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After Your Social Networking Succeeds

Seven Collaboration Techniques

To Increase Results

Susan McMillin, PMP, CISSP

1. Why are we working together?

2. What are we going to do?

From Ken Thompson

The Two Most Important Questions to Answer in any

Collaboration

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1. Why are we working together on collaboration?

◦ Problems are complex, interdependent, ◦ Solutions are new, many possibilities◦ Lots of stakeholders◦ Working together is a skill that can be learned◦ We’re all in this together

2. What are we going to do today?◦ Explore Good Collaboration and◦ 7 Collaboration Techniques

Why and What


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What Does it Look Like?

Working together Mutual benefit Achieve an outcome Everyone gains from

the experience Everyone contributes

to the result Result may be

unknown at beginning

What is Good Collaboration?

1. Two Questions Approach2. Capture the Flag3. Artists, Patriots and Kings4. Beyond Brainstorming5. Three Way Voting6. Mary Poppins Method7. Score Boarding

Seven Collaboration Techniques




Why and What – Define Goal

Who and What – Define Stakeholders

What do they needWhat do they bring

Who and How- Define Ground Rules

What and Who- Plan

Why and What- Met goal? What changes?

1- WhyWhat

2- WhoWhat

3- Who How

4- What Who

1 Two Questions Approach

2 Capture the Flag

1. Define Your Flag.2. Make sure everyone

knows the rules.3. Choose Your Team(s)4. Map the Territory5. Set Your Strategy

◦ Attack Strategy◦ Defense Strategy

6. Improvise to Capture the Flag

Have Fun With It.



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3 Artists, Patriots, and Kings

•Interested in Beauty of the End Result•Unorthodox- Independent• All Good Ideas Win•Quantity of Ideas over Quality

Change Roles as Process Proceeds, Be Clear What Role You are In

•Interested in End Result•Everyone is equal•Consensus Driven•Common Idea or Plan •Best Idea Wins•Out of Many, One

• One person makes the final decision• Artists and Patriots for the Discussion- Monarch for the Decision•All Follow Monarch

Generate Lots of Ideas

Then a Miracle Occurs

Effective Plan for Results

4 Beyond Brainstorming

A Picture is worth a

Thousand Words.


Mind mapping Hierarchy Fishbone Ordered List Blob Diagram Sticky Notes

Common Collaboration Charts

Org

For Sorting Data

Chart




Check group for agreement frequently.

Find easy things to agree on first.

Give an option to Yes or No.

5 Build Agreement with Three Way Voting

YES

NO

I CAN LIVE

WITH IT

Ask- What are we doing right? What is going well?

Praise Accomplishment, Achievement, Creativity

6 The Mary Poppins MethodIn every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap the job’s a game.

• Games increase creativity, improve problem solving , and engagement.

• Games have clear objective, rules, way to keep score.

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way.




If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

First Rule Of Empowerment (Ken Blanchard)

◦ Provide everyone with management data

◦ Immediate◦ Show progress and

performance Make it a Game

You get what you measure.

7 Score Boarding

Be Very Clear

Produces Results Win-Win Feels Good Creative Inclusive Is Fun Builds Bridges

Good Collaboration

1- WhyWhat

2- WhoWhat

3- Who How

4- What Who



People have been collaborating since Prehistoric Times.

It is in our DNA.

You can do this!

You Can Do This!

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