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Col­lab­o­rais­ing Organ­i­sa­tions®

Believe it or not, there are busi­ness­es where employ­ees and cus­tomers start the day moti­vat­ed and fin­ish in good spir­its, engaged in stim­u­lat­ing con­ver­sa­tions. These com­pa­nies are suc­cess­ful and build tal­ents. They are fas­ci­nat­ing and draw our curios­i­ty.

The peo­ple who work in these com­pa­nies have a high degree of per­son­al moti­va­tion. Deci­sions are made on the spot and yet tak­en with care. Respon­si­bil­i­ty is assumed by those who real­ly know what they’re talk­ing about – in an enthu­si­as­tic atmos­phere where every­body is ded­i­cat­ed to dri­ving things for­ward togeth­er. Now who wouldn’t want to work here?

Ques­tions and chal­lenges

But how can com­pa­nies deliv­er when they are under such great pres­sure? Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal change have swept through them at break­neck speed, and big data and AI have changed the dynam­ic fun­da­men­tal­ly. How can they cope with con­stant sys­tem launch­es, suf­fo­cat­ing com­pli­ance regimes and a multi­gen­er­a­tional work­force with dif­fer­ent mod­els of liv­ing?

A pul­sat­ing organ­ism

We believe that busi­ness­es with a long-term ori­en­ta­tion must con­scious­ly and con­stant­ly reori­ent them­selves. We see organ­i­sa­tions as vibrant, pul­sat­ing organ­isms in which peo­ple play the lead­ing role. The con­cept of lead­er­ship and coop­er­a­tion in the new dynam­ic envi­ron­ment must be expressed clear­ly and under­stood across the com­pa­ny.

The qual­i­ty of rela­tion­ships and mutu­al trust is reflect­ed in the way indi­vid­u­als work with each oth­er. Con­se­quent­ly, devel­op­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion is a key lever on the path to a healthy com­pa­ny.

Col­lab­o­rais­ing

Col­lab­o­rais­ing brings togeth­er two move­ments that are usu­al­ly thought of sep­a­rate­ly: Col­lab­o­ra­tion – the con­scious act of work­ing togeth­er, where peo­ple con­tribute their per­spec­tives, strengths and respon­si­bil­i­ties rather than sim­ply oper­at­ing side by side – and Rais­ing, the mutu­al lift­ing up in which no one advances alone, but every­one grows togeth­er. By Rais­ing we explic­it­ly do not mean “high­er, faster, fur­ther”, but the rais­ing of qual­i­ty: of rela­tion­ships, of aware­ness for the whole, of an organ­i­sa­tion’s capac­i­ty to grow beyond itself.

Col­lab­o­rais­ing Organ­i­sa­tions there­fore devel­op not despite, but through the way peo­ple work togeth­er with­in them – here, per­for­mance aris­es through rela­tion­ship and dia­logue, not against them. How this word came into being – while walk­ing, some­where between an uphill stretch and a bend in the path – is a sto­ry we tell in our Trea­sure Trove.

For us, Col­lab­o­rais­ing is more than a term – it is a way of being. On the path towards a gen­uine sense of togeth­er­ness with­in a com­pa­ny, we see our­selves as co-pilots who think along, shape along and devel­op along. In this con­stant­ly learn­ing and un-learn­ing envi­ron­ment, peo­ple bring their strengths to bear and iden­ti­fy with the progress being made.

Col­lab­o­rais­ing stands for the shared build­ing of the next-lev­el organ­i­sa­tion. Ready for a first step?

“Rela­tion­ships affect our health and life sat­is­fac­tion more than any­thing else.”
This is the find­ing of the world’s largest study on hap­pi­ness

… in oth­er words, the qual­i­ty of rela­tion­ships is a deci­sive suc­cess fac­tor for com­pa­nies.

The strate­gic lifeblood of a com­pa­ny is direct­ly impact­ed by the sys­tem­at­ic devel­op­ment of col­lab­o­ra­tive and lead­er­ship skills.

Work­shops & Sem­i­nars

per­Styles

Con­vinc­ing through per­son­al­i­ty

You will receive feed­back on your impact on oth­ers and how you can utilise your strengths even bet­ter.

Sem­i­nar

What does my hand­shake mean in your cul­ture?

The perks and per­ils of inter­cul­tur­al encoun­ters — how to suc­ceed in inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Com­pa­ny-spe­cif­ic course for­mat

Col­lab­o­rais­ing Lead­er­ship

A devel­op­ment jour­ney to deep­er con­texts of lead­er­ship and col­lab­o­ra­tion.