Collaborative Thinking: Driving Teams Toward Better Results
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Collaborative thinking is the ability to bring diverse mindsets and include multiple points of view to create a holistic solution to a complex challenge.
Collaborative Thinking is a process of thinking inclusively. It is about the ability to bring diverse mindsets and include multiple points of view to create a holistic solution to a complex challenge.
Why are Collaborative Thinking Techniques important in today’s business environment?
Collaborative Thinking is a muscle that needs to be exercised across each waking minute. Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in the modern world, as we become more connected around the globe. With the advancements in technology, collaboration has become a more productive way of doing things. Collaboration happens when teamwork taken to a higher level.
Collaboration not only equals a happier workforce; it represents an educated one. This is because it naturally inspires a sense of community within an organization, meaning that employees feel almost like they are a part of a family.
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Additionally, collaboration allows employees to learn from each other and the bosses. Collaboration among peers or professionals in a particular field has become more common and given great results since the rise of social media has encouraged and almost forced, the business world to become more personalised, rather than full of bureaucratic procedures. Getting any product or service into the market is the result of efforts of a much larger set of people, organizations, places and processes than before.
It is in this context that Collaborative Thinking skills are mandatory to adopt and master.
Collaborative Thinking is a widely researched topic with academic frameworks that guide real world application.
Moreover, teamwork enables employees to gain knowledge from both their colleagues and supervisors. The prevalence of collaboration among peers and experts in various industries has significantly increased with the advent of social media, pushing the business world towards a more personalized approach rather than relying on rigid bureaucratic processes. The successful introduction of any product or service to the market now involves a much larger network of individuals, organizations, locations, and procedures than in the past. Therefore, the ability to think collaboratively is essential for individuals to excel in this environment. Collaborative Thinking is a well-studied concept with established academic models that can be effectively applied in practical situations.
What are the traps if Collaborative Thinking training is absent?
When Collaborative Thinking skills are absent in a company, it is easy for employees to lose objectivity and rigor in finding solutions, participate equally in debates, and encourage employees to live the company vision or demonstrate authenticity or even showcase brand values.
What does Bodhih’s Collaborative Thinking training cover?
At Bodhih, Collaborative Thinking skills is a flagship offering. At its core, this workshop focusses on various tools to achieve Collaborative Thinking, and how thinking collaboratively can foster creativity, how it can open up doors to unlimited strengths that were not discovered earlier, and how collaborative thinking can develop employee skills, solve problems faster and innovate deeper.
Kicking off with class exercises and presentations, Bodhih’s Collaborative Thinking training program
educates participants on how to mind-map the variables the basics. Through ice-breaker activities, learners get a sense of their individual problem-solving mindset and Collaborative Thinking orientation.
Through deep diving and candid discussions, the session thereafter works on a self-assessment instrument that explores various problem-solving styles. This facilitator led audit enables a fresh comprehension of individual OC (orientation to change) and MP (manners of processing).
The next session opens up the class to the world of organizational and business goals review. With facilitators industry knowledge, the class is given inputs to the company’s vision and mission and the strategic linkages to achieve these through collaborative thinking.
Through group discussions, video presentations, the spotlight is then brought on a problem-solving mindset that is critical to be understood. Learners are instructed on the various approaches to take ownership of a problem, looking beyond the obvious, and break their limit of belief systems. Explained in detail through powerful industry studies the tenured facilitator underlines the need to be able to identify the barriers that prevent Collaborative Thinking to happen within organizations.
Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in the participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Collaborative Thinking training program – Prioritizing
This session uses facilitator-led discussion, group activity, and exploration techniques to prioritize – individual, group exercise, and team prioritizations. At this juncture, it is important for participants to articulate the top challenges and how to combat these.
At Bodhih, Collaborative Thinking workshop is a popular session that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.
The session draws richly from research done around Collaborative Thinking best practices and published literature on team’s collaborative successful case studies.
The heart of the Collaborative Thinking program lies in the powerful session that highlights team culture mapping.
The insightful session delivered through case study and scenario explorations educates learners to identify ideal group behaviour styles, for decided goals and outcomes. These results are then used by the facilitator to lay out the foundations of the psychometric review, its meaning and interpretations, individual and group reports that brings a spotlight on the nuts and bolts of collaborative thinking.
How would you gain from India’s best Thinking Collaboratively workshops at Bodhih?
Bodhih customizes its Collaborative Thinking training programs along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.
In addition to the ADDIE model, the Collaborative Thinking and problem solving sessions takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.
The edge in Bodhih’s Collaborative Thinking classes comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Collaborative Thinking skills by embedding effective techniques for mapping individual thinking orientation and looking at roadblocks and generating options to mitigate these barriers.
What is Bodhih’s promise on Collaborative Thinking training workshops?
Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Collaborative Thinking skills talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, how employees are quicker in employing collaborative thinking techniques, resolving differences quicker, and imbibing large understanding to diverse mindsets.
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