From NDC Oslo 2015 - Workshop with Denise Jacobs, Doc Norton, and Carl Smith
Even high functioning teams occasionally have a hard time making decisions or coming up with creative ideas. There are times when the conversation seems to drag on long after a decision is reached. There are times when we have too many people involved in the discussion or the wrong people involved. There are times when we're not sure whose the actual decision maker. And there are those times when we just seem to be out of synch with each other. This creative collaboration workshop provides tools that help resolve all of these issues. Come have some laughs with Denise, Doc, and Carl, play with new friends, and learn one or two new techniques you can try at home.
30. Collaboration
Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
I will Explain
my reasoning
for this
decision
I will Consult
with others
before making
this decision
I will Agree
with others on
this decision
I will Advise
the decision
maker
I will Inquire
about the
decision
31. Collaboration
Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
I will Explain
my reasoning
for this
decision
I will Consult
with others
before making
this decision
I will Agree
with others on
this decision
I will Advise
the decision
maker
I will Inquire
about the
decision
Joe Alice Thom, Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet, Frank
32. Collaboration
Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
I will Explain
my reasoning
for this
decision
I will Consult
with others
before making
this decision
I will Agree
with others on
this decision
I will Advise
the decision
maker
I will Inquire
about the
decision
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet, Frank
33. Collaboration
Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
I will Explain
my reasoning
for this
decision
I will Consult
with others
before making
this decision
I will Agree
with others on
this decision
I will Advise
the decision
maker
I will Inquire
about the
decision
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet, Frank
Alice, Thom,
Arnie, Frank
Susan, Art Janet, Joe
34. Collaboration
Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
I will Explain
my reasoning
for this
decision
I will Consult
with others
before making
this decision
I will Agree
with others on
this decision
I will Advise
the decision
maker
I will Inquire
about the
decision
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet, Frank
Susan, Thom
Alice, Arnie,
Frank, Art
Janet, Joe
36. Explain Consult Agree Advise Inquire
Idea One
Idea Too
Idea 3
Idea IV
JosephThomas
Anna
AnnaJoseph
Anna Rachel
Rachel Thomas
Joseph
Joseph Rachel
Rachel Thomas Anna
Thomas
We want the entire room to line up according to their birthdate, by day and month. Here’s the catch. There is no talking throughout this entire exercise. You have 5 minutes.
You have 60 seconds to form groups of (approximately) 10 people each.
3 Thing in Common 10 Minutes
You have 5 minutes for figure out the three most unique or interesting things that you all have in common.
Facilitator Notes:
Ice breaker. 5 minutes gets people beyond the obvious.
Spend 5 more minutes asking for the most interesting thing from each group
Take one card each. On that one card, write one or two words representing an item or service
Examples -
Item: Pizza or Jigsaw Puzzle
Service: Tailoring or Dry Cleaning
Wait for them to write cards
Now we’re going to use fist to five voting to choose our product.
Pick two cards, like Pizza and Tailoring (click) and vote on Pizza Tailoring as your product.
All three or higher is your product
Count of three - 1-2-3 (click)
We got a 2. Let’s try another combination (click)
Another vote - 1-2-3 (click)
This time we got all 4s and above (click)
Pizza Dry Cleaning is this team’s product
Work together to create a list of items that need to be done in preparation for the conference.
Work together to create a list of items that need to be done in preparation for the conference.
Starting with the person closest to the stage, select the card you feel is the single most important card in the stack. Going to your left, each person select the single most important card remaining in the stack.
Find a partner in your group.
Look at your two tasks and agree to split 7 priority points between them. This is strictly a comparison of these two items, not the entire list.
Could be 0 and 7 (click), 1 and 6 (click), 2 and 5 (click), and so on (click)
Exchange Cards
Find a new partner
Score those cards
Do this until each card has 5 scores
Total the scores and sort the cards by total with highest first (Click)
This is an HR policy concern, Joe is VP of HR and Alice is Of Counsel. We can’t have both a Consult and a Collaborate.
Alice agrees to step down to advise, trusting that Joe will take her concerns into consideration.
This is a key financial decision. Susan is our CFO and has run the analysis needed. Alice is Of Counsel, Thom is CEO, Arnie and Frank are department heads.
The team took a look at the chart and asked Susan to step up. Once done, Alice, Arnie, and Frank gladly stepped down.
Using note cards, build a grid with the 5 contract roles along the top (click)
Then place your top 4 or 5 ideas along the left side (click)
Finally, each of you is to place a card with your name in the appropriate column/role for each idea. (click)
Discuss amongst yourselves and adjust until you have a conflict free contract.