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Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices
This era of disruption requires us to take on deeper systemic challenges. As changemakers, how do we embrace failure as an inevitable...
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CoCreative
- May 5, 2022
Collaborative Innovation: What It Is, How It's Different & What It Takes
This session is a spicy and brief introduction to the Collaborative Innovation Approach that serves as the foundation for the...
Russ Gaskin
- Jul 9, 2020
6 Patterns in Collaboration
When it comes to people’s approaches to collaboration, there seem to be three general schools of thought: The “Collaboration-is-a-giant-m...
Melissa Darnell
- May 13, 2020
Systems Innovation Panel Discussion
A virtual panel discussion on "Social Labs and Collaborative Approaches to Systems Change" with Russ Gaskin of CoCreative, Stephanie...
CoCreative
- Apr 7, 2020
Virtual Meetings for Clarity and Momentum
Moving your meetings and convenings online? We often assume that online meetings mean disengagement and boredom but some of our most...
CoCreative
- Mar 24, 2020
Designing Virtual Meetings for Clarity and Momentum: A Case Study with Mosaic
A story-based case study on effective virtual collaboration.
CoCreative
- Jan 7, 2020
Four Agendas for Leading Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
Collaborative Innovation is our process model and an integrated set of concrete tools to effectively lead powerful change with...
CoCreative
- Nov 25, 2019
Leveraging the 5 Critical Design Tensions In Collaborative Innovation
Do you wish you had a way to transform stuck-ness and confusion into innovation and engagement? How can you help people "see together" so...
CoCreative
- May 23, 2019
Collaborative Impact & Systems Change
This session archive is from Ashoka's Series on New Leadership and was recorded in May, 2019.
Russ Gaskin
- Apr 2, 2018
It's Not Collaboration as Usual...
We don't strive to be different in our approach to collaboration, yet people are often surprised by the seemingly counterintuitive...
CoCreative
- May 12, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #1: Diverging & Converging
Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and you think that the group is really starting to realize something that they hadn’t understood...
CoCreative
- May 11, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #2: Checking Back
Checking Back is about occasionally returning to "upstream" parts of our work to ensure that our current activities are aligned with our...
CoCreative
- May 10, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #3: Leveraging Tensions
Creative Tensions are natural features of collaboration. They appear anytime people try to work together—and the more complex and...
CoCreative
- May 6, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #5: The Design Process
Innovation is often perceived as a neat and orderly process, but it’s actually messy and unpredictable, and the desire for it to be...
CoCreative
- May 5, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #6: Working Concurrently
People often assume that work needs to happen in a linear, sequential way or that everyone needs have a say in all parts of the work....
CoCreative
- May 4, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #4: Spiraling
We spiral all the time at CoCreative. No, that doesn’t mean we’re losing it, or that we're stressed out. It means we are constantly...
CoCreative
- Mar 19, 2017
A New Roadmap for Collaboration
[Here for the Roadmap? Download it here.] On a rainy spring day last April, I was sitting at my desk having an intense phone conversation...
CoCreative
- Nov 9, 2016
12 Tools to Foster Alignment & Collaboration
Here's a kit of simple tools that we often use to help minimize resistance and polarization in groups so they can get and stay aligned in...
CoCreative
- Jun 24, 2016
Overcome Sustainability Challenges By Forging Alliances: An Interview with Russ Gaskin of CoCreative
CoCreative partner Russ Gaskin was interviewed by Christopher Skroupa of Skytop Strategies on how companies can more effectively...
CoCreative
- Oct 1, 2015
Assessing Your Collaboration's "Operating Model"
In a recent article on Tamarack Institute's website, we shared 3 Tools and 3 Tips for Assessing Your Operating Model. Sometimes,...
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