Collaboration – a word increasingly used, a goal set by organizations of all types – governments, for profit, and non-profit – yet what is it?
You know collaboration is a popular concept, but do you know when you’re being collaborative? Do you do it well? Does your team? How about your organization? Signs of the desire to collaborate increase daily and the challenges on our planet that call for high level collective actions are indisputable. So let’s help one another know how to collaborate and how to do so intelligently! This is an invitation and a challenge we hope you’ll join!
We’re launching the discussion; and you know the only way for it to be truly collaborative and intelligent is by bringing our collective wisdom to the front. Your voice is needed! So join the blog discussion!
The Collaborative Growth Team Model demonstrates the process to building collaborative intelligence through effective team work. Team’s can measure their functioning and strategically improve through using the TESI® and you can learn more through The Emotionally Intelligent Team.
Let’s explore root concepts that lead to Collaborative Intelligence.
What is Collaborative Intelligence?
Collaboration involves working with one or more people in order to achieve a resilient result. Intelligence is the ability to learn and apply facts and skills; we especially consider a person or an action intelligent when the ability is highly developed. Collaboration is a composite skill that emerges from the masterful use of your ESE skills. The members of a football team collaborate when they huddle and agree that they will each do their part to execute a particular play. In the middle of the play, except in the face of an unexpected opportunity, the fullback won’t decide to change the play because he’d prefer to run the ball rather than block! Team loyalty is unquestioned.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence is the name of a discipline which studies the physiological and behavioral aspects of effective emotional communication. It could be called the art of influence, because any time we need to persuade someone to follow a specific course of action we need to influence their thinking and decision-making processes. This, it turns out, is accomplished through how effectively we interpret their emotional signals and respond with our own.
Over the past 20 years psychological researchers have developed scientifically validated and reliable assessments for measuring the accuracy of our emotional perceptiveness and how skillfully we send and receive emotional energy patterns. Extensive research has now proven how critical the so-called “soft skills” of managing human relationships are to the bottom line, and inaugurated a new era of emotionally-based personal and professional development.
We refer to emotional and social effectiveness (ESE) and refer to it as the ability to recognize and manage your own emotions and to recognize and respond effectively to those of others. It includes understanding your social community from the “big picture” point of view and the ability to direct change as well as adapt to change.