Collaboration Software

Conduct Strategic Collaboration with an Efficient Process - Improve collaboration with a meta-process derived from an in-depth study of over 330 strategies, transformations, mergers, innovations, and change initiatives.

With the increase in hybrid working, leaders and managers are finding their go-to facilitation methods for strategic initiatives no longer work. The traditional techniques for leading teams in person aren’t available when some or all of the team members join online. The flow of conversation is broken, increasing the time it takes to discuss any single item. Tools for capturing opinions and ideas are limited to difficult-to-use online whiteboards and similar apps. Exhaustion sets in after multiple hours of staring at the screen in online meetings. Team leaders either give up or experience higher stress levels, making it difficult for teams to develop plans to reach their desired results.

Fortunately, now there is a new approach for teams to work remotely by conducting Strategic Collaborations. A Strategic Collaboration is a group working together to develop goals and plans to create new outcomes. Strategic Collaboration software and methods empower teams to better attain their goals with far less effort in a hybrid environment. Collaboration Architects are being trained in organizations throughout the world to facilitate teams using the Strategic Collaboration software.

Greater Efficiency

When used on a project, the Strategic Collaboration software makes it possible to surface opinions anonymously at each team members’ convenience. No meetings are required to discover what team members think, and where they agree or disagree.

Using the information from the virtual dialogue, assisted by AI, a Collaboration Architect pinpoints the essential conversations to have, leading to fewer meetings. The Strategic Collaboration software eliminates time spent in meetings rehashing the points where everyone already agrees and listening to war stories to support those points. This focus leads to a team proceeding from identifying a challenge or opportunity they need to discuss to having a plan in one-third the time compared to a traditional planning process.

More Inclusiveness

With Strategic Collaboration software, the number of people who can participate in a planning process is not limited to those who can conveniently gather in one place. This aspect is ideal for a hybrid work environment. A Strategic Collaboration method, rather than convenience, determines who the right people are to participate in a collaborative initiative. As a result, a team can always gather a sufficiently diverse set of perspectives for group decision-making. This inclusiveness and diversity of opinions lead to more plans with more support for smoother implementation.

Higher Quality Plans

The level of inclusiveness also leads to higher-quality plans because more perspectives are considered. Another cause of lower quality plans in a hybrid work environment is leaders and their teams burning out during the planning process while trying to apply traditional planning techniques online. When the team becomes exhausted, they declare that the plans are “good enough” rather than ensuring they are complete. With the efficiency of Strategic Collaboration in a remote or hybrid environment, the plans are fully completed and, therefore, higher quality. Finally, the advanced facilitation skills Collaboration Architects use result in plans that are more viable, more valuable, and more endorsed by the team when compared with those developed without the Strategic Collaboration approach.

The bottom line

With leaders and managers facilitating teams using ground-breaking Strategic Collaboration skills and software, your teams develop the highest quality plans with greater efficiency and inclusiveness. With better plans, your hybrid-working teams achieve their desired results.