Team Collaboration Cycle

How to collaborate at work

1. Identify Team Members:  wether using a selection tool like LUMINA Spark or drawing straws, get your team sorted out first.  Who's committing or needed on the team?

2. Set Creative Environment:  Do not underestimate the power of your surroundings.  Create a powerful space for ideas to be shared and secured.  A positive, inspiring space.

3. Identify Topic:  Don't convolute a conversation with too many topics. Choose the primary topic and stick to conversations that focus on this topic.

4. Create The Questions:  What's important for your team to work on?  Invite everyone to take a few minutes and ponder what questions might need to be answered and post them for the team to focus on.

5. Capture The Content: Ensure that teams members write down their ideas on a virtual share board or sticky notes to be put on a display board below the relevant questions.  Ensure that all team member voice/responses are entered.

6. Organize What Was Shared:  Find themes, identify gaps that will move the team forward.  This can be done after a meeting or ideally with the team.  

7. Assign Specific Tasks:  Be sure to have tasks aligned with members and deadlines to promote progress with a follow up method.

Team Collaboration

Collaboration is defined as 'the action of working with someone to produce something'  The issue is that learning how to collaborate with others is a learned skill.  it is within the topic of healthy relationship skills.  
Set intentions to learn, practice and implement this skill.  

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