An Entrepreneur's Guide to Collaboration in the Events Industry

1. Collaboration:
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Successful Partnering in the Event Industry

2. Collaboration:
An Entrepreneur’s Guide
to Successful Partnering in the Event Industry
Frank Robinson
IslandEventsHawaii.com
@IslandEventsHI #TSE2013
facebook.com/IslandEventsHI
ISLAND EVENTS

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.
Identify key traits or
characteristics in those who
are great collaborators

4. 2.
Learn how to identify different
types of collaborative
opportunities

5. 3.
Learn to recognize when (and
when not) to collaborate.

6. 4.
Leave with a better understanding
of the basic tenets of
collaboration and how to apply
them with great success!

7. collaborate |kəˈlabəˌrāt|
verb [ intrans.]
To work jointly on an activity, esp.
to produce or create something.

8. How is
collaboration
different?

9. Teams must have
a common purpose.

10. Teams must value diverse
membership and ideas.

11. Respect each member’s expertise.

12. Trust one another.

13. Trust allows members to
share decision-making and
responsibility.

14. What else does
collaboration
require?

15. Collaboration requires:
✓ Interdependence
✓ Interpersonal skills
✓ Monitoring of group process
✓ Individual accountability
Works best with face-to-face interaction.

16. Collaboration
is
not easy!

17. Why
collaborate?

18. Learning Objective #1
Identify key traits, skills or
characteristics in those who are
Great Collaborators.

19. Group Discussion

20. Qualities of Collaboration:
• Trust
• Openness & respect
• Expertise or skill set
• Active Participants
• Director
• Contributor
• Think Differently than you

25. Learning Objective #2
Learn how to identify different
types of collaborative
opportunities that are available.

26. Type #1 : Communal Collaboration

27. Type #2: Business Collaboration

28. Developing a collaborative team

29. What is keeping you from collaborating?

30. Look to your surroundings
differently!

31. Embrace the Unexpected...

32. Who could I partner with, who could:
...help me get this job?
...do this better than me alone?
...make this easier if we worked together?
...that I could learn from
or help me while I help them?

33. Look for opportunities to
offer an extension
of what you already do.

34. Group Situational
Feedback Session

35. Learning Objective # 3
Learn to recognize when (and
when not) to collaborate.

39. PROS & CONS TO CONSIDER
•Time Required
• Profit
• Personal Fulfillment
• Resources Required
• Others in the Process
• End Results
• Residual Effects

40. Group Situational
Feedback Session

41. WHAT IS MY “GUT”
TELLING ME?

42. Learning Objective # 4
the “overall” goal
Leave with a better
understanding of the basic tenets
of collaboration and how to apply
them with great success!

43. Teamwork is the ability to work
together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward
organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common
people to attain uncommon results.
— Andrew Carnegie

44. Mahalo!

45. Frank Robinson
ISLAND EVENTS
frank@IslandEventsHawaii.com
IslandEventsHawaii.com
@IslandEventsHI
/IslandEventsHI
#TSE2013
(808) 875-8833
ISLAND EVENTS