Collaborative Intelligence - The New Way to Bring Out the Genius, Fun, and Productivity in Any Team

Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetings
 
In Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today's broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes.
 
With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what's possible at work.
 
You'll also find:
* How to build playbooks of collaboration methods
* How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams
* How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization
* Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization level
 
A can't-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you've been looking for to help teams innovate together.

List of contents

Introduction: Innovating Is Collaborating xiii
 
Chapter 1 Collaboration in Principle 1
 
Connecting the Genius of Your Teams
 
Beyond Meeting Hygiene
 
Collaborate Smarter
 
Principles of Collaboration
 
Welcome to the Renaissance of Teamwork
 
Chapter 2 Relational Intelligence 19
 
The Human Aspect of Collaboration
 
Trust Falls Won't Solve Your Problems
 
The Collaboration Mindset
 
Team Needs
 
Relationship Goals
 
Chapter 3 Collaboration Design 35
 
Making the Collaboration Experience Deliberate
 
Who Can Fix Bad Meetings?
 
What Does a Collaboration Designer Do?
 
How Can You Make Collaboration Work Better?
 
Declaration of Interdependence
 
Understanding the Collaboration Experience
 
Modeling Collaboration Experiences
 
Chapter 4 Collaboration Methods 55
 
Playbooks for Working Together
 
Guided Autonomy
 
The Games Teams Play
 
Structures and Patterns
 
Combining Methods
 
The LUMA System
 
Making Collaboration Methods an Everyday Practice
 
Chapter 5 Collaboration Spaces 75
 
Creating the Ideal Environment
 
The Spaces We Make for Collaboration
 
Designing Collaboration Spaces
 
The Jobs of Common Spaces
 
Dynamic, Visual, and Playful Spaces
 
Adaptive Space
 
Chapter 6 Modes of Engagement 91
 
Thinking about Time and Space of Collaboration
 
Modes of Collaboration
 
Engagement Types
 
Work Is Not a Place--It's What You Accomplish Together
 
What Is a Meeting, Anyway?
 
Chapter 7 Collaboration Insights 111
 
Analyzing Collaborative Capacity
 
A 360-Degree View of Collaboration
 
Evaluating Teams
 
Assessing Collaboration across the Organization
 
Beyond the Organization
 
Chapter 8 Collaboration Strategy 131
 
Transforming Teamwork at Scale
 
The ROI of Collaboration
 
Ways of Driving Change across an Organization
 
All Management Is Collaboration Management
 
Collaboration Leadership
 
Afterword: Imagine It All Came True 150
 
Acknowledgments 151
 
About the Authors 152

About the author

Mariano Battan (mural.co; San Francisco, CA) is the CEO and co-founder of MURAL, a digital, visual collaboration platform used by thousands of leading companies like Google, IBM, Intuit, SAP, and Atlassian have deployed MURAL.
Jim Kalbach (mural.co; Jersey City, NJ) is a noted author and instructor in design, innovation, and customer discovery, and Head of Customer Experience at MURAL. He is the author of three successful books: Designing Web Navigation (2007), Mapping Experiences, 2nd Edition (2020), and The JTBD Playbook (2020).

Summary

Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetings

In Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today's broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes.

With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what's possible at work.

You'll also find:
* How to build playbooks of collaboration methods
* How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams
* How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization
* Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization level

A can't-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you've been looking for to help teams innovate together.

Product details

• Authors: Mariano Battan, Mariano (Mural) Kalbach Battan, Mariano Kalbach Battan, Jim Kalbach, Kalbach Jim, Suarez-Battan, M Suarez-Battan, Mariano Suarez-Battan
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781119896036
• ISBN: 978-1-119-89603-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Business & management, Kollektive Intelligenz, Wirtschaft u. Management, Allg. Wirtschaft u. Management