What bees and chickens can teach us about collaboration

A little inspiration from collaborative bees and chickens.

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How about sharing the platform to communicate?

Sharing information is integral to engagement. So is sharing the platform.

Checking in

I’ve been doing a lot of checking in lately. Airlines. Hotels. And with groups who want to collaborate. You have to check in with a group but it doesn’t have to be like a ‘hippy trippy’ display of feelings and emotions.

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Sweet choices in community and stakeholder engagement.

What does dessert have to do with collaboration with community or stakeholders? It proved a great recipe for a deep conversation with a group recently.

Road sage or road rage. Conflict and choices.

Two near misses on my bike last week got me thinking about how we respond to conflict in groups.

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One Australian way to shift patterns and power in groups

Flipping who acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which a group is meeting can help to shift the power from the facilitator to participants.