Learning the Art of Dialogue : Skillful Peer Coaching and Peer Group Coaching
When learning about our Skillful Collaboration approach, teams and their leaders develop the skills of Dialogue through practice in conversations, decisions and meetings. We define a ‘skill’ as something that can be developed through intentional practice. Teams first learn the models and skills in our experiential workshops (Skillful Conversations / Skillful Decisions / Skillful Meetings) […]
Learning the Art of Dialogue : Skillful Meetings
The 3rd step of the Skillful Collaboration approach is called Skillful Meetings. By the time teams and their leaders reach this step, they have already experienced how developing their skills of ‘Dialogue’ improves the quality of their conversations and the collective ability to make rigorous and well considered decisions. At this point the approach guides […]
Learning the Art of Dialogue : Skillful Decisions
In the previous post we explored how the Dialogic Actions help teams create more Skillful Conversations. Teams become more aware of how they are talking and listening and thinking together and begin to recognize the conversational patterns that either help or hinder the quality of their interactions. But conversations alone don’t create value. Teams create […]
Learning the Art of Dialogue : Skillful Conversations
In the previous post I explained that the Skillful Collaboration approach is built upon the principles of Dialogue, which can be intentionally practiced and woven into four everyday human interactions in our work places. The first of these interactions is Skillful Conversations. Every team has conversations every day. They happen informally ‘one-to-one’ over coffee, in […]
Learning the Art of Dialogue : Skillful Collaboration
Our mission with Skillful Collaboration is ‘to help teams everywhere grow the human skills of collaboration.’ Seems simple, but let’s pick it apart. We define Skillful as ‘the ability to do something well.’ And Collaboration simply means working together. It comes from the Latin words col, meaning together, and labore, meaning to work. We define […]
Upskilling Your Teams
A Time for Skills Development It is widely recognised that Upskilling our workforce is one of the major strategies for employers. Organizations and their leaders and employees are navigating an ever most complex and uncertain geo-pollitical and environmental context at a time of great technological advancement with AI. The WEF Future of Jobs report shows […]
Case Study : Developing Better Leaders Through Peer Group Coaching
How Peer Group Coaching Helps Emerging Leaders Learn and Grow Together Why this Matters Key insight from the journey: “Leadership isn’t learned by having all the answers. It’s learned by thinking through real challenges together.” Leadership Development programmes introduce useful models, tools and ideas. But the real challenge is helping leaders apply those ideas once […]
Case Study : Shifting Team Meetings From Calendar Events to Places of Real Collaboration
How Three Cross-Functional Teams Improved Their Meetings by Focusing on Both Tasks and Relationships Why this Matters Key insight from the journey: “The biggest difference between the team meetings wasn’t what happened in the meetings. It was how the meetings were designed before they even started.” Most team members spend a significant part of their […]
Case Study: Train-the-Trainer _ Practising What We Preach
Helping a Team of Team Coaches and Facilitators Learn Skillful Collaboration from the Inside Out Why this Matters Key insight from the journey: Michael Richardson, (Owner, Expertized BV) explained: “Before we can train our clients about the Skillful Collaboration approach, we need to experience it ourselves.” And one participant later reflected: “Sometimes the biggest growth […]
Case Study: Creating Alignment Across Seven Cross-Functional Teams
Clarifying Decision Authority, Priorities and Escalation Pathways Why this Matters Key insight from the programme: “Effective collaboration depends on knowing not only how decisions are made, but by who they should be made.” As organisations become more complex, leaders increasingly find themselves working across functions, countries and stakeholder groups. In these environments, collaboration often slows […]