Collaborate

What is collaboration?

The active engagement of other people with the aim of working together to achieved shared outcomes.

Essential for:

• All types of transformation.

Knowledge

• How to build and maintain positive relationships.
• How to create safe and welcoming spaces to enable positive engagement.
• Understanding of cultural differences.
• Understanding of the principles of positive psychology.

Skills

Able to:

• Frame common goals: Define goals that are clear and mutually beneficial. 
• Map and engage stakeholders: Work out who is impacted by, or impacts, the delivery of the goal(s) and seek to engage them in the process of delivering them. 
• Actively listen and show interest in the perspective of others to develop understanding of their motivations and needs.
• Communicate effectively: Share information openly, ensure continual feedback.
• Show appreciation: Ensure that people know their time and contributions are valued.
• Demonstrate respect: Valuing every contribution and encouraging diversity of perspectives.
• Build on ideas and inputs: Enabling contributors to work together and build on each other’s ideas.
• Model positive behaviours, including mirroring, reciprocal reinforcement and demonstrating receptiveness to multiple perspectives.
• Be empathetic: Ensure people feel heard, demonstrate understanding of their feedback, express curiosity.
• Act with authenticity: Being yourself, including maintaining boundaries and being constructively challenging when appropriate.
• Resolve conflicts effectively: Coalescing people around common goals.
• Act with emotional intelligence: Recognise, understand, and manage your own emotional state, and seek to understand the emotional responses of others.

Behaviours

• Reliable
• Responsive
• Positive
• Respectful
• Accountable
• Supportive 
• Collaborative
• Act with integrity
• Decisive 
• Authentic
• Empathetic
• Resilient
• Open to feedback
• Team-orientated
• Adaptable and pragmatic
• Committed to continual learning