50 Activities for Collaborative Management

Authors: Peter Garber

In 50 Activities for Collaborative Management, you’ll find an array of dynamic and engaging exercises to help you explore what makes collaborative management work, its potential benefits and how to experience them in your organization.

Organizations everywhere are facing the challenge of how to work more closely with one another. This collection of ready-to-use activities will help you better understand the concept of collaborative management—a term used to describe an ideal work environment where everyone is dedicated to achieving a common objective.

Each exercise highlights a specific aspect of collaboration, such as:

• Thinking collaboratively
• Ten collaboration myths
• Finding collaborative common ground
• Playing collaborative roles
• Finding collaborative opportunities
• Talent tapping
• Erroneous collaborative assumptions
• Reaching collaborative consensus

With each exercise, you’ll get everything you need to bring it to life—including a purpose, description, time to allot, presentation tips and debriefing statement.

The book is ideal for trainers and managers who are looking for creative ways to:

• Reduce the risk in decision-making
• Bring different perspectives and expertise into the decision-making process
• Instill ownership in decision-making
• Eliminate finger pointing and the “blame game”

Designed as a unique way to bring people together, 50 Activities will elicit the best from all those involved in making decisions and solving problems.

Table of Contents

Part One-Learning to Collaborate

Activity 1 -Understanding Collaborative Management

Activity 2-Thinking Collaboratively

Activity 3-Collaborative Collectiveness

Activity 4-Conventional vs. Collaborative Cultures

Activity 5-Collaborative Showstoppers

Activity 6-Collaborative Influencers

Activity 7-Opinion Leaders

Activity 8-Over Approvals

Activity 9-Collaborative Partnering

Activity 10-Testing the Collaborative Waters

Activity 11-Ten Collaboration Myths 

Activity 12-“It Takes an Organization” to Collaborate

Activity 13-In Search of Collaboration

Activity 14-Collaborative “Turn-offs”

Activity 15-The Reluctant Collaborative

Activity 16-Collerabertive Consortiums

Activity 17-Collaboration Essentials

Part Two-Collaboration Applications

Activity 18-Finding Collaborative Common Ground

Activity 19-Collaborative Teaming

Activity 20-Collaborative Collateral

Activity 21- Seven Steps to Establishing Collaborative Management

Activity 22-Collaborative Management Applications

Activity 23-Collaborative Risk Analysis

Activity 24-The Elephant in the Corner

Activity 25-Collaborative Decisioning

Activity 26-Crediting Collaboration

Activity 27-Collaborative Group Think Avoidance

Activity 28-Talent Tapping

Activity 29-The Real Experts 

Activity 30-Collaborative IQ 

Activity 31-Collaborative Break-Through Solutions

Activity 32-To Collaborate or not to Collaborate?

Activity 33-Reinventing Collaboration

Part Three-Collaboration Exercises

Activity 34- Assessing Collaboration Values

Activity 35- Collaborative Puzzle Parts

Activity 36-Playing Collaborative Roles

Activity 37- Reaching Collaborative Consensus

Activity 38-Collaborative Arm-Wrestling

Activity 39-Collaborative Diversity

Activity 40-Erroneous Collaborative Assumptions

Activity 41-Finding Collaborative Opportunities 

Activity 42-How many people does it take to Collaborate?

Activity 43-The Ghosts of Collaboration Past

Activity 44-Collaborative Decision Levels

Activity 45-Collaboration Kaleidoscope

Part Four-Collaboration Models

Activity 46-Collaborative Development Process

Activity 47-Collaborative Change Model

Activity 48-Collaborative Decision Charting

Activity 49-Collaborative Intervention Model

Activity 50-Collaborative Continuum

200 pp