50 Activities for Collaborative Management

✍ Scribed by Peter R. Garber, Sally Farnham, Eileen Klockars

• Publisher: HRD Press, Inc
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: 50 Activities Series
• Edition: 1 Lslf
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quick, easy-to-use exercises to get everyone working together 50 Activities for Collaborative Management Peter Garber Organizations everywhere are facing the challenge of how to work more closely with one another. This collection of ready-to-use activities will help you better understand the concept of collaborative management—a term used to describe an ideal work environment where everyone is dedicated to achieving a common objective. In 50 Activities for Collaborative Management, you’ll find an array of dynamic and engaging exercises to help you explore what makes collaborative management work, its potential benefits and how to experience them in your organization. Each exercise highlights a specific aspect of collaboration, such as: • Thinking collaboratively • Ten collaboration myths • Finding collaborative common ground • Playing collaborative roles • Finding collaborative opportunities • Talent tapping • Erroneous collaborative assumptions • Reaching collaborative consensus With each exercise, you’ll get everything you need to bring it to life—including a purpose, description, time to allot, presentation tips and debriefing statement. The book is ideal for trainers and managers who are looking for creative ways to: • Reduce the risk in decision-making • Bring different perspectives and expertise into the decision-making process • Instill ownership in decision-making • Eliminate finger pointing and the “blame game” Designed as a unique way to bring people together, 50 Activities will elicit the best from all those involved in making decisions and solving problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 3
Introduction......Page 5
PART I: Learning to Collaborate......Page 7
ACTIVITY 1: Understanding Collaborative Management......Page 9
ACTIVITY 2: Thinking Collaboratively......Page 13
ACTIVITY 3: Collaborative Collectiveness......Page 15
ACTIVITY 4: Conventional vs. Collaborative Cultures......Page 17
ACTIVITY 5: Collaborative Showstoppers......Page 21
ACTIVITY 6:
Collaborative Influencers......Page 25
ACTIVITY 7: Opinion Leaders......Page 27
ACTIVITY 8: Over-Approvals......Page 31
ACTIVITY 9: Collaborative Partnering......Page 33
ACTIVITY 10: Testing the Collaborative Waters......Page 35
ACTIVITY 11:
Ten Myths About Collaboration (and the Truth Behind Them)......Page 41
ACTIVITY 12:
“It Takes an Organization” to Collaborate......Page 45
ACTIVITY 13: In Search of Collaboration......Page 49
ACTIVITY 14:
Collaborative “Turn-offs”......Page 53
ACTIVITY 15: The Reluctant Collaborative......Page 57
ACTIVITY 16: Collaborative Consortiums......Page 59
ACTIVITY 17: Collaboration Essentials......Page 61
PART II: Collaboration Applications......Page 65
ACTIVITY 18: Finding Collaborative Common Ground......Page 67
ACTIVITY 19: Collaborative Teaming......Page 71
ACTIVITY 20: Collaborative Collateral......Page 73
ACTIVITY 21: Seven Steps to Establishing Collaborative Management......Page 75
ACTIVITY 22: Collaborative Management Applications......Page 81
ACTIVITY 23: Collaborative Risk Analysis......Page 85
ACTIVITY 24: The Elephant in the Corner......Page 89
ACTIVITY 25: Collaborative Decisioning......Page 91
ACTIVITY 26: Crediting Collaboration......Page 95
ACTIVITY 27: Collaborative Groupthink Avoidance......Page 99
ACTIVITY 28:
Talent Tapping......Page 101
ACTIVITY 29: The Real Experts......Page 103
ACTIVITY 30: Collaborative IQ......Page 107
ACTIVITY 31: Collaboration Breakthrough Solutions......Page 113
ACTIVITY 32: To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate?......Page 117
ACTIVITY 33: Reinventing Collaboration......Page 121
PART III: Collaboration Exercises......Page 123
ACTIVITY 34: Assessing Collaboration Values......Page 125
ACTIVITY 35: Collaboration Puzzle Parts......Page 133
ACTIVITY 36: Playing Collaborative Roles......Page 139
ACTIVITY 37: Reaching Collaborative Consensus......Page 145
ACTIVITY 38: Collaborative Arm-Wrestling......Page 147
ACTIVITY 39: Collaborative Diversity......Page 149
ACTIVITY 40: Erroneous Collaborative Assumptions......Page 153
ACTIVITY 41: Finding Collaborative Opportunities......Page 155
ACTIVITY 42:
How many people does it take to collaborate?......Page 159
ACTIVITY 43: Ghosts of Collaborations Past......Page 163
ACTIVITY 44: Collaboration Decision Levels......Page 167
ACTIVITY 45: Collaboration Kaleidoscope......Page 173
PART IV: Collaboration Models......Page 179
ACTIVITY 46: Collaborative Development Process......Page 181
ACTIVITY 47: Collaborative Change Model......Page 185
ACTIVITY 48: Collaborative Decision Mapping......Page 189
ACTIVITY 49: Collaborative Intervention Model......Page 195
ACTIVITY 50: Collaborative Continuum......Page 199
ACTIVITY 51: Collaborative Hierarchy......Page 203