A 90-minute virtual workshop
Collaborating across teams, services, and with a variety of stakeholders and decision-makers is increasingly important. It enables problem-solving to take place based on real issues and challenges and is a means to finding shared and effective solutions, making improvements to performance. It breaks down barriers and supports relationships and accountability. Yet collaboration can be a challenge, for a variety of reasons. This workshop will help.
The workshop outlined here is a flexible ‘template’ that can be delivered over different lengths of time, depending on need, numbers and the best method for those attending. At its leanest, a 90-minute virtual session can be facilitated to drill down and focus on one issue to solve. The workshop aims to promote and develop a values-driven workplace that enables everyone involved to flourish and work in an aligned and congruent way with the organisation’s values..
- Identify and address specific challenges from different perspectives
- Understand the drivers and reality of your operating environment
- Understand a shared vision and how our values shape the ways of working the organisation needs
- Understand the strengths, skills and capabilities available individually and as a team or department
- Deal with challenges through collaborative problem-solving and action-planning
- Promote a solution-focused way of working and apply the core values to strengthen collaborative ways of working
The expert trainer
Amanda Dudman is an extremely popular trainer, facilitator, coach and consultant with an in
depth understanding of what it means to work in the public and VCSE sectors.
Session overview
Session one
- Welcome, today’s objectives, introductions
- Hopes and concerns and how we will work together
- Optional – leader/manager input to frame the day and set expectations
- Getting to know each other
- Group exercise: sunshine and rainclouds (challenges and what we have in common) using the organisation’s values as a framework
Session two
- Over to you
- Team marketplace (activity)
Session three
- Open Space Event
- Delivered and facilitated in the commonly known and used ‘open space’ stages, initiated through self-directed gathering around areas for discussion and problem-solving to find solutions together:
- Using ‘we will’ statements
- Clarity on shared vision, values and ways of working
- Using the organisation’s values to frame action statements
Session four
- Commitments, actions and next steps: sharing our commitments to collaborate: group or whole team action-planning exercise
- Review and reflection on how collaboration and shared problem-solving has had an impact and how we will remain accountable to each other for our success
- Facilitated review activity