Collaboration…what does it really mean? Good collaboration happens when people are working well together, and where creativity and innovation is fostered. Here, I share key principles for collaborative relationships and leading a collaborative organization, along with insights into the makeup of innovative teams.

1. From Collaboration
to Innovation
Ben Ziegler (Collaborative Journeys)

2. Collaboration is about
people working together

3. 1+1>2

4. Big challenges to collaboration
Our nature What we nurture

5. Collaborative relationships:
Principles for working together

6. Bid for connection
Many : 1

7. Sit in a circle
Sitting in a circle is a process

8. Peel the onion, and…
understand needs

9. “Yes,
but
and…”

10. Reframe conflict
…and change the game

11. Me AND We
Find common ground

12. Break bread together
Ritual matters

13. “Creativity is thinking up
new things. Innovation is
doing new things.”
(Theodore Levitt)

14. Leading the way
to innovation

15. Think Systems...
and organization
as a living system

17. Structure
for behaviour

19. Make it…
safe to fail

20. Transform through conversations

22. Integrate thinking and doing
Sunlight of
thought
Sea of activity

24. Tell stories
The “gutter”
The Story

26. Knowledge Bank
Invest
your
community’s
knowledge “residue” of experience
project other
world worlds

28. Link sustainability…
to long-term relationships

30. Resolve disputes
appropriately
They
I We We +
Who decides?

32. Appreciate
the core
Appreciation may be the most significant
human psychological need

33. Work with the flow…
source: flickr.com/photos/articnomad

34. Shifting Demographics
Source: flickr.com/photos/chimothy27/

35. Technology Advances

36. Networks lead to new ways of
organization

37. Call for civic engagement
Source: timescolonist.com

38. And believe in…

39. teams no bigger than a jazz band,
Source: mouseplanet.com

40. where structure and creativity meet up,

41. and innovation happens.

42. Questions?

43. Contact
Ben Ziegler
1.250.516.3936
ben@collaborativejourneys.com