Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetings In Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today s broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes. With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what s possible at work. You ll also find: How to build playbooks of collaboration methods How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization levelA can t-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you ve been looking for to help teams innovate together.

Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetingsIn Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today's broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes.With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what's possible at work.You'll also find:* How to build playbooks of collaboration methods* How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams* How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization* Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization levelA can't-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you've been looking for to help teams innovate together.

Introduction: Innovating Is Collaborating xiiiChapter 1 Collaboration in Principle 1Connecting the Genius of Your TeamsBeyond Meeting HygieneCollaborate SmarterPrinciples of CollaborationWelcome to the Renaissance of TeamworkChapter 2 Relational Intelligence 19The Human Aspect of CollaborationTrust Falls Won't Solve Your ProblemsThe Collaboration MindsetTeam NeedsRelationship GoalsChapter 3 Collaboration Design 35Making the Collaboration Experience DeliberateWho Can Fix Bad Meetings?What Does a Collaboration Designer Do?How Can You Make Collaboration Work Better?Declaration of InterdependenceUnderstanding the Collaboration ExperienceModeling Collaboration ExperiencesChapter 4 Collaboration Methods 55Playbooks for Working TogetherGuided AutonomyThe Games Teams PlayStructures and PatternsCombining MethodsThe LUMA SystemMaking Collaboration Methods an Everyday PracticeChapter 5 Collaboration Spaces 75Creating the Ideal EnvironmentThe Spaces We Make for CollaborationDesigning Collaboration SpacesThe Jobs of Common SpacesDynamic, Visual, and Playful SpacesAdaptive SpaceChapter 6 Modes of Engagement 91Thinking about Time and Space of CollaborationModes of CollaborationEngagement TypesWork Is Not a Place--It's What You Accomplish TogetherWhat Is a Meeting, Anyway?Chapter 7 Collaboration Insights 111Analyzing Collaborative CapacityA 360-Degree View of CollaborationEvaluating TeamsAssessing Collaboration across the OrganizationBeyond the OrganizationChapter 8 Collaboration Strategy 131Transforming Teamwork at ScaleThe ROI of CollaborationWays of Driving Change across an OrganizationAll Management Is Collaboration ManagementCollaboration LeadershipAfterword: Imagine It All Came True 150Acknowledgments 151About the Authors 152