Collaborating for Success©

Carnegie Mellon University Research

Workshop Overview

In an increasing more complex world people need to come together and mine their collective knowledge and energy to make things happen. People need more than ever to collaborate within their team, across their organisation, across multiple organisations or even across a whole industry. However, to successfully collaborate is often complicated and difficult to maintain.

What is needed is a simple road map that allows people to master the art of collaborating and to achieve results quicker.

The Collaborating for Success© workshop provides a clear road map that is highly useable. The fundamental skill of being able to get collaborative results quickly is facilitation. Facilitating the involvement of the implementers in the decision making process is a very powerful way to engage people's hearts and minds. Done well, it paradoxically takes less time and results in, not only better ideas or strategies, but solid follow through of action plans.

The benefits to you include:

• Access to more knowledge
• Access to more energy
• Faster and higher quality results
• Better ideas and strategies
• Faster implementation
• Developing the capacity of the team
• More time to focus on broader issues
• Ability to enjoy a holiday and have the place continue to work well
• A work environment you and your team get excited about turning up to

In summary, it makes life a lot less stressful.

The Collaborating for Success© workshop has been refined over ten years by Kevin Nuttall, a professional facilitator. The workshop is not theoretical, but is a distillation of practical tools and methods of helping groups to make better decisions and act on them.

You will walk out of the workshop with enough practice and courage to "have a go" back in your work place.

The workshop has two major components.

1.

Learning a generic collaboration model called Four Seasons

2.

Learning the underlying skills and behaviours to be a successful facilitator called The Forum Model

Four Seasons

The premise of Four Seasons is simple; people enter a room in different mental seasons. For example, some people don't even understand the issue while others are already at the solution and action stage.

The only way to engage the 'collective intelligence' of the group is to wind back to the beginning to get everyone at the same starting point and in a structured way and collectively move the group through the four mental seasons. Interestingly, people who are in the "let's do this now" mode often have missed key facts and typically have gone directly from the problem to the solution. "Winding back to the beginning" sounds time consuming; surprisingly it is not. Four Seasons is a rapid, very elegant process that gets consensus and intelligent actions.

Contrast this to the number of meetings you have spent that have degenerated into contests of wills with very little listening going on!

It is said the biggest waste of resources on the planet today is people working in groups. Four Seasons can fix that.

The Forum Model

To use a PC as an analogy: If Four Seasons is the application, eg Word or Excel, then The Forum Model is the Operating System, ie Windows.

Four Seasons is only one of many collaboration processes. Each of these processes requires certain skills and behaviours to make them work. The Forum Model identifies each of these skills and behaviours and ensures you understand the theory and practice each of the elements individually and as a package.

The elements in the Forum Model are:

1.

Behaviours

2.

Active Listening

3.

Group-Mind Mapping

4.

Interviewing

5.

Ownership

6.

Conflict Resolution

7.

Group Dynamics

Collectively these skills and behaviours form the basis of you being able to take a group of people from no agreement to consensus on action plans they will act on.

Who is the workshop leader?

Kevin Nuttall is a fulltime professional facilitator specialising in collaboration.

Kevin jokes that he is "Australia's leading content free presenter". The beauty of his role is that he does not need to have detailed content knowledge to be of enormous value to a team or the whole organisation. Skills in helping people think and act in concert as a cohesive whole are incredibly valuable.

Kevin's clients all come from the best type of advertising, which are satisfied clients making word of mouth recommendations to their associates. These clients include:

Property Council of Australia

Jones Lang LaSalle

Royal & SunAlliance (Australia and UK)

QBE Insurance

IBM

SAS Institute

Australian CPA

Safe Foods Production

BP

Australian and NZ Landcare Facilitators

City of Melbourne

Committee for Melbourne

AXA

NRMA

Australian Building Control Board

Melbourne Docklands

Kevin is a highly experienced facilitator first and a trainer second. His primary interest is in you being able to take and use what you learn in the workshop. The workshop is therefore focused on adding skills and behaviours to your skill set. A process Kevin calls "mental software installation".

So if you would like some new "mental software" that will help improve your collaborating skills, reduce your stress and help accelerate your career, we look forward to seeing you on the workshop.

Price

(Includes work book, pens, behavioural profile and lunch)

Single Attendee

Corporate Rate*

$2,000 per attendee

$1,500 per attendee

* 10 or more people from the same company per annum

Contact Details

For workshop bookings, please register on-line or contact Fiona Nuttall for details on in-house workshops.

Fiona Nuttall

Phone 02 9487 5390

Mobile 0414 249 823

fnuttall@waterfield.com.au