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Learning Capture

"People don't really learn when you tell them something.  They don't even really learn when they do something.  They start learning, start creating new neural pathways, only when they have a chance to recall and reflect on what just happened." - Michael Bungay Smith

Creative Collaboration Workshops

  • For teams whose next step is to optimize the conditions for creativity, innovation and experimentation, by...

  • Transforming levels of trust and shared expectations 

  • Learning to get the best from each other, even under pressure when default behaviours resurface

  • Enhancing the qaulity of listening to create deeper bonds of empathy, insight and understanding

  • Upgrading team meeting culture, systems, processes and routines 

  • Evolving how feedback flows within the team for improved individual and team performance

  • Establishing a 'no blame culture' where people feel emboldened to take risks, learn, and take responsibility for continuous improvement

 

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3. Creative Collaboration Workshops

Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'.  They support established teams to re-energise, re-focus, and update their ways of working to continuously improve strategy, learning and performance.

1. Learn from living stystems.

The mechanistic age pushed mental models into our thinking that don't help living things thrive: "cogs", "spanners", "gas", "clockwork", and "well-oiled machines" are not animal, and are certainly not human.  As living organisms we are more similar to - and connected with - the natural world: plants, trees, ant colonies, bees, starlings, forests, ecosystems... 'Creative Collaboration' better mirrors behaviours modelled by woodland, insects and starlings in a 'murmaration'.

2. The free-flow of communication

In healthy systems, information flows; the more that relevant information is able to circulate through teams, threats can be avoided, decision-making is more robust, and changes can be adapted to more quickly.  This is why many successful organisations in the modern age strive to adopt the practice of 'slowing down to speed up.'

3. "Creative Controversy"

We've all sat in boring meetings.  Why are they boring? In my experience it's because people aren't saying what they really want to say - the moment that happens, things start to get interesting!  Many books on leadership and teamwork talk about the importance of both trust and healthy conflict, psychological safety and candour.  'Creative Collaboration' exists in that space where there is enough safety to take meaningful risks.

4. Experimentation and fear of failure.

A well-known organisational psychologist used to say that can't really understand a system until you try to change it.  This is why, with the best will in the world, so many  strategies - and change programmes, in particular - fail to deliver lasting results.  Once again we find that the path to health is through a creative tension of action and reflection, of theory and practice. 'Creative Collaboration' requires a discipline of making plans together 'off the pitch', but then going and putting them into practice to generate real world feedback.

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If you'd enjoy a conversation to explore the question "What would good look like?"

as a result of working together, let's talk.

George Herbert, CEO, Hobbs House

"Will brought great energy and wisdom as he engaged with our senior team prior to the event and led us through the day... and it was notable how he brought out all of our strengths for us to collectively generate our shared goals and strategy.”
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