Collaborative Spaces, Control-Freak Leaders, and When You’re Done Prototyping

Our Community Call covered three great topics.

How to create a collaborative space for staff experiencing rapid organizational changes.
How to address a leader that wants to control everything and doesn’t allow good collaboration.
How a team knows when they can move on from their prototype to starting to implement a solution.

00:03:44 — First question: How can we create a supportive and collaborative space for staff?

00:04:52 — Start with a corner with a wall, table and chairs for the team to come together for activities

00:05:52 — Make sure the space has post-it notes, markers and blank paper

00:07:30 — Activities to do with the team to foster collaboration and relationships

00:07:40 — How to do the Collaborative Cycle

00:11:36 — Modify the space to be less institutional and more representative of the teams’ interests

00:13:00 — The team should do something special together in the space

00:14:18 — Have people share their hobbies with each other

00:15:15 — Summary of those five points

00:16:30 — Mark asks about labelling the degree of difficulty of design methods

00:18:34 — Emma shares how she steps back to allow others to contribute

00:20:01 — Sarah shares how they are creating spaces for collaboration in her large organization

00:24:25 — Kendra asks how remote and distributed teams can better collaborate

00:28:01 — Second Question: How do we manage a an over-controlling manager or supervisor

00:34:53 — Sarah shares how she brings overly controlling managers along in the activity

00:37:52 — Have the manager speak with another manager who has become more collaborative

00:39:12 — Roza emphasizes the importance of feedback in person and tied to actions

00:41:00 — Speak with someone before a meeting to brief them on their role

00:41:21 — Roza submits a question, “How to move from generating insights to synthesis and prototyping?”

00:42:02 — Emma shares supervisors that don’t engage and then influence AFTER the meeting

00:43:42 — Third Question: How can a team transition from insights to reframing the problem, ideation and shaping?

00:50:18 — Regina shares that this reminds her of the IDEO Deep Dive

00:53:04 — Diana asks if there is a structure for knowing how to move on from prototyping

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