50 Activities for Collaborative Management - Print Version

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.

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

Part One-Learning to Collaborate

Activity 1 -Understanding Collaborative Management

Activity 2-Thinking Collaboratively

Activity 3-Collaborative Collectiveness

Activity 4-Conventional vs. Collaborative Cultures

Activity 5-Collaborative Showstoppers

Activity 6-Collaborative Influencers

Activity 7-Opinion Leaders

Activity 8-Over Approvals

Activity 9-Collaborative Partnering

Activity 10-Testing the Collaborative Waters

Activity 11-Ten Collaboration Myths 

Activity 12-“It Takes an Organization” to Collaborate

Activity 13-In Search of Collaboration

Activity 14-Collaborative “Turn-offs”

Activity 15-The Reluctant Collaborative

Activity 16-Collerabertive Consortiums

Activity 17-Collaboration Essentials

Part Two-Collaboration Applications

Activity 18-Finding Collaborative Common Ground

Activity 19-Collaborative Teaming

Activity 20-Collaborative Collateral

Activity 21- Seven Steps to Establishing Collaborative Management

Activity 22-Collaborative Management Applications

Activity 23-Collaborative Risk Analysis

Activity 24-The Elephant in the Corner

Activity 25-Collaborative Decisioning

Activity 26-Crediting Collaboration

Activity 27-Collaborative Group Think Avoidance

Activity 28-Talent Tapping

Activity 29-The Real Experts 

Activity 30-Collaborative IQ 

Activity 31-Collaborative Break-Through Solutions

Activity 32-To Collaborate or not to Collaborate?

Activity 33-Reinventing Collaboration

Part Three-Collaboration Exercises

Activity 34- Assessing Collaboration Values

Activity 36-Playing Collaborative Roles

Activity 37- Reaching Collaborative Consensus

Activity 38-Collaborative Arm-Wrestling

Activity 39-Collaborative Diversity

Activity 40-Erroneous Collaborative Assumptions

Activity 41-Finding Collaborative Opportunities 

Activity 42-How many people does it take to Collaborate?

Activity 43-The Ghosts of Collaboration Past

Activity 44-Collaborative Decision Levels

Activity 45-Collaboration Kaleidoscope

Part Four-Collaboration Models

Activity 46-Collaborative Development Process

Activity 47-Collaborative Change Model

Activity 48-Collaborative Decision Charting

Activity 49-Collaborative Intervention Model

Activity 50-Collaborative Continuum

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