Collaboration

Achieving more together

Developing collaboration

We support you in bringing collaboration between teams and organisations to life. With clear processes and a sensitive eye for relationships, we help you to prepare the common ground for collaboration and create structures that enable long-term impact.

What does collaboration mean?
Our understanding

 

 

 

We are greater than and greater through the sum of us.”
Heather McGhee

For us, collaboration is more than just working together for a specific purpose. It means overcoming institutional boundaries to work together towards greater goals. In a world characterised by complexity and polarisation, collaboration is a source of strength, learning and shared resilience.

But collaboration is also challenging: expectations need to be calibrated, tensions between individual and collective needs need to be navigated and workable agreements need to be made. Good collaboration is built on trust, communication and a shared set of values - while remaining flexible enough to meet the needs of everyone involved.

Collaboration is the art of making diversity productive. It makes it possible to develop solutions across borders for social challenges that no one could achieve alone. But this requires courage and the will to engage with the dynamics between people and organisations.

A collaborative attitude means letting go of competitive thinking and instead focussing on mutual learning and growing together. It requires openness and clarity - both in the organisation of relationships and in the structures and processes that support collaboration. Collaboration thus becomes a source of innovation, resilience and social change.

Our offer

We support you in designing your collaborations - from brainstorming to realisation:

  • Stakeholder dialogues:
    We help you to identify relevant stakeholders, moderate joint meetings and support you in the strategic development of partnerships.
  • Network development:
    Together we develop the „common ground“ of your networks, work out common interests and frameworks of action and accompany you in decision-making processes.
  • Team development and conflict resolution:
    We moderate processes that strengthen relationships, clarify misunderstandings and build trust. We rely on creative large group formats and effective feedback mechanisms.
  • Structure and control:
    We work with you to design decision-making and coordination processes that reflect your goals and your culture - from loose networks to intensive collaboration.

Examples of our work

  • Supporting interface and decision-making processes between two co-operating teams at Greenpeace Germany.
  • Cross-provider strategy development in Berlin neighbourhoods with creative future workshops and reconciliation of interests.
  • Process support in setting up the Rückenwind initiative for civil society actors in eastern Germany.

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„Common Ground“ – Eine Arbeitshilfe, um die gemeinsamen Grundlagen und Ziele eurer Kollaboration zu definieren.

Kollaborations-Kontinuum – Dieses tool unterstpütz Euch dabei, abzustimmen wie „dicht“ oder „lose“ eure Zusammenarbeit sein soll.

Change Essentials: Kollaboration und Netzwerke – Ein umfassender Onlinekurs zu Formen und Methoden der Kollaboration.

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Reflections in the foam

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