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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...

CoCreative
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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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...

CoCreative
May 5, 20221 min read
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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...

Russ Gaskin
Jul 8, 20202 min read
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Systems Innovation Panel Discussion
A virtual panel discussion on "Social Labs and Collaborative Approaches to Systems Change" with Russ Gaskin of CoCreative, Stephanie...

Melissa Darnell
May 13, 20201 min read
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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
Apr 7, 20201 min read
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Designing Virtual Meetings for Clarity and Momentum: A Case Study with Mosaic
A story-based case study on effective virtual collaboration.

CoCreative
Mar 24, 20208 min read
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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
Jan 7, 20201 min read
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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
Nov 25, 20191 min read
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Collaborative Impact & Systems Change
This session archive is from Ashoka's Series on New Leadership and was recorded in May, 2019.

CoCreative
May 23, 20191 min read
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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...

Russ Gaskin
Apr 1, 201812 min read
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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, 20173 min read
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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, 20172 min read
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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 9, 20173 min read
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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, 20171 min read
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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, 20172 min read
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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
May 3, 20172 min read
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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
Mar 18, 20174 min read
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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
Nov 9, 20168 min read
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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
Jun 23, 20166 min read
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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,...

CoCreative
Oct 1, 20151 min read
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