
and rewarded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>A collaboration's <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-characteristics-of-effective.html"><strong>previously mentioned focus upon capturing and sharing rich and diverse stories</strong></a> about people, key relationships and associated significant happenings will, by highlighting and acknowledging lessons learned from experience and past successes, help assure continuing and improving effectiveness in all the above areas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;">To read about the other characteristics of an effective collaborative culture, click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-4892531551247678132020-05-04T08:43:00.001-07:002020-05-04T08:45:02.246-07:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>A collaboration's organisational structure will be flexible and constantly evolving rather than inflexible and pre-designed, and it will consist of small and simple components that emphasise individual people</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Organisational structures will constantly evolve from within the wider network of partners. The components of these structures, like individual bits and pieces of Lego, will be small and simple; they will, as the <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-characteristics-of-effective_9.html"><strong>previously mentioned platform of key partners</strong></a> demonstrates, consist of small numbers of people and have very clearly defined functions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Having a small number of people within each component (be this a dedicated team, committee or task force, etc.) will help develop effective personal relationships, and the clearly defined function of each component will help ensure not only effective communication and timely action but also smooth co-ordination and, where necessary, rapid integration of components (much as individual bits and pieces of Lego will readily interlock to create new shapes and structures). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Additionally (and superior to the abilities of Lego), placing a small number of individuals within each component of a collaboration's organisational structure will help external people and organisations put a name to (and become familiar with) a face. This will facilitate effective communication and co-ordination with external people and organisations and, over the medium to long-term, help forge new relationships and alliances; individual people (their names, faces and actions) will become proactive elements contributing to the evolution of a collaboration's organisational structure rather than passive elements impeding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">To read about the other characteristics of an effective collaborative culture, click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-85917949397010084282020-04-20T05:29:00.000-07:002020-08-03T07:50:30.819-07:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>A collaboration's rituals and routines will emphasise sharing with people, including and involving people, celebrating and rewarding people's contributions, championing a collaboration and its work, and interacting with people informally and face-to-face</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Recording and sharing the <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-characteristics-of-effective.html"><strong>previously mentioned types of stories</strong></a>; appointing champions who promote and support a collaboration's work; celebrating not only success but also the people who contributed to it: these things will be regular high profile rituals that take place within a collaboration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most meetings and all high-profile conferences and events will set aside time and space for ritually celebrating diversity and inclusion. These ritual celebrations will be low church rather than high church: they will encourage participation and informality and the joyful expression of a shared belief in the power of including and involving the many rather than the few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Day-to-day, collaborators will habitually use first names when introducing and addressing each other, eagerly meet face-to-face in the informal margins within and between formal meetings and events, happily give the benefit of the doubt, quickly offer a helping hand, and openly share and explore each other's ideas and mistakes (as well as each other's feelings, enthusiasms, intuitions and intentions). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">In addition, collaborators will regularly and enthusiastically reach out and across to potential partners and other contributors who may be able to offer new insights, ideas and resources, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">To read about the other characteristics of an effective collaborative culture, click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-43691274803459281882020-04-09T11:26:00.002-07:002021-01-06T08:15:55.395-08:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.2 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>A collaboration's power will be distributed amongst the wider network of partners, and a collaboration's sources of power will be diverse </strong></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Power will be imbued in the network of partners; this network will be empowered and able to get things done and solve problems, and leaders will develop within and emerge from it. This process will encourage web networked rather than star networked power to develop: power and the ability to get things done will be spread throughout the majority of individuals and organisations in the network rather than focused upon one or two star players who pull the strings or to whom all network paths lead.<br /><br /> This webbed network of partners will pulse with diverse sources of power that can be tapped into as required. Partners possessing the power to broker, bridge divides and make trades; partners possessing the power of essential expertise, experience and skills (and the credibility to make others appreciate these things); partners possessing the power of the pioneering spirit (the risk takers, the creative and innovative); partners possessing feminine power (the empathetic, the intuitive and emotionally literate): all these people (and many others with differing sources of power) can step forward to take the lead and express their unique powers as and when beneficial to the collaboration.<br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";">Having said all this, the above webbed network of diversely powerful partners is eventually likely to coalesce around a hub or platform of key partners who can guide and lead the collaboration and provide the required stability and resources, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This process of coalescing, however, will strengthen rather than weaken the networked, diverse and emergent nature of collaborative power. This will happen because the collaborative network will push partners towards the platform and, where and when necessary, pull them away from it; the ebb and flow of the network sea will cast partners as leaders upon the platform and sweep them off as necessity dictates. The platform will become a dynamic and powerful manifestation of the power of the collaborative network.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">To read about the other characteristics of an effective collaborative culture, click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-54600862174833230702020-04-06T12:44:00.002-07:002021-02-09T11:46:30.475-08:00The characteristics of an effective collaborative culture: No.1<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUMXxPKalqRVroQv9L_JLFV5sp69P8l6xNBojqXAlFHS8loVxxhihgrpG_mRA1wKkcN7xEgaSzLKU1J_2wry4eIdp-HxVZ-heXlOJn5_KqcNjN3jkfwi5Gk22yzTh4dciibDJmW_UUH0/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUMXxPKalqRVroQv9L_JLFV5sp69P8l6xNBojqXAlFHS8loVxxhihgrpG_mRA1wKkcN7xEgaSzLKU1J_2wry4eIdp-HxVZ-heXlOJn5_KqcNjN3jkfwi5Gk22yzTh4dciibDJmW_UUH0/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Collaborators will capture and share many rich and diverse stories about people, key relationships and associated significant happenings</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The following stories will be amongst those captured and shared:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Stories about the unexpected: the chance encounter that led to an important relationship; the unexpected contribution that proved immensely valuable; the outsider who surprisingly emerged to take the lead. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Stories about taking risks and being speculative: the people who were brave enough to break taboos to form new relationships; the innovators who were willing to take leaps of faith to find new solutions. </span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">S<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">tories about key turning points: the point at which partners began to trust each other and work together effectively; the moment of truth that acted as a catalyst for collaborative progress and success.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">There will also be precautionary tales: tales about selfish partners who took and exploited; tales about villainous partners who bullied or sabotaged; tales about misunderstandings and conflicts caused by geographical or temporal separation; tales of secret discussions and deals done behind partners' backs; tales about assumption, prejudice, exclusion and eventual rebellion; tales about collaborations fading away.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-12825034614197852882020-03-30T14:09:00.003-07:002021-01-08T07:57:51.115-08:00How to develop collaborative meta-relationships 6<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnde3Dz7mVDiCwVEXknT-d90aCb3jSmBXX22d7exDP_26aGvr2fitLCKr_8s5dPvreu1GAD6EM7iZ8vwRftUK8Fyc_zcTBB0OB_JaWL10U6ug-mNBwCr01ofMDHH6Ntk3QrfkXi3Kr5a8/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnde3Dz7mVDiCwVEXknT-d90aCb3jSmBXX22d7exDP_26aGvr2fitLCKr_8s5dPvreu1GAD6EM7iZ8vwRftUK8Fyc_zcTBB0OB_JaWL10U6ug-mNBwCr01ofMDHH6Ntk3QrfkXi3Kr5a8/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I have described meta-relationships and why they are essential to effective collaborative working in a </span><a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-secret-of-collaborative-success.html"><strong><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #261fad;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">previous post</span></span></strong></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span><br />
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Balancing formality with informality</span></li>
<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Focusing on people and relationships</span></li>
<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Focusing upon and managing emerging collaborative processes</span></li>
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><strong>Creating a virtuous loop between the development of </strong><strong>an effective collaborative culture and </strong><strong>the development of meta-relationships </strong></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Creating a virtuous loop between the development of </strong><strong>an effective collaborative culture and </strong><strong>the development of meta-relationships </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">An effective collaborative culture will emerge from a fabric of interpersonal interactions that is rich in meta-relationships. This type of culture will have the following six characteristics:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>1. Collaborators will capture and share many rich and diverse stories about people, key relationships and associated significant happenings</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The above is not surprising given the emphasis meta-relationships place upon sharing and face-to-face communication.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The following stories will be amongst those captured and shared:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Stories about the unexpected: the chance encounter that led to an important relationship; the unexpected contribution that proved immensely valuable; the outsider who surprisingly emerged to take the lead. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Stories about taking risks and being speculative: the people who were brave enough to break taboos to form new relationships; the innovators who were willing to take leaps of faith to find new solutions. </span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">S<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">tories about key turning points: the point at which partners began to trust each other and work together effectively; the moment of truth that acted as a catalyst for collaborative progress and success.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">There will also be precautionary tales: tales about selfish partners who took and exploited; tales about villainous partners who bullied or sabotaged; tales about misunderstandings and conflicts caused by geographical or temporal separation; tales of secret discussions and deals done behind partners' backs; tales about assumption, prejudice, exclusion and eventual rebellion; tales about collaborations fading away. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>2. A collaboration will display and use symbols that are human in scale and focus, and the most powerful of these symbols will be multi-dimensional and interactive:</strong><strong> they will be symbols that people can</strong><strong> see, hear, feel, touch and use; they will be symbols with which people can interact</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The most common and obvious symbols will be pictures that convey implicit or explicit messages about collaboration. These pictures will usually show a group of people involved in a joint task and be often accompanied by a strap line or slogan emphasising the value of collaboration. A little less</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> commonly used, but still obvious in its message, will be a "pregnant symbol" denoting nurture and growth (and implying, of course, the close cooperation needed to achieve them).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Job titles will be not only functional, indicating a person's role and responsibilities, but also symbolic; job titles that include words such as "partner", "mediator", "facilitator", "broker", etc., will symbolise the collaborative nature of people's day-to-day work. It is likely, however, that official job titles will be rarely heard during day-to-day interactions within a collaboration. Commonly, collaborators will emphasise their informal approach to relationships by being on first name terms with each other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Also, people's positions within a collaboration (the titles and roles and responsibilities people take or are given) will be deeply symbolic. Prominent positions for specific people and groups, the precise natures of these positions being dependent upon a collaboration's purpose and focus, will deliver powerful messages about inclusion, engagement and overall collaborative intent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Women, business people, entrepreneurs, academics from various disciplines, local politicians, representatives of religious and community groups, people with lived experience of the problems a collaboration is endeavouring to address: all of these people, given the correct context and carefully and intentionally positioned within a collaboration, have the potential to become unambiguous symbols of a preferred way of dealing with people and doing things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above symbolic positioning of people within a collaboration is an example of a multi-dimensional interactive symbol: the people in these positions will be not only seen but also heard, and they will be people with whom others can interact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Because these multi-dimensional interactive symbols impact people through multiple senses and in multiple ways, they are very powerful. Within a collaboration, they can be numerous and diverse. Here <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">are five examples of where they can be found:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The language with which a collaboration communicates.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Mutually agreed ways of describing key terms, concepts and processes, etc., will be consistently and routinely used. More generally, a collaboration's language (both spoken and written) will be accessible and engaging to internal partners and external stakeholders and other beneficiaries alike. This co-created and inclusive language, which will continue to evolve as various partners come and go and existing partners develop their relationships, will become a multi-dimensional interactive symbol of collaborative culture that gradually embeds itself within the minds of partners and proceeds to influence perceptions and actions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><strong>The location, layout and style of accommodation a collaboration occupies.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Where feasible, accommodation will co-locate key partners. It may also be embedded within a key partner's or stakeholder's community or locality. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The layout of the accommodation will be open plan and ergonomically sophisticated: there will be informal "mingle areas", personal privacy and "thinking time" areas, and (of course) collaboration areas. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">In addition, the accommodation's layout will explicitly respect professional and disciplinary space by ensuring each partner's working area is designed to meet the demands of his or her discipline (e.g., by providing additional and appropriate space for partners' specialist equipment, etc., or by providing space where partners can safely store and discuss information that they are required to treat as confidential). </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The symbolic messages associated with the above aspects of accommodation will gradually embed themselves in not only minds but also muscle memory, positively influencing partners' day-to-day collaborative activities. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The style and approach of meetings and events</strong> <strong>a collaboration attends and to which it invites others.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Meetings and events will exhibit the following characteristics:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">There will be time set-aside for informal interaction.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Openness and transparency will be the default position for all meetings and events. When confidentiality is required, the reasons for it will be made clear. Overall, confidentiality will be the exception that proves the collaborative rule.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Inclusivity will be favoured rather than exclusivity. Where exclusivity is needed (e.g., where a small group of key partners needs to be created to expedite decision making), its process of creation will be open, transparent and jointly agreed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Engagement and interaction will be encouraged through the use of creative and participative techniques and approaches (e.g., <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-american-doughnut-can-help-your.html"><strong>Doughnut thinking</strong></a>, <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-encourage-flock-thinking-as.html"><strong>Two Circle Thinking</strong>, <strong>Six Hat Thinking</strong></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology"><strong>Open Space Technology</strong></a>). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">The style and manner of the chairperson of a meeting or the leader of an event will model and encourage the above characteristics and, therefore, be deeply symbolic of collaborative culture. He or she will, through his or her personal behaviour and approach, encourage openness and demonstrate transparency of decision making and action: he or she will clearly explain the reasons for decisions and actions, and why confidentiality may occasionally be necessary (and the areas and issues it will affect and in what way). The majority of a chairperson's or event leader's role will focus upon encouraging involvement and dialogue, mediating disputes and conflicts, and brokering relationships and agreements (including informal and formal trades). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The above characteristics will become multi-dimensional interactive symbols of collaboration that positively influence partners' interactions at significant moments: points in time when key relationships are formed, crucial decisions are made and important actions implemented. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Internally generated and co-created rules for working together and achieving things: rules that </strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>delineate the "collaborative way".</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">These rules will focus upon how resources should be shared, how people should treat each other, how results should be achieved, and how people who break the rules should be reprimanded and punished. It will not be unusual for some of these rules to be unwritten and informal and policed through social interaction and personal relationships. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Rules will be simple and few rather than complex and many, focusing upon key aspects of a collaboration's activities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above rules will act as multi-dimensional interactive symbols that strongly influence partners to not only "do the right collaborative thing" themselves but also ensure others do likewise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Commonly owned and co-created resources, which become significant artefacts of the collaborative culture.</strong> <span style="font-family: "arial";">As collaborators work together, they will co-create new resources (e.g., analytical techniques, specialist equipment, new knowledge and theories, etc.) to improve effectiveness and help achieve outcomes. These resources will, reasonably quickly, become multi-dimensional interactive symbols of collaboration. Their daily use and management (the latter being about ensuring not only continued maintenance and updating but also continued common ownership and accessibility) will emphasise that they, and other things produced collaboratively, are precious in three ways: firstly, because they help a collaboration achieve its purpose; secondly, because they are of significant and often equal value to the people who worked together to produce them; and thirdly (and most importantly), because they provide powerful and motivational evidence of the synergies made possible through collaboration. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>3. A collaboration's power will be distributed amongst the wider network of partners, and a collaboration's sources of power will be diverse </strong></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Power will be imbued in the network of partners; this network will be empowered and able to get things done and solve problems, and leaders will develop within and emerge from it. This process will encourage web networked rather than star networked power to develop: power and the ability to get things done will be spread throughout the majority of individuals and organisations in the network rather than focused upon one or two star players who pull the strings or to whom all network paths lead.<br />
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This webbed network of partners will pulse with diverse sources of power that can be tapped into as required. Partners possessing the power to broker, bridge divides and make trades; partners possessing the power of essential expertise, experience and skills (and the credibility to make others appreciate these things); partners possessing the power of the pioneering spirit (the risk takers, the creative and innovative); partners possessing feminine power (the empathetic, the intuitive and emotionally literate): all these people (and many others with differing sources of power) can step forward to take the lead and express their unique powers as and when beneficial to the collaboration.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Having said all this, the above webbed network of diversely powerful partners is eventually likely to coalesce around a hub or platform of key partners who can guide and lead the collaboration and provide the required stability and resources, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This process of coalescing, however, will strengthen rather than weaken the networked, diverse and emergent nature of collaborative power. This will happen because the collaborative network will push partners towards the platform and, where and when necessary, pull them away from it; the ebb and flow of the network sea will cast partners as leaders upon the platform and sweep them off as necessity dictates. The platform will become a dynamic and powerful manifestation of the power of the collaborative network. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>4. A collaboration's organisational structure will be flexible and constantly evolving rather than inflexible and pre-designed, and it will consist of small and simple components that emphasise individual people</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Organisational structures will constantly evolve from within the wider network of partners. The components of these structures, like individual bits and pieces of Lego, will be small and simple; they will, as the above mentioned platform of key partners demonstrates, consist of small numbers of people and have very clearly defined functions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Having a small number of people within each component (be this a dedicated team, committee or task force, etc.) will help develop effective personal relationships, and the clearly defined function of each component will help ensure not only effective communication and timely action but also smooth co-ordination and, where necessary, rapid integration of components (much as individual bits and pieces of Lego will readily interlock to create new shapes and structures). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Additionally (and superior to the abilities of Lego), placing a small number of individuals within each component of a collaboration's organisational structure will help external people and organisations put a name to (and become familiar with) a face. This will facilitate effective communication and co-ordination with external people and organisations and, over the medium to long-term, help forge new relationships and alliances; individual people (their names, faces and actions) will become proactive elements contributing to the evolution of a collaboration's organisational structure rather than passive elements impeding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>5. A collaboration's assurance systems will focus upon the quality of partners' relationships, the level and quality of partners' contributions, the quality and effectiveness of current and emerging collaborative processes and structures, and the amount and effectiveness of partners' novel thinking and innovation </strong> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Assurance systems will seek to ensure that relationships between partners are diverse and inclusive in terms of not only knowledge, skills, expertise and qualities but also genders, sectors, communities and cultures, etc. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The amount and quality of face-to-face interaction will be monitored and its value and effectiveness evaluated. Of particular interest will be the balance between formal and informal face-to-face interaction. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.18px;">In fact, the quality of all personal communications (face-to-face, telephone or written) will be carefully assessed to ensure they result in appropriate and timely action rather than inappropriate and untimely action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.18px;">The quality of the communications and relationships with those external to a collaboration will be given significant attention. In particular, care will be taken to evaluate the influence a collaboration has on key external people, organisations and stakeholders, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.18px;">Partners’ contributions towards common and co-created resources will be noted, acknowledged and rewarded, as will non-monetary or “in-kind” contributions (e.g., knowledge, expertise, services, equipment, accommodation, etc.) that partners are willing and able to offer. Indeed, all contributions that help a collaboration achieve its purpose will be noted, acknowledged and rewarded, however fleeting and informal they may be; the welcoming attitude of a partner organisation's staff member, a timely expression of support, or the offering of a seemingly trivial resource will always be noted and appreciated, if only with a short and duly recorded few words of thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.18px;">All collaborative processes (especially those designed to engage, involve and encourage dialogue) will be constantly monitored and evaluated. Three aspects will be given particular attention: the interactions, transactions and other actions within a process that are crucial to its success (i.e., its "moments of truth"); the processes emerging from within a collaboration; and the internally generated rules and ways of working that support these emerging processes.<br /><br />In addition, the efficiency and effectiveness of the structures that emerge from within and/or develop around a collaboration will be constantly assessed. <br /> <br />Innovation will be recognised and rewarded and its effectiveness evaluated. Specific behaviours (such as pioneering, risk-taking, and identifying and exploiting unexpected or chance opportunities) will be searched for and rewarded.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">A collaboration's previously mentioned focus upon capturing and sharing rich and diverse stories about people, key relationships and associated significant happenings will, by highlighting and acknowledging lessons learned from experience and past successes, help assure continuing and improving effectiveness in all the above areas. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>6. A collaboration's rituals and routines will emphasise sharing with people, including and involving people, celebrating and rewarding people's contributions, championing a collaboration and its work, and interacting with people informally and face-to-face</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Recording and sharing the previously mentioned types of stories; appointing champions who promote and support a collaboration's work; celebrating not only success but also the people who contributed to it: these things will be regular high profile rituals that take place within a collaboration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most meetings and all high-profile conferences and events will set aside time and space for ritually celebrating diversity and inclusion. These ritual celebrations will be low church rather than high church: they will encourage participation and informality and the joyful expression of a shared belief in the power of including and involving the many rather than the few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Day-to-day, collaborators will habitually use first names when introducing and addressing each other, eagerly meet face-to-face in the informal margins within and between formal meetings and events, happily give the benefit of the doubt, quickly offer a helping hand, and openly share and explore each other's ideas and mistakes (as well as each other's feelings, enthusiasms, intuitions and intentions). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">In addition, collaborators will regularly and enthusiastically reach out and across to potential partners and other contributors who may be able to offer new insights, ideas and resources, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>The world view that underpins the cultural characteristics</strong></span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The world view that underpins and reinforces the above cultural characteristics is based upon the belief that effective collaborative working is only possible when supported by good quality personal relationships (i.e., personal relationships that are diverse, trusting, honest, respectful and beneficial). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Creating a virtuous loop between the above culture and meta-relationships</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The clear emergence of the above cultural characteristics will strongly indicate that meta-relationships have been developed. It will also help them continue to develop, so creating a virtuous loop between the emergence of the above culture and the ongoing development of meta-relationships: the one will help create and reinforce the other.<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">If the above cultural characteristics are non-emergent or weak, a collaboration will need to create the collaborative environment that enables them to emerge and gain strength. This environment can only be created by meta-relationships, so a collaboration must take action to develop them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are six key actions to do first. Once these have been done, and strongly followed-up with the other previously described <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta.html"><strong>actions that encourage the development of meta-relationships</strong></a>, a collaborative environment will be created within which the above cultural characteristics can grow and strengthen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The key actions, each of which is associated with one of the cultural characteristics described above, are as follows:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/12/secrets-of-successful-collaboration-38.html"><strong>Encourage people to paint a rich picture of what they are thinking and feeling</strong></a><strong>.</strong> Ask them to share experiences in addition to expertise, and feelings and opinions in addition to facts and data. This will help form the habit of story telling that underpins the cultural characteristic of collecting and sharing many rich and diverse stories about people, key relationships and associated significant happenings.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/12/secrets-of-successful-collaboration-40_11.html"><strong>Encourage people to use others' words when communicating</strong></a><strong>.</strong> This is the first step towards creating a co-created and inclusive language that will become a human focused multi-dimensional interactive symbol of collaboration (a symbol which people can see, hear, feel, touch and use). This symbolic language will encourage and enable similar symbols to be created.<br />
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<a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/12/secrets-of-successful-collaboration-33.html"><strong>Encourage people to be champions</strong></a><strong>.</strong> This encourages people to take and express their power, and it is a first step towards creating diverse sources of power and distributing power amongst the wider network of partners.<br />
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<a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/03/secrets-of-successful-collaboration15.html"><strong>Focus on pairs and keep teams small</strong></a>. This ensures that a focus is maintained upon individuals and their personal interactions and relationships and that, as a collaboration grows in size and complexity, existing significant and important personal relationships are easily identified and safeguarded and new ones of potential value are encouraged. This enables an increasingly complex and growing collaborative structure to not only maintain but also widen the network of personal understandings and relationships that are essential to ongoing success.<br />
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<a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/12/secrets-of-successful-collaboration-44.html"><strong>Be curious about and enjoy the journey</strong></a>. This will begin to embed an assurance mindset within people's minds. Focusing upon the unexpected, the apparent mistake or wrong turn, what has worked, what has not worked, memorable events and moments of truth, what each person has learnt about the other and about collaboration in general: doing all these things will focus minds upon what needs to be assured and controlled through monitoring, evaluating, acknowledging and rewarding.<br />
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<a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/12/secrets-of-successful-collaboration-11.html"><strong>Do not equate growing informality with diminishing respect and loss of credibility</strong></a><strong>.</strong> Encouraging informality between people and dismantling traditional and organisational barriers of formality will begin to create a social environment that encourages and supports daily rituals and routines that welcome participation, the expression of feelings, and the joyful and enthusiastic celebration of shared values and achievements.<br />
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To read the first and subsequent posts in this series click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-secret-of-collaborative-success.html"><strong>here</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<em>"<span class="ember-view" id="ember4029">Beautiful article that you've authored </span></em><a class="feed-link feed-shared-main-content__mention ember-view" data-control-name="mention" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAFlceEBGK408dCXlHrg5MJ-oX55XdKEnOY/" id="ember4032" role="link" tabindex="0"><span data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAFlceEBGK408dCXlHrg5MJ-oX55XdKEnOY"><em>Charles M Lines</em></span></a><span class="ember-view" id="ember4034"><em>. Thank you."</em></span></div>
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"I think it was Marcel Proust who said, 'The greatest journey in the world is not to see 100 countries through one pair of eyes, but rather one country through 100 pairs of eyes'. <br />
Good article Charles. We need lots of diversity and collaboration if we stand any chance of glimpsing the bigger picture."</div>
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Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-85381051800704653532019-12-24T11:47:00.000-08:002019-12-27T09:09:13.149-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 48. plant seed ideas in different places and nudge along other people's seed ideas <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtH7vtG5hMV8_smvzwDtgoWJ-2EelYDbVCyYbO6FzZhrVtP2wtuhduggqhoaNDTij2PP952TL-Z8_tRY_ZNrW8NBlJf7LBb3ElhSMOcuR3i0IH1vpyZ-B0ElZkcww9oypKheaBWkv6ym8/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtH7vtG5hMV8_smvzwDtgoWJ-2EelYDbVCyYbO6FzZhrVtP2wtuhduggqhoaNDTij2PP952TL-Z8_tRY_ZNrW8NBlJf7LBb3ElhSMOcuR3i0IH1vpyZ-B0ElZkcww9oypKheaBWkv6ym8/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plant seed ideas (suggestions about what to find out about, who to talk to and work with, and what to do, etc.) and encourage their nurture and development. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plant seed ideas in different places and within different people. Encourage discussion of seed ideas by seeking feedback about them. Where a seed idea is taking root, encourage its growth by suggesting people get together to explore how it could be developed and applied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as planting and encouraging your own seed ideas, nudge along the seed ideas of others: i<span style="font-family: "arial";">f one partner expresses an interest in another partner and his/her expertise and ideas, nudge them together; if partners ask why a person or organisation is not involved in the work of a collaboration, show interest in the query and (if appropriate) nudge them towards making contact with the person or organisation identified; if partners express enthusiasm for an idea, again show interest and (if appropriate) nudge them towards finding ways to develop the idea.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Plant seed ideas in different places and nudge along other people's seed ideas to encourage dialogue and the sharing of ideas, encourage curiosity, and increase participation and involvement.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-42539794703165033872019-12-22T10:42:00.000-08:002019-12-22T10:59:35.678-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 47. see what is in front of you<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enhance your ability to <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/12/46-secrets-of-successful-collaboration.html"><strong>tap into the unusual</strong></a> by seeing what <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">is in front of you rather than what you think is in front of you. Judge ideas rationally, based upon their merits. Do not allow your judgement of ideas to be influenced by your preconceptions about the people or organisations offering ideas. Focus upon "here and now" realities rather than "wherevers and whenevers" of generalised assumptions. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-6381209976810665802019-12-20T09:56:00.000-08:002019-12-20T12:53:25.067-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 46. tap into the unusual<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;">Search for and explore unusual non-mainstream ideas. Open your mind to their possibilities and explore them with enthusiasm. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;">Work at seeing the ideas from others' perspectives. Work hardest at seeing the ideas from their owners' and users' perspectives; do your best to feel others' enthusiasm for their ideas.<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;">Find ways to assimilate unusual ideas and approaches into the mainstream</span>.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Tap into the unusual to increase inclusion and participation, show respect and acknowledge value, encourage curiosity and challenge accepted ways of doing things, increase understanding and empathy, add to a shared history of collaboration, enhance reputations for collaboration, and reduce the negative effects of mainstream status.)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-59215172215296652572019-12-19T11:25:00.001-08:002020-07-30T13:54:06.082-07:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 45. share your enthusiasm<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VFXTzwHdV6L8WtK2OLw4HnwONzMkKYU5gGh7PlNa2ttfdFUCydceYq7wSQSajksiH8WsvwYF-8fR838g2IUOoNenKQ7032Lbia7nEh03IG8-L1UfD6nHHYCrZzUwbALU-oRe-mc3rIo/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VFXTzwHdV6L8WtK2OLw4HnwONzMkKYU5gGh7PlNa2ttfdFUCydceYq7wSQSajksiH8WsvwYF-8fR838g2IUOoNenKQ7032Lbia7nEh03IG8-L1UfD6nHHYCrZzUwbALU-oRe-mc3rIo/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Share your enthusiasm for not only your collaborative work but also your collaborative relationships. Champion the collaborative approach and the development of collaborative relationships through your words and actions; allow your personal beliefs and feelings about the importance of collaboration and collaborative relationships to colour and enrich your language and guide your actions and decisions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Share your enthusiasm to show people what motivates you personally as well as professionally, help implicit feelings and values to become explicit, and encourage empathy and understanding.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-22002486536440687322019-12-18T09:48:00.000-08:002019-12-18T09:52:49.026-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 44. be curious about and enjoy the journey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enjoy the journey you are taking with others. Be curious about the paths you follow and welcome and embrace the surprises they provide. If you take an apparent wrong turn, be curious about where it leads. Pause occasionally to take stock. Where are you in your collaboration's journey? Where have you been? Where could you go?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you and others have travelled together, what memorable events have happened and what insights have you and others gained as a result? What has each person learnt about the other? What has each person learnt about their collaboration with others? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What has been most enjoyable about your journey with others? Why was this? What has been most disappointing? What can be learnt from this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Be curious about and enjoy the journey to enhance your understanding of those with whom you are travelling, encourage curiosity and conversation, increase the flexibility and resilience of collaborative relationships, and enrich your shared history of collaboration.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-2171344300878591252019-12-17T12:20:00.002-08:002019-12-17T12:20:32.421-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 43. share and explore mistakes and make mistakes make things better <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1olOj2wEtH9hJYeHICTlb3Q9y2vtpZEU2RZDZiHAAm0tolZOEFFoSd_0xCps7811F0KLcLq3P5RcmttS39MpvR7HQHNTzMI8OUdruwUKivoDvD0J5xLHHPB1xEXBj3othwwtAzIB2zg/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1olOj2wEtH9hJYeHICTlb3Q9y2vtpZEU2RZDZiHAAm0tolZOEFFoSd_0xCps7811F0KLcLq3P5RcmttS39MpvR7HQHNTzMI8OUdruwUKivoDvD0J5xLHHPB1xEXBj3othwwtAzIB2zg/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be honest about your mistakes; share and explore them with others. Encourage people to share and explore their mistakes with you and each other. Crucially, focus upon how lessons learnt from mistakes can help enhance processes and outcomes: make mistakes make things better.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Share and explore mistakes and make mistakes make things better to increase openness and sharing, encourage mutual trust, and emphasise the interdependence between people: the fact that people need to work together to overcome each other's mistakes.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-66208161591483689032019-12-16T10:30:00.003-08:002019-12-16T10:35:41.698-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 42. explore differences and allow discord the time and space to resolve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When disagreements, arguments and conflicts emerge, do not immediately seek to close them down or resolve them; allow them time and space to be expressed and explored. When someone disagrees, argues or comes into conflict with you, welcome his or her provocations and invest time and space in exploring them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Explore differences and allow discord the time and space to resolve so you encourage dialogue, challenge current thinking and ways of doing things, encourage collaborative flexibility, build collaborative resilience, demonstrate respect for differing ideas and beliefs, enhance mutual understanding, and encourage implied and partially expressed thoughts and feelings to become clear and explicit.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-52908434353389714322019-12-15T09:24:00.001-08:002019-12-15T09:27:05.851-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 41. explore what lies between, within, around, beneath and behind <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Verbalise thoughts and intuitions that lie between, within, around and behind your explicit and fully formed ideas and opinions; encourage others to do the same. Identify what no one is talking about (e.g., the "elephant in the room" that no one wishes to tackle) and talk about it. Explore taken for granted but often powerful assumptions that lie beneath decisions and actions (e.g., assumptions about what is or is not the problem). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Explore what lies between, within, around, beneath and behind to enrich conversation, increase sharing of opinions and ideas, etc., increase inclusion, challenge existing taken for granted assumptions and beliefs, increase mutual understanding, encourage curiosity, and make what was implicit explicit.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-11265554235504101882019-12-11T09:38:00.001-08:002019-12-11T09:45:07.605-08:00Secrets of successful collaboration: 40. use others' words<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlktB78ZGAhJro9PehfYSZ1KeOmCgqQf4LOTmdCEH8G0zPcX3Lr7REJw2Tyn_uhEJpxxyfDwT7iweJo6jkAZgB9BDpOupUPfUbOwWe_YAMbOnqpwFwP3PYhqc6NRy5e1TUhytfe2Q4EE/s1600/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlktB78ZGAhJro9PehfYSZ1KeOmCgqQf4LOTmdCEH8G0zPcX3Lr7REJw2Tyn_uhEJpxxyfDwT7iweJo6jkAZgB9BDpOupUPfUbOwWe_YAMbOnqpwFwP3PYhqc6NRy5e1TUhytfe2Q4EE/s200/61690531_2528677673832584_6378321984144539648_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Become familiar with the words your collaborators use to describe and express things. What words do they use to describe their key concepts and areas of expertise? What words do they use to describe the key concepts and areas of expertise they share with you? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Try out their words; when talking with your collaborators, use their words.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">(Use others' words to increase your understanding of others and encourage empathy.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034505197086418127.post-41429504196824831532019-12-10T10:57:00.000-08:002019-12-10T11:33:01.522-08:00Secrets of collaborative success: 39. introduce freshness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Introduce new people and ideas into your existing collaborative relationships to freshen perspectives and stimulate new approaches. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Change the environment within which you and others interact (e.g., rotate meetings between collaborators' offices, or meet and work where the beneficiaries of your collaboration's activities live) to not only gain fresh perspectives and approaches but also, quite literally, experience the positions of others. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Work with people to construct small experiments and "try-outs" that test and explore new concepts, ideas and approaches. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">(Introduce freshness to increase collaborative flexibility, increase inclusiveness, encourage curiosity, and challenge current perspectives and ways of doing things.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To read the full post click <a href="https://cuttingedgepartnerships.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-develop-collaborative-meta_20.html"><strong><span style="color: #261fad;">here</span></strong></a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Charles M Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837223763698429139noreply@blogger.com0