You mean collaboration doesn’t mean lots more work?!

We think collaboration means lots of work, lots of talk, lots of meetings, lots of time and not all of it useful. But that's not inevitable.

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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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Resetting your collaboration

The relationship element is harder to see and trickier to deal with, but much more likely to allow smooth sailing when…

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Sure signs it is time to reset your collaboration

How would you recognise that it’s time to reset your collaboration? Take a look at these signs.

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What migraines taught me about overmanaging

I woke with a migraine, and dragged myself to the meeting feeling pretty terrible, so just had to sit there and let it…

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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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Experimenting with Siri

Siri and I got where we wanted to go through a process of testing and learning the way forward together.

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Iconic relationships for iconic waterways

We can’t achieve an iconic waterway without working on the relationships between the people and groups who hold the…

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Shared Direction- “What does good look like?”

It is essential to be clear on what success looks like to be confident that the solutions that emerge will be resilient…

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