My Collaboration Principles
Engagement is a key to implementation success; development discussions that include all relevant stakeholders create the sense of engagement and ownership that will bring initiatives from paper and into reality. And by the way, more brains are better than a few brains…
My Collaboration Principles
We both want to get the very best outcomes from our collaboration.
Gaining shared clarity about how we best work together is well worth the effort of an initial discussion.
These are the principles that in my experience produce the most value for your performance development project:
We are partnering and we co-create
The best solutions start with a partnering mindset and emerge in a co-creative process.
We allow the synergies between our various areas of expertise to come out and inspire the new thinking necessary to get you to the next level. Openly sharing information, hopes and doubts is integral to partnering.
We are possibility-oriented and aspirational
You’re looking for solutions, and beyond this you have a vision of the performance level you ideally want your team and organization to operate at.
Together, we first explore and define what that ideal state looks like. Exactly how will you know that you’re there? What criteria can we meaningfully use to define the value that you are looking to create? With this end goal in mind, we look at possibilities to get there – as efficiently as possible.
We are open-minded and we value learning
We must be open-minded if we want new solutions. The best solutions emerge in an open process where we allow ourselves to question the status quo and its underlying assumptions. We let go of thinking we already know and ask questions we don’t already have an answer to. We value feedback along the way, also when it is not what we hoped to hear.
We are strategically inclusive
Involvement is a key to implementation success; development discussions that include all relevant stakeholders – also customers and users – create the sense of engagement and ownership that will bring initiatives from paper and into reality.
Also, we invite diversity in mindset and experience into the conversation for more ideas and resilient solutions.
We are practical, valuing functionality & implementation
Keeping things as simple as possible, we will build a dynamic road map towards your Collaborative performance dream scenario.
Always keeping implementation in mind, we are responsive to changes (also when inconvenient) and remain mentally agile, flexible. Mindful of the gaps that often lead to implementation failure, we are honest, candid, and proactive in our approach.
