How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate - Keith Ferrazzi by Keith Ferrazzi | 12:00 PM October 24, 2012 I have worked on many teams in which we dutifully did our jobs, and the group fulfilled its objectives. And then I have worked on other teams in which everyone energetically collaborated with one another, and the results were spectacular. Not only did we surpass our goals, we also thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from that process as individuals. In other words, there’s a world of difference between merely working together and truly collaborating with one another. Achieving true collaboration — in which the whole is definitely more than the mere sum of the individual parts — is difficult in any environment. Adjust for size. Don’t be afraid of social media. The chipmaker Xilinx, for instance, has reported an increase in engineer productivity by around 25% thanks to social media tools that encourage and enable employee collaborative activities. Play games. Train for collaboration. Have role clarity but task uncertainty.
untitled PKM in 2013 “The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces.” - Thierry de Baillon Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. But what we loosely call knowledge, using terms like knowledge-sharing or knowledge capture, is often just an approximation. Knowledge When we use our knowledge to describe some data, such as what we remember from an experience or our summary of a book, we convey this knowledge by creating information, even though writing it down is not perfect. Becoming knowledgeable can be thought of as bits of knowledge partially shared and experienced over time. Seek : Sense : Share Capturing knowledge, as crudely as we do, is just a first step. Seeking is finding things out and keeping up to date. Sensing is how we personalize information and use it. Innovation PKM may be an individual activity but it is also social.
Zeitgeist Rama: Archive Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment Keywords: Virtual collaboration, virtual collaboration skills, virtual collaboration barriers. Introduction Virtual Collaboration Teams (VCTs), generally defined, are groups of individuals, geographically dispersed, that work together using collaborative technology (e.g. chat rooms, e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, etc.) in order to accomplish organizational goals (Brake, 2006; Cottone, Pieti, Schiavinato, Soru, Martinelli, Varotto, & Mantovani, 2009; Fruchter, Bosch-Sijtsema, & Ruohomaki, 2010; Suduc, Bizoi, & Filip, 2009; and Zhang, Tremaine, Egan, Milewski, O’Sullivan, & Fjermestad, 2009). Many organizations use VCTs because they are inexpensive, independent of time and space, more efficient, more effective, and are better able to share information, than face-to-face teams (Eom, 2009; Muntean, 2009; Suduc, Bizoi, & Filip, 2009; and Zhang et al., 2009). Relationship Building Skills Trust Familiarity Environment and Context Diversity Communication Skills Simple Language Ambiguity
untitled Need Help Asking for Help? We sometimes think asking for help is a sign of weakness. Actually, I’d argue that it’s really a sign of courage. Being vulnerable takes courage. Sometimes you don’t need to ask. Be Ready to be Asked : “How Can I Help?” You need an answer. You need a list a of solid diverse, valuable possible actions people can perform to help that will help your mission. Think about what people have that you value. So be ready to take up their offer. This is harder than it sounds, hence the need for a list. Create Your “How You Can Help Me List” The answer comes with preparation. In Listly’s case here’s some of the items on our list: Size Your Asks Just be aware that some “asks” take more time or more commitment or more trust. I also think its unwise to under utilize an ask. I’ve found it really valuable to think before you answer. Don’t ask for too much. Don’t feel awkward asking questions in response to the offer. Some tasks can’t be done twice. Why Will People Offer?
Stigmergy Kind people have stigmergically translated this article into German, French, and Spanish. This article is part of a series now incorporated into : ‘Binding Chaos’. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. A personality based system can never allow for mass collaboration on a global scale without representation such as that seen in organizations like the United Nations. Currently, the typical response to a situation which requires an action is to create a noun, in the form of a committee, commission, organization, corporation, ngo, government body, etc. Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. The alternative to competition has traditionally been cooperation. Cooperation and consensus based systems are usually dominated by extroverted personalities who make decisions to control the work of others and are justly resented by those doing the actual work. Hierarchical System Consensus Hierarchy Stigmergy Nodes The future Like this: Like Loading...
Canal Azul 24 Collaboration Success Wizard Creating successful geographically distributed collaborations. The Collaboration Success Wizard is an on-line diagnostic survey for geographically distributed collaborations. The survey probes factors that may strengthen or weaken the collaboration. The Wizard provides both personal and project-level reports to help build successful and productive collaborative projects. We are actively seeking participants! Once a project is approved to participate, we send invitation e-mails to all the project members. And yes – it’s free! At the end of the survey each participant can see a personalized individual report that contains feedback based on their answers and our research. If multiple members of the same project complete the Wizard, we are willing to provide a report to the group about the overall character of the project. This is our research. The Wizard is based on over 20 years experience studying scientific collaborations. An application form is available through the link below. Apply Now!
untitled 26-28th November 2012, Adelaide, Australia Read the post-event report here. The field of social innovation is rapidly expanding - and the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) is keeping pace - brokering new collaborations and becoming ever more global. Over the past 5 years, the annual SIX Summer Schools have brought together leading social innovation thinkers and practitioners from across the world to explore some of the key issues facing the field – such as scaling, innovation in a time of crisis, and social innovations in specific contexts like cities. Now that we have a deeper understanding of the process of social innovation, and the methods and tools that are being used all over the world, its time to step back and reflect on how we move into the next phase of growth and development, and avoid some of the problems and pitfalls that happen to fields as they gain momentum. This summer, we plan on doing a deep dive Down Under. Our numbers are restricted.
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Collective intelligence as a field, instead of focusing on a methodology, focuses on a set of questions, a set of phenomenon about those questions. Collective intelligence, as the name implies, is about the phenomenon of intelligence as it arises in groups of individuals—whether those individuals are individual people or whether they are organizations, companies, or markets.
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