Am I Getting My Ducks in a Row, or Collaborating?

How do I know when I'm over-thinking and over-planning my engagement with stakeholders?

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Is there something other than ‘othering’

Can anyone point to a single example where positive and constructive outcomes have arisen from highlighting the…

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From Groaning to Growing With Your Collaborators

When collaborating on difficult problems, that groaning you hear is the sound of old ideas fading and new ideas…

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Being comfortable with discomfort

While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…

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How to Disappear Completely

Rather than seeking more control to wrangle your stakeholders, it often pays to disappear, if not completely, then just…

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Overcoming the inertia- just try stuff

Perhaps just ‘trying stuff’ (and living with a degree of uncertainty) can overcome that frustrating feeling that we…

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Trusting the data in co-design

....they had been focused on the data, and rather than the less obvious contextual issues that were also critical to…

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Take a different viewpoint

the importance of seeing more than one viewpoint when tackling a complex situation to build a clearer and more complete…

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Just Try Stuff….

“Just try stuff” was about recognising that a key characteristic of a complex situation like a pandemic is uncertainty…

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Turn rejection into collaboration

.....an example of ‘weaponizing’ rejection or disagreement..... And while rejection is frustrating, it’s still an…

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