Posts by Valerie Patrick
007- How to Work with Others to Tackle System Challenges
In this episode, Daniel Kreeger, Executive Director of the Association for Climate Change Officers, talks about the importance of working with others to tackle system challenges like adaptation to climate change by organizations and society. Dan provides examples of how organizations are tackling climate change and how a professional organization can provide support to professionals…
Read More006- How the Most Successful Knowledge Workers Work
In this episode, I describe a reference structure called the Knowledge Work Framework to serve as a checklist for work that requires ideas, thinking, creativity, and innovation to be successful. The framework acknowledges the importance of interacting with other people. Therefore, I conclude the episode describing the qualities of a socially intelligent leader. == Subscribe…
Read More005- Secrets to Enabling Collaboration in Your Team
In this episode, I describe a diagnostic tool called Team Collaboration Assessment. The tool provides a roadmap for a team to journey from where they are towards the high performance that is possible through effective collaboration. I conclude the episode describing the nine principles of collaboration and leading high-performance teamwork. == Subscribe to the Quadrant…
Read More004 – How Facilitation Stops Groups from Preventing Innovation and Change
In this episode, Bill Shephard, creative problem solving expert and professional facilitator for the Creative Problem Solving Group, talks about the role of facilitation in moving groups and organizations towards novelty and change. Facilitation provides the process leadership needed for groups to overcome the natural forces that hamper organizations from moving towards innovation and change.…
Read More003- Integrative Design for New Ways to Improve Building Performance
In this episode, Leslie Billhymer, an architect and lecturer at University of Pennsylvania, talks about reducing energy use by buildings which accounts for a third of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Like other tough challenges, this one is benefiting from a collaborative approach that Leslie calls integrative design. == Subscribe to the Quadrant…
Read More002- How Competitors are Joining Forces to Address Mega Challenges
In this episode, Andrew Winston, author of The Big Pivot, talks about the impact of the sustainability challenges we face as a society on companies. He also describes the types of radical collaborations that companies are embracing to join forces against threats to a sustainable life on this planet. == Subscribe to the Quadrant II…
Read More001- Research-Based Ways to Improve the Creativity of Groups
In this episode, Dr. Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, talks about his unique research of highly creative groups. While many have studied the creativity of individuals, the creativity of groups is important work because it takes collaboration to turn the creativity of individuals into innovation. == Subscribe to the…
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