MEETING
THE CHALLENGE
Collaboration Excellence for High-Performing Workgroups
2-Day Professional Development and Needs Assessment
Session
The challenge: How do we accelerate the speed at which we innovate in a collaborative environment characterized by increasing complexity and rapid change?
What
resources can we draw upon when people may already feel stretched to their
perceived limits?
In a team where each individual contributor performs at high levels of
excellence, how do we optimize the value and impact of our collaborative
efforts?
Collaborative excellence is essential for creating innovative solutions or results, especially where speed and adaptability are critical. Cultivating collaborative excellence requires more than technical brilliance; it takes practice and skill in building relationships. As management theorist Karl Weick comments, "complex situations put a real premium on group processes, division of labor, trust, reaffirmation of what we respect and what we question in each other."
Conscious and explicit development of trust is a crucial and frequently overlooked element where groups strive for high-performance collaboration. It is essential for relationship building that allows organizations to be agile. Edward M. Marshall states in "Building Trust at the Speed of Change" that "the most effective and fastest business organizations are those which understand how to mobilize the power of trust-based relationships in the workplace; it is a matter of focus, awareness and systems of structure and reinforcement. ...How we create speed distinguishes the winners."
Intended Outcomes from Program Partipication:
This program is a superior needs assessment in support of an ongoing commitment to foster collaborative excellence. It is superior in that workgroup members themselves assess and collectively prioritize their needs within a set of parameters focused on collaborative excellence. Benefits you can expect from this program include improvement with respect to:
Increased
awareness of and access to talents and skills available in your group
Productive,
adaptive teams that share vision and commitment
Learning
environments that encourage risk-taking and innovation
Follow
through that is consistent with the spirit and letter of agreements
Rapid,
decentralized and appropriate response to change, and
Attraction
and retention of the caliber of people you want to work with.
Participants will gain awareness and tools for dealing
with recurrent, costly breakdowns that can result in:
Missed
opportunities and slow recovery from mistakes
Workgroup
members withholding knowledge and full participation
Toxic
work environments (including real-time and virtual), and
Overall
diminished productivity.
Program Structure:
Who needs to be present: All workgroup members
What the group will do: Using the Reina model and survey data, review their experience of trust in collaboration and leadership; assess options for support and intervention.
Preparation: All participants complete a brief online survey (Reina Team Trust Scale™)
Day
One: Foundation
The
first day sets the foundation and context for a productive and pragmatic
inquiry about collaboration dynamics. Participants zero in on trust--what
builds it, what restores it when it is betrayed--from their own experience
and within the framework of the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model™.
Day
Two: Application
The
second day is devoted to applying insights and using the model. The group
reviews the survey results and explores possible meanings and implications
of the data. Using the data about their collective experience, group members
identify objectives for what they want to reinforce or change and viable
ways for accomplishing those objectives.
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Beata C. Lewis, J.D., guides business leaders and their teams developing mastery in practices that cultivate trust-based collaboration. As a coach and consultant she works with organizations meeting the challenges of growth and change, especially in regenerating collaboration where it breaks down, due to lapses in communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, collaborative process, and agreement structuring. She is one of a select group of coaches and consultants certified to work with the Reina Trust and Betrayal Modelª and to administer its instruments to benchmark, measure, and monitor levels of trust within organizational systems. For more information, see Who.
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