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Trying to collaborate but faced with new challenges? Try regrouping and flipping your approach...

sabina strachan

Dec 17, 20213 min read

Trying to collaborate but faced with new challenges? Try regrouping and flipping your approach...

What can you do if you face unforeseen challenges that could derail your collaborative project? ‘Lou’ and ‘Jamila’ are college lecturers...

Virtual collaboration. Part 1: Collaborative culture...

sabina strachan

Dec 23, 20203 min read

Virtual collaboration. Part 1: Collaborative culture...

How do you make the switch from in-person collaboration to virtual? In the first of this two-part blog we meet ‘Jervaise’, a legal...

What will enable collaboration? Part 2: Recognition and reinforcement...

sabina strachan

Aug 1, 20202 min read

What will enable collaboration? Part 2: Recognition and reinforcement...

How do you make collaborative culture a norm? A leader needs to push through the cynicism they often encounter and resist pressure to...

What will enable collaboration? Part 1: Policies, standards and processes...

sabina strachan

Mar 3, 20203 min read

What will enable collaboration? Part 1: Policies, standards and processes...

Often leaders say they want a collaborative culture but sometimes struggle with how to make it a reality. This blog is a first look at...

How do I facilitate collaboration? Three top tips.

sabina strachan

Jan 31, 20202 min read

How do I facilitate collaboration? Three top tips.

What’s your experience of trying to facilitate collaboration? What were the challenges you faced? Were you able to overcome them? In this...

Want to collaborate but going nowhere fast? Try a different approach

sabina strachan

Dec 5, 20192 min read

Want to collaborate but going nowhere fast? Try a different approach

Have you ever tried to work with others to solve a problem or achieve a common objective and struggled to reach the shared goal? If that...

Why collaborate? Collaborate to inspire...

sabina strachan

Sep 5, 20193 min read

Why collaborate? Collaborate to inspire...

What are the benefits of collaborating for me, my team and our organisation? How would it change how we do things now?

Skills for collaboration – the essentials

sabina strachan

Jun 27, 20193 min read

Skills for collaboration – the essentials

Working collaboratively to create a new solution to a challenge can be challenging in itself. The fundamental qualities, characteristics...

How can I influence our culture so that it becomes more collaborative?

sabina strachan

May 6, 20193 min read

How can I influence our culture so that it becomes more collaborative?

If you are in a team or lead a unit or activity that is essentially a 'pocket' of collaborative working inside an organisational...

Creating collaborative culture takes leadership – what does that actually look like?

sabina strachan

Apr 26, 20192 min read

Creating collaborative culture takes leadership – what does that actually look like?

The key to creating a collaborative culture is leadership. Leaders have the power, influence and resources to change an organisational...

How do you steer clear of collaboration pitfalls?

sabina strachan

May 15, 20183 min read

How do you steer clear of collaboration pitfalls?

There are some common blind alleys, wrong turns and pitfalls you can face on any 'collaboration journey'. This blog is all about...

How do you break through barriers to collaborate? Part 1

sabina strachan

Apr 16, 20183 min read

How do you break through barriers to collaborate? Part 1

If the issue you're trying to resolve is best done so collaboratively and there is a collective will to achieve shared outcomes, then you...

How do you create and sustain a collaborative culture?

sabina strachan

Mar 19, 20182 min read

How do you create and sustain a collaborative culture?

'Collaboration' is a buzzword. We talk about it a lot but are we doing it? Do you operate in a 'collaborative culture'? Or has it been...

sabina strachan

Mar 5, 20182 min read

How collaborative are you?

Whether or not a collaboration will be effective ultimately depends on the people involved. And that starts with you. So, how...

Do you need reasons to collaborate? Eureka moments and so much more...

sabina strachan

Feb 26, 20182 min read

Do you need reasons to collaborate? Eureka moments and so much more...

A key benefit of collaboration is the ability to come up with the best solution by working together. There is so much more to gain...

Let's collaborate! But do you know what it means?

sabina strachan

Feb 9, 20182 min read

Let's collaborate! But do you know what it means?

We're not all on the same page when it comes to collaboration. Getting the definition straight is a good place to start to become an...