Is your team collaborating or just cooperating?
If you’re dealing mostly with straightforward or complicated problems, cooperating—where individuals help each other on their own tasks—might just work for you. But when facing complexity, true collaboration becomes essential, producing outcomes far beyond the sum of individual efforts.
As AI gradually takes over many simple and complicated tasks, we humans are increasingly left to tackle complex challenges. This shift makes collaborating more important than ever. At The Human Atelier, we bring collaborative ways of working that harness the collective intelligence of your team, unlock the power of diversity, and ensure all voices are heard.
“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Facilitation is key to unlocking your team’s collaborative potential by creating the space, time, and conditions for people to think, create, and solve problems together. It makes meetings truly effective, unleashes your team’s decision-making process, and organises work more efficiently. To help you build facilitation skills, we’ve attached a handout of a simple yet powerful facilitation technique: 1:2:4:All.
This technique also works brilliantly in virtual environments. The geographical or time dispersion of your team shouldn’t hinder collaboration; quite the opposite—it can work to your advantage. Asynchronous collaboration allows your team members to contribute when they’re at their best, reducing interruptions and maintain deep focus. At The Human Atelier, we use tools that enable us to collaborate (like VideoAsk & Loom) wherever you are and whenever you’re ready.
Collaborative ways of working are built on the principle of trust. As a leader, your role evolves towards allowing and creating this trusted environment. Interestingly, a new theory suggests that genuine collaboration is the secret of our success as a species—the “survival of the friendliest”.
If you’re interested in exploring how to cultivate true collaboration within your team, please click the button below for a non-binding exploratory call with us.
From The Human Atelier — wishing you a journey filled with collaboration and shared success.
Warm regards,
Santiago Mayo
Founder. Human Architect
THE HUMAN ATELIER