Opening Insights: Today?
Everyone today is concerned and talking about the problems and challenges that technology has brought to our cultures today. Many people are researching the problems and seeking answers. They form groups of people who think they are working together, but are they really?
Informational Insights: Discovering Collaboration
Much like school or college work groups traditional collaboration is often like the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
One Sunday night a small group of people from around the world, from different places and backgrounds came together. The focus was on a common goal- the empowerment of bottom-line employees from a $2.6 Billion transportation company. The employees came together wanting to better their work environment and advance their careers. They came from different cultures, backgrounds, challenges and educations, yet within the PWI Collaboration Laboratory (PWI Co-Lab™) diversity and adversity is experienced as inclusion rather than judgement and exclusion.
Possibilities for Consideration: PWI Co-Lab
In the PWI Co-Lab™ the employees came together, a group of individually flawed individuals, yet with a common goal together they worked together to implement true collaboration. They created and built a PowerPoint presentation to share with co-workers and invite them into the PWI Co-Lab™ process, focusing on 4 simple steps:
- Demonstrating Our Willingness to Organize and Grow
- Demonstrating Our Ability to Learn and Apply Modern Technology
- Demonstrating Our Ability to Deliver a Better Way of Doing Business
- Presenting to Management the Entrepreneurial Ability to Take Charge of Problems and Deliver Solutions
Together this group of millennials supported by PWI Co-Lab™ staff worked together to experience the power of the PWI Co-Lab™ in action implementing the principles:
- 5 Absolutes for Perception
- 5 Principles of Dot Thinking
- Connecting Dots
- Rearranging Dots
- 5 Is for Effective Communication
The PWI Co-Lab™ resulted in empowerment and leadership-followship discover for participants, contributors and PWI Co-Lab™ Staff.
- Everyone was focused on the common goal and not just being right
- Talks turns into creative collaboration (getting the best for ALL stakeholders)
- Differences and diversity were perceived as the greatest strength
- Data was transformed into insight by the empowering force of a trust culture
- Co-Labs re-instate self-authority, develop trust and keep the team in Collaboration
Add Your Insight: Be the Change, Join With?
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI