We Should All Become Collaboration Designers

What does good collaboration look like? In sports, high-performing teams have a skilled coach, different tactics, and trust between all members of the team. Similarly, in the workplace, high-performing teams are guided by a skilled facilitator, use proven methods to achieve their desired outcomes, and maintain a high level of trust. These ingredients are fundamental to collaborative intelligence — a new systematic approach that connects teams, taking insights and ideas from possibility to reality.

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The spaces in which we interact, both physical and digital, deeply influence how teams collaborate and their success. Leading people today takes knowing how to craft an engaging work experience — whether that’s in-person, remote, or a hybrid of both. It takes knowing how to invite inclusive participation. It requires crafting experiences that predictably and repeatedly connect your people to a common space, to shared goals, and to a purpose that they believe in. This emerging skill is collaboration design — a thoughtful approach for facilitating conversations and enabling better collaborative experiences in our new ways of working. It's time we become collaboration designers: knowledge workers who embrace collaboration design to bring purpose and intention to the collaboration process.

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In this workshop, participants will learn how to cultivate visual thinking, develop relational intelligence and create psychological safety as critical elements of collaboration design. Our facilitators from Mural will build on a legacy of human-centered design, methods and facilitation expertise to move teams from ideas to action, enabling collaboration around the following themes:

• How are we going to solve problems together?
• How will we connect as human beings?

The workshop will showcase how collaborative intelligence has already been applied in various projects. During Mural’s recent rebrand, we worked with the world-class design agency, COLLINS. Core to the work was the tight collaboration between the Mural design team and the agency, requiring COLLINS to craft their process into a more transparent and inclusive flow.

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