Collaboration: the New Political Mandate
Laura Peck
Claros GroupSeptember 11, 2004
Learning Together
What are your burning questions?
What are the tensions, dilemmas, challenges you face as you work more collaboratively?
What leadership competencies are called forth?
How have you broadened your notion of who needs to be at the table and why?
What stories can you share about roaring successes and catastrophic failure?
Workshop Overview
An overarching framework: Plan, Act, Reflect Network Analysis: who’s in, what’s important
to them, how are folks connected? A Tested Planning Tool Learning from Success Building in feedback loops The work of ending
The work of an organization is always iterative. PlanningPlanning sets the context for ActionAction which is then the source of data for ReflectionReflection to guide further PlanningPlanning.
Network Analysis
1. Identify Stakeholders:– what concerns are central to them?– what resources can they bring? (political, financial, human)
2. Map their relationships: – to the focal work of the collaboration– to each other
3. Where do you and your organization fit?– What are your concerns?– What resources can you bring?– Who are your allies?
Get Clear Before You Get Moving
Do the hard and necessary work of formation: Who are we? What’s going on now? What do we want to achieve in the future? What are the principles that will guide our thinking,
actions, and decisions? What are the tensions & challenges ? What are the approaches we could take?
A Practical Planning Model
TensionsTensions
Principles, StandardsPrinciples, StandardsThe WorkThe Work
Deep LearningDeep Learning
Strategies,Strategies,StructureStructure
WORK ON THIS SIDEFIRST
ENERGY WILL FLOW TO ENERGY WILL FLOW TO THIS SIDETHIS SIDE
IdentityIdentity
Relationships,Relationships,ConnectionsConnections
InformationInformation
IntentionsIntentions
Working with this Model
Learning from Success
Describe a time when you were part of a powerful and productive collaboration, a situation that brought out the best in all involved and made a difference in the world.
What was going on?
What made it so powerful?
Who else was involved? Were there some “significant others”?
Why were they significant?
What was your unique contribution?
What conditions supported your and others doing great work?
Feedback loops
Learning from experienceMeeting evaluationsProgress updatesProcess check ins
Staying connected to othersBetween meetingsTo sponsorsTo critical stakeholders
The Work of Endings
Celebration
Acknowledgments
Reflection
Clean up
After Action Review
After Action Review - Steps in the Process
Step One:
SCANReview the initialintent/desired outcomes(discuss what was supposedto happen).
Describe what actuallyhappened & why(discuss what specificallywas said, done, etc.)
Step Two:
INTERPRET
Identify lessonslearned
Identify implicationsand possible actions
Step Three:
ACT
Take actionShare lessons learned
AAR: Questions to Ask
Possible Questions to Ask
Step One:
SCAN
To what degree did weachieve our intent - didwe get the results wewanted?
What actions did we takethat got us the results wegot?
Step Two:
INTERPRET
What encouraged us toact the way we did?(assumptions, policies, roles,etc.)
What did we learn bydoing what we did?
Looking back, what couldwe have done differently?
Step Three:
ACT
What will we do now?
Next steps? (includinghow to disseminatelearning?
Claros Group We help leaders and workgroups to get clear, get moving, and stay focused.
Laura Peck
969 Kains Ave.
Albany, CA 94706
510.524.3150
FAX: 510.524.9307
www.clarosgroup.com