Learn New Ways to Cooperate
It’s possible to work in new ways
- but it takes more than tools to really change the way we work together.
I wish we dedicated as much attention to the design and the code of our human interactions in the real world as we dedicate to new tools for interacting in the digital domain!
Whereas our repertoire to digitally collaborate dramatically enhanced, our protocols to interact in the real world haven’t gotten an update since the days of the old Greeks:
We are missing protocols that productively include everyone in a meeting.
We lack means to effectively use the collective intelligence of those present and rituals for joint problem-solving.
We postpone decisions or default to processes that are rather Luis XIV than Laloux.
We become sarcastic and begin to blame or hate our co-workers.
We check out of the real world and immerse in our devices whenever possible - even or even more so in meetings.
As a result of this disconnect we hate meetings and other group situations, and yet we can’t escape them. Collaboration becomes ineffective, inefficient and is sometimes even making us sick.
Please don’t be resigned and regard the time with others as a waste of time.
Try out new structuring elements and formats. Level the playing field and leave the tiresome routine. Re-design the human in-between, look for what works and what unites and get a new quality of interactions. Become playful, allow yourself to have fun when together in group – it’s possible!
You don’t need to start from scratch. Have a look at Liberating Structures, a repertoire of well-tested methods to re-arrange the way you relate to one another, made available open source. Y
our intention to design a new quality of human interaction is key and it fits with any of these entry points. So tap in and re-design the way you interact with others!
You are ready to stop habits and behaviours that stifle innovation, imagination, and people’s ability to problem solve? You want to get a kick-start for re-inventing your meetings?
On March 19/20, 2020 we’ll immerse for 2 days into Liberating Structures, contemporary ways to engage & include all, solve problems and have fun together. Join us!