Radical Collaboration is a three-day highly interactive workshop designed to teach people five very practical and immediately useful skills essential to building more effective collaborative, relationships between individuals and within teams and organizations. The skills are:

• Collaborative Intention
• Truthfulness
• Self-Accountability
• Self-Awareness
• Interest-Based Problem Solving and Negotiating

The workshop objectives:

• Creating high-trust collaborative environments
• Reducing the cost of conflict in dollars, time and lost creativity
• Turning adversarial relationships into partnerships
• Making working relationships more productive

Radical Collaboration is for anyone whose circumstances have the potential for disharmony, misunderstandings and conflict, and who would like to improve their effectiveness. It is also particularly helpful for individuals responsible for creating more collaborative environments within a team or organization.

It has been presented to groups as diverse as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brio Toys of North America, the Mountain States Employers Association, The Boeing Leadership Center, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, National Cancer Institute, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Workshop Fee:  $1,200.00

Following is an outline of the workshop

Day 1 Morning

We start the day with a simulation exercise designed to give people some immediate information about their own collaborative style. Approximately 30% of the time is spent in the team simulation and 70% is spent doing a detailed debriefing session with the entire class. The debriefing includes issues such as collaborative vs. competitive strategies, communication styles, trust building, intra-team issues and commitment processes.

Day 1 Afternoon

Introduction to Five Essential Skills for Collaborative Success/ Collaborative Intention & Communication Skills: This includes a brief lecture about the five essential skills: Collaborative Intention, Truthfulness, Self-Accountability, Self-Awareness and Awareness of Others, and Problem Solving & Negotiating, and then participants practice collaborative intention and communication skills.

Defensiveness: This is a very interactive module designed to give participants more skill at dealing with their own defensiveness and replacing them with more effective strategies when they get defensive.

Day 2 Morning

Interest-Based Problem Solving (usually continues over a working lunch)This session teaches Interest-Based Negotiation followed by practice using a business simulation.

Day 2 Afternoon

Introduction to FIRO Theory: We administer the FIRO Element B instrument allowing participants to learn about their own preferences and possible rigidities in their behavior.

Day 3 Morning

Self-Accountability: Participants learn to be more accountable and practice the interest-based approach for a second time.

Day 3 Afternoon

Feedback Exercise: Participants give and receive feedback to help them become more aware of how they are perceived by others. Planning Back Home: Participants use all their new skills to work on a real problem or conflict that is current in their life. Centering exercise and end of workshop.

The workshop will be held at

Ventureplex
7235 Bonneval Road
Suite ##100
Jacksonville, FL 32256

Only 25 miles from the Jacksonville International airport

September 12-14, 2012

Daily schedule is 9:00-5:00

Cost: $1,200

Nearby lodging:
Jacksonville Marriott
Hampton Inn Jacksonville
Radisson Hotel Jacksonville

For additional information please call, email or use the contact form below.

Celeste Blackman
650 208-4959
celeste@greenzoneculture.com

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