Day 1: Establishing Collaboration Around Shared Outcomes

Behavior of Collaborative Leaders

• Engage expertise while retaining decision responsibility
• Show humility before deeper specialist knowledge
• Protect quieter voices from being overlooked
• Assess leadership behavior during meetings

The Shared Result

• Frame goals requiring contributions from everyone
• Define successful value for final beneficiaries
• Expose conflicts among individual performance goals
• Configure a collective measure of achievement

Roles and Handoff Structure

• Clarify each discipline's contribution to results
• Identify work and information transfer points
• Agree responses when handoffs become delayed
• Map collaboration surrounding one assignment

Day 2: Interaction, Trust, and Productive Disagreement

Balanced Team Participation

• Choose engagement methods suited to decisions
• Prevent dominant voices controlling group dialogue
• Collect individual perspectives before open discussion
• Test several participation techniques in sequence

Everyday Rules of Trust

• Honor small commitments with reliable consistency
• Share information before requesting colleague assistance
• Acknowledge mistakes without exchanging personal blame
• Draft practical behavioral rules for teams

Managing Productive Conflict

• Define contested issue and actual source
• Compare interests before debating fixed positions
• Select solutions protecting the shared outcome
• Simulate disagreement between professional disciplines

Day 3: Execution Coordination and Collaboration Challenge

Rapid Coordination Routines

• Use brief and purposeful standing meetings
• Make dependencies and blockers visible
• Assign one owner for urgent actions
• Produce a simple team coordination board

Decision Rights Within Teams

• Define who contributes and who resolves
• Apply explicit criteria when opinions differ
• Record decisions and remaining objections
• Practice a team decision protocol

Collaborative Challenge Simulation

• Solve work requiring distributed specialist expertise
• Manage changing requirements during active delivery
• Review leadership effects on collaborative behavior
• Commit to improvements for actual team

• Group exercises exposing actual participation and coordination patterns
• Role and handoff maps constructed around shared work
• Conflict and decision simulations with behavioral review
• An applied challenge assessing collaboration quality under pressure