Approaching and Engaging Partners in Collaboration

1. APPROACHING AND
ENGAGING PARTNERS IN
COLLABORATION
Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH
President and CEO Renown Health
Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics,
University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine

2. Case Study Presentation

3. Presentation Overview

5. The Process is Always the Same

6. Pattern Recognition How many
squares do
you see?
Is there
flashing in
the
squares?
Your mind
will play
tricks on
you!

7. Pattern Recognition

8. Shared Mental Model
“The perception of, understanding of, or knowledge about a
situation or process that is shared among team members through
communication.” –TeamSTEPPS®

9. The Process is Always the Same

10. The Key to Collaboration
Successful pattern identification sets the stage for successful and
innovative collaboration.

11. Collaboration Decision-Making
Perception/Data Gathering
Interpretation
Decision-Making
Action X
Get Help:
Ask a Question
Make a
Note
Do more
thinking.
(Pre-test
probabilities)

12. Decision-Making

13. Expert Decision Making:
• Certain Reponses are Favored-
Frequent, Recent, Serious
• Heuristics – rapid, experience
based problem solving-fixating
on the wrong pattern

14. The Process is Always the Same

15. Common Course
Ideally, we track with a conversation…
As the conversation moves, we incorporate, adapt, and
integrate information into our mental model of what we
know and understand.
The conversation
The response to the conversation
=
=

16. Going Off Course
The defect rate in our model
is caused by failures to properly track
the course of the conversation.
The response: failure to integrate
The conversation=
=

17. Never On Course
The response to the conversation
The conversation=
=
Sometimes, we’re off course right
from the beginning and it’s difficult
to get back on course.
Lack of a shared mental model
from the start often results in a
conversation that was never on
course to begin with.

19. Adaptive Leadership
The change that enables the capacity to thrive.

20. Understand the landscape and
interpret the potential…
Know the history before creating future change.

21. Time
Impact
What Collaboration Gets You:
•Addresses interactions/opportunities
•Assures greater impact
•Behaviors are specified
Typical Results
Slonim AD, Marcin JP, and Pollack MM. Outcomes in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Implications for Health Services Research and Patient Care. In: Fuhrman B
and Zimmerman J. Pediatric Critical Care 4th Edition Mosby 2011.

22. Mobilize and Intervene
Collaborative change occurs through experimentation.

23. Strategies for Adapting
.Collaborative interaction promotes innovation in adaptive strategies.

24. Let Mission Drive You

25. Understand Your Loyalty and Role

26. Know Your Biases

27. Manage Conflict Directly

28. Success!

30. Conference Application
• All here for specific reasons
• Same Conference; Different Outcomes
• Know your biases
• History
• Context
• Methodologies

31. Summary

32. THANKYOU!
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