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Being collaborative
Creating a collaborative business environment is becoming ever more critical to the success of organisations. To achieve global competitiveness, manage scale and risks, and overcome regulatory hurdles, CEOs are revisiting strategies to emphasise collaborative opportunities. Organisations increasingly seek to remove boundaries and build networks of inter-locking value chains which increase resilience and lower costs. In such a connected global economy the ability to collaborate successfully is a key strategic enabler.
But can people who are the most successful at climbing the ladder simultaneously be asked to lead a strategic collaboration? After all, this requires putting the interests of others alongside, and even at times ahead of, their own short-term objectives.
Are some people more inclined to collaboration than others? Do some teams show a natural propensity for collaboration while others seem to resist it? Is it possible to lead a team or an organisation so that collaboration is engendered and fostered?
These are the questions GBPA set out to answer in this Discovery project, and to develop a practical set of tools members can use to assess their own level of ‘collaborativeness’.
This Discovery report introduces GBPA’s Logical Levels of Collaboration Framework™, which groups the drivers and inhibitors of collaboration into four logical levels: Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Capability; and Capacity and Environment.
To enable assessment of collaborativeness in each of the three areas - individual, team and leader - GBPA has developed a practical set of tools that take an objective snap-shot of the current state.
The individual tool provides the user with an indication of their natural propensity and skills to be collaborative. The team tool and the leadership tool offer a more situational view relevant to the performance of teams and leaders respectively.
The tools are designed to assess where the barriers to increasing ‘collaborativeness’ are on the Logical Levels of Collaboration Framework™, and this then facilitates effective interventions that are likely to lead to meaningful change.
To access and use the GBPA Collaborative Assessment Tools, view Collaborative tools