Show notes
Teams who work well together are able to be more creative. In this episode, learn how the Seven Norms of Collaboration can help your team work better together and be more innovative and creative.
What You’ll Learn
* The Seven Norms of Collaboration
* How to help your team begin using the Seven Norms
Resources
* Thinking Collaborative – find Seven Norms of Collaboration Assessments and other tools
* International Podcast Day (Sept 30) and contest
* How to Write a Review in iTunes
The Weekly Challenge
Select one of the Seven Norms of Collaboration to focus on for the week. See how well you can do each day with your selected norm. What happens? What changes do you notice with your team and with other relationships?
Upcoming Workshops by Amy Climer
From Conflict to Resolution: Managing and Mediating Conflict at Work – November 6, 2015, Milwaukee, WI
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #017: Seven Norms of Collaboration
Amy Climer: Hey everyone. Welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast episode #017. On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the Seven Norms of Collaboration and how you can use these to build your creativity.
To start with, let’s talk about what is a norm? What do I mean by the Seven Norms of Collaboration? Essentially, a norm is something that your team naturally or normally does. For instance, you probably have different groups of people that you spend time with. You probably spend time with your family, maybe there are people at work you spend time with. Maybe you have a group of friends, maybe you have different groups of friends that you spend time with and chances are that within those different groups of people, there’s different behavior that’s considered normal or acceptable amongst those groups. There may be certain things where when you’re hanging out with your family, it’s completely appropriate to do, but then when you’re at work, maybe not so much. You have different norms in those different groups.
I think one example that comes to mind is sarcasm. There are some groups of people both family, friends, work or whatever where sarcasm is very normal, where they tend to tease each other a lot and they have fun with those sarcastic comments. And, there are other groups where that’s not welcome, that’s not appropriate, that’s just not the culture within that team, within that group. The thing with norms that can be so powerful and so valuable is that they can be intentionally developed. Today, we’re going to look at the Seven Norms of Collaboration and these are based on the research of Bob Garmston and Bruce Wellman who were both involved in Adaptive Schools, which is an organization that helps schools and school districts become more collaborative and adaptive to change. They’ve actually since changed the name of the organization to Thinking Collaborative because they don’t work just with schools anymore. Now, they are working with all sorts of organizations, really around the world actually, and their work is very powerful. This is all researched based and what they found is that these seven norms are the normal behavior that highly collaborative and successful teams have. Collaborating is often about conversation.
What You’ll Learn
* The Seven Norms of Collaboration
* How to help your team begin using the Seven Norms
Resources
* Thinking Collaborative – find Seven Norms of Collaboration Assessments and other tools
* International Podcast Day (Sept 30) and contest
* How to Write a Review in iTunes
The Weekly Challenge
Select one of the Seven Norms of Collaboration to focus on for the week. See how well you can do each day with your selected norm. What happens? What changes do you notice with your team and with other relationships?
Upcoming Workshops by Amy Climer
From Conflict to Resolution: Managing and Mediating Conflict at Work – November 6, 2015, Milwaukee, WI
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #017: Seven Norms of Collaboration
Amy Climer: Hey everyone. Welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast episode #017. On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the Seven Norms of Collaboration and how you can use these to build your creativity.
To start with, let’s talk about what is a norm? What do I mean by the Seven Norms of Collaboration? Essentially, a norm is something that your team naturally or normally does. For instance, you probably have different groups of people that you spend time with. You probably spend time with your family, maybe there are people at work you spend time with. Maybe you have a group of friends, maybe you have different groups of friends that you spend time with and chances are that within those different groups of people, there’s different behavior that’s considered normal or acceptable amongst those groups. There may be certain things where when you’re hanging out with your family, it’s completely appropriate to do, but then when you’re at work, maybe not so much. You have different norms in those different groups.
I think one example that comes to mind is sarcasm. There are some groups of people both family, friends, work or whatever where sarcasm is very normal, where they tend to tease each other a lot and they have fun with those sarcastic comments. And, there are other groups where that’s not welcome, that’s not appropriate, that’s just not the culture within that team, within that group. The thing with norms that can be so powerful and so valuable is that they can be intentionally developed. Today, we’re going to look at the Seven Norms of Collaboration and these are based on the research of Bob Garmston and Bruce Wellman who were both involved in Adaptive Schools, which is an organization that helps schools and school districts become more collaborative and adaptive to change. They’ve actually since changed the name of the organization to Thinking Collaborative because they don’t work just with schools anymore. Now, they are working with all sorts of organizations, really around the world actually, and their work is very powerful. This is all researched based and what they found is that these seven norms are the normal behavior that highly collaborative and successful teams have. Collaborating is often about conversation.