WHAT IS COLLABORATE FOR RESULTS?

The Challenge

Leaders are challenged to maximize productivity and flexibility in dynamic teams.  Effective teams can quickly shift from individual beliefs and issues to what’s best for the team and organization.  They focus on maximizing resources, innovative solutions and results.

When collaboration is essential, changes in policies, structures and systems can create a team of “lone rangers.”  Why?  Because "change" can foster an environment of distrust, uncertainty, “talk for talk's sake” and “busy-ness”.  This can produce inconsistent and costly results. 

The Solution

Collaborate for Results focuses on a model for team development.  Participants learn skills to develop trust and partnership.  The program offers skills and tools to enhance collaborative performance.

Collaborate for Results has four key components:

• Big Picture and bottom-line focus - Teams set clearly defined objectives.  Teams value differing perspectives to make sound decisions that may have to integrate with other departments.  They learn to get curious and listen for new possibilities to improve productivity.  
• Trust - Trust is fundamental to collaboration. The long-term quality and quantity of results is proportionate to the quantity of trust in ad hoc teams.  Effective leaders make decisions and act based upon valuable knowledge gained from trust and an open exchange of information and ideas.  
• Structure - Effective leaders use a consistent structure to develop and maintain a collaborative culture that creatively tackles challenges.
• Ownership and Continuous Improvement – Collaborative leaders and teams take ownership for developing listening and speaking skills to deliver innovative results.

The Achievement