edge+stretch collaboration
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Learning how to collaborate means wrestling with your relationship with conflict, and challenging your stories and assumptions.
We help with that.
Most organisations get collaboration wrong for two reasons:
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They confuse collaboration with cooperation, prizing the preservation of harmony over working through tensions and differences
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They are not sufficiently skilled in doing conflict well.
The problem is, if you cannot ‘do’ collaboration, then cross-functional working is difficult, climate and culture can worsen, and value creation tanks. All you get is ‘better sameness’.
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There is no Silver Bullet for collaboration.
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It requires doing the ‘work proper’. Get in touch to improve how you work together, work with difference, do conflict well and get better at being usefully crunchy with each other.
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“You take people to a place where they're uncomfortable, but never unsafe.”
Adrian Clarke
Virgin Media
Find out more about our work with organisations:
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