[TBD]Learning from Collaborative leadership

Why collaboration is important nowadays

• Company is experience always changing environment

• Customer is demanding customized experience. To address it, we need within team collaboration and across the team collaboration

• Brings as Innovation advantages

• Increases employee satisfaction

• Non-collaborative teams works in silos and only interested in Just let me do my job mentality. Silos could be due to making boundaries based on geo region, functional team, department, teams

• It has moved from nice to have to must to have corporate stretegy

Personal benefit for collaborative work

• Company recognizes people who work across the boundaries

Collaboration tips

• Collaboration with customer

• 
  

• Emphatic listening

• Social sensitivity. Google study of 100's great team, they found that each team member spoke for almost same amount of time in a meeting

• Visual thinking. Use visual means

• Run inclusive brainstorming sessions

  • Initially focus on quantity, not the quality

  • Divide into two phase

    • Generating

    • Evaluating

  • Use LCS (Like, Concern, solution) approach for evaluating phase

• Deal effectively with negativity

• Body language

  • Make eye contact

  • Smile

  • Nod the head

  • Open your body

  • Lean in

  • Face people in front

• Help team members to make relationship

  • Room arrangement for collaboration training to team

    • Round table

    • Music

    • Serve food

    • People discuss everything except business

  • Remove psychological barrier

    • Meet team members individually and watch which class he/she belongs

      • Misers -> Who think that sharing knowledge will reduce his/her power. Tell him below

        • Keeping knowledge no longer helps

        • Quickly learning

        • Sharing

        • Unlearn

      • hindsights -> They feel that they can't succeed in new collaborative environment

        • Create growth mindset

      • Oracle -> they feel collaboration is waste of time

        • Make realizes that there are more than one right answers

    • Work for building trust among team members

      • First trust on yourself

      • Kinds of trust within team

        • Competence based trust. Team member trusts the person who is competent

        • Helping nature. Team member trusts the person whom he feel will help not harm

      • Trust with leadership

        • Before expecting that team trusts you, ensure that team knows, you trust on them

        • 
          

• Virtual collaboration tips

  • Clear expectation

  • Spend few minutes on personal talk during the long meeting

  • Ack someone's comment before answering. For example, you have made interesting comment

  • Use right channel

    • If things are clear, then use lean channel like email, chat

    • If things are not clear, then use rich channel like video meeting, call

• Aware of cultural differences

  • Bring cultural conflicts into open. For example, if there is non-english people conversation, then mention how it is difficult for english speaking people who couldn't understand

  • It is very important since company is becoming more and more diverse with people having varieties of culture

Collaboration tests

• Reading the mind in the eyes

Organizational strategy change

• Shifting from command N control to influence N inclusion

• Company promoting people who work across the boundaries

•