Our free monthly webinar series
Not Drowning, Collaborating!
Learn how to manage, reframe and benefit from those tough times, when collaboration is at its most challenging
How to Reset Your Relationships
Learn when and how to use some simple process tools to get your collaboration back on track
How to Share Control
Learn how and why to share control and do less, to improve your collaboration
Top Tips for Finding Solutions
When working together to co-create solutions, what process allows you to make progress fast?
A deeper dilemma dive
Learn how to explore your situation more deeply with your collaborators, focussing on relationships and other hidden traps
3 Steps to Authentic Collaboration
Learn these three simple steps to keep your collaboration on the right path
A Better Way to Find Solutions
Sometimes our focus on finding the answer gets in the way of innovation. Join this session to explore an exciting collaborative approach.
The Cornerstones in Practice
Effective collaboration requires an integrated practice, bringing a holistic approach with a range of skills. Find out what ‘integrated collaboration’ looks like.
Thinking Like a Collaborator
Authentic collaboration requires a shift in thinking from doing ‘to’ to working ‘with’. This webinar explores how to help the mindset shift.
The Essential Skills of Collaboration
To collaborate effectively requires a particular suite of skills and tools. This webinar shows you how to build your collaborative skillset and toolkit.
How do I know when to collaborate?
We introduce a simple framework to help answer this question. Learn how to focus your collaborative energy where it can do the most good.
Love your Silos
We explore how you can check your relationships and assumptions to embrace rather than fight your silos
Collaboration, Contracts and Silos
We take a fresh look at how to encourage collaboration across your contractual relationships, with three fundamental principles.
Build Trust and Get Collaborating
If trust is the oil in the collaborative machine it is important to know how to build it to keep the wheels turning. Join us for tips and tools.
Collaborate with the unwilling
If you are struggling to get engagement and energy from your collaborators, this session is for you. Join us for practical tips and ideas to get you collaborating.
A Simple Map for Collaborators
Introducing a simple map to guide your next collaborative project. If you have a collaborative journey to take, this webinar is for you.
Build the Case for Collaboration
Join us to see what makes a compelling case for funders and decision-makers so that you can get collaborating.
What we are doing
Our collaborations
Project-based collaboration
We support project managers delivering collaborative projects through facilitated workshops and ongoing strategic advice.
Coaching
We provide a high-quality coaching program for leaders and team members wanting to build their collaborative skills and mindset.
Collaboration System
Our Power of Co System is a unique resource to guide collaborators, with step-by-step instructions, tools, tips and templates.
Our collaboration tools
The Diamond of Decision-Making
A guide to group decision-making from the legendary Sam Kaner
The Problem-Solver’s Guide
A guide to working with collaborators to find potential solutions together
Make Assumptions Visible
When collaborating it is important to get those assumptions on the table
The Trustometer
This tool helps you make visible the degree to which trust is present among your collaborators and allows you to measure progress.
The Power of Vulnerability
Is a reluctance to be vulnerable undermining your collaboration?
Practice Curiosity Tool
We often like to talk, explain and convince more than we like to listen, yet collaboration needs mutual curiosity. Are your collaborators practicing curiosity?
Find Our Question Tool
One of the keys to success is building a shared sense of how everyone sees the problem to be faced together. Have you heard the question from each perspective?
Deciding when to collaborate
Take a look at this simple framework for thinking through when to collaborate and focus your collaborative energy where it can do the most good.
Hold Positions Aside
When strongly held opinions and different views are in the room, how do you encourage listening?
Co-design Guide
An overview of co-design with some examples of what it can look like in practice.
The Collaboration Fairytale Guide
Is your organisation living in a fairytale when it comes to authentic engagement and true collaboration?
The Trojan Horse v Trojan Mouse
A neat framework from some great complexity thinkers to help you find creative ideas and things to try.
Respectful Inquiry
This tool helps you stay curious and focussed on learning from each other, even when people have firmly-held views.
Assess my Mindset Tool?
Authentic collaboration requires us to work ‘with’ others rather than do ‘to’ them, but shifting the thinking to work ‘with’ isn’t always easy to do. Are you thinking collaboratively?
Assessing our Need to Collaborate
A simple checklist of thought-provoking questions to help you consider the need for authentic collaboration.
Client Quote of the Month
“Using the ‘Find My Question’ tool to get an understanding of where everyone is coming from and what their values are helped to build an understanding of all of the perspectives on what the issue is. This was key before moving forward with deciding on the next steps.”
Our Book Shop
Would you like to know more about how to co-create solutions to your
complex problems while building your ‘collaborative muscle’? Read On.
The Power of Co: The Smart Leaders’ Guide to Collaborative Governance
The Power of Co provides real evidence of the benefits of collaboration as well as a theoretical framework on which to build the capacity of organisations and individuals to collaborate more often and more effectively to address dilemmas and find solutions that stick.
Important note for purchasers
When you buy either the hard copy or e-book we will receive an email notification and then pop a book in the post or send you a download link as appropriate. We try hard to be very responsive but won’t always see those emails immediately. Please be patient and know that we will definitely get your book to you.