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Collaboration Compass Guide

The Collaboration Compass Guide has been created to provide a further break down of the compass, actionable steps and recommendations for you to take to develop individual and collective capacity in the 4 action domains.

Playbook

Peer Learning Playbook

A guide to implementing peer learning, based on the collective RISE experience of initiating and supporting peer learning in organisations for over a decade.

Short Guide

Working with Group Dynamics

We aren't that good at speaking about the dynamics between us in groups, it can be uncomfortable. This wheel can help support better conversations.

Short Guide

Problem Solving Cycle - Divergence and Convergence

This guide introduces different ways of working with different types of problems; looking at the key differences between complex and complicated problems and how to approach them.

Thought Paper

How the Pandemic has impacted organisational culture

In this paper, we are looking at how the pandemic has impacted organisational culture, and what we can do to pay attention to culture as it shifts and evolves in particularly uncertain times.

Short Guide

Inquiry and Listening as key skills for communication

This short guide introduces these two complementary and important skills and suggests some ways to practice fine-tuning them.

Thought Paper

Attempting to understand Organisational Culture

It's time to change how we think about and approach culture change. Culture change is often spoken about as something that can be planned, executed, and finished; we're not so sure, here's why.

Webinar

Rethinking Feedback

We discuss and practice another way of thinking about giving and receiving feedback where the focus is on how we make sense of our own and other's decisions and patterns of behaviour

Short Guide

Presence

In our busy lives we are often so focused on doing- ‘getting stuff done’, achieving tasks, meeting deadlines -that we pay little attention to how we are being.

Thought Paper

Competing in an Era of Disruption

‘Disrupt or be disrupted’ seems to be the business mantra of today. This succinctly conveys the prize for those businesses that can maintain their competitive advantage in the midst of uncertain, volatile, complex, and ambiguous times.

Webinar

Exploring Business Bullshit

In this webinar, business leaders and consultants discuss the plague of business bullshit we experience in our work.

Short Guide

The Basics of Working Virtually

As many more people have recently learned, a lot is possible when we connect through video conferencing and it doesn't have to be second best to meeting in person. Here we have some tips for helping virtual work enable collaboration.