Overview

This session will…

• Explore the science and key practices that drive sustainable collaboration and high-performance culture. 
• Illuminate key personal and interpersonal strengths and challenges associated with forms of communication and interaction. 
• Highlight how stress, pressure, and perceived risks trigger human instincts, counterproductive biases and defensive reactions that disrupt cooperation, collaboration, and change. 
• Establish key building blocks of trust, and practices for navigating difficulties including mistrust, trust violations and conflict.
• Explore the role of communication and social behaviours for achieving optimal outcomes together, and the impact of miscommunication, misunderstanding, and communication breakdowns.
• Outline the role of Psychological Safety for supporting a culture of high-engagement, collaboration, innovation, change agility, and wellbeing.
• Help people adopt a ‘win-win’ mindset and methods for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes through collaborative relationships and teamwork.

Outcomes

Key outcomes people walk away with include:

• A solid understanding of values and practical approaches for building sustainable relationships and a culture of collaboration. 
• Increased awareness of how trust, mutual respect, inclusivity and cooperation lead to better interpersonal and team interactions and outcomes.
• Clarity on human defences that can trigger behaviours and communication that prove counterproductive to collaboration. 
• Insights into the role and impact of different communication methods in interpersonal settings.
• New ways to talk about how to work together towards collectively beneficial outcomes.

Recommended Duration

3 hours includes immersive activity and facilitated dialogue into relationship and communication dynamics.