Collaboration Overview
For BFNow Self-Study Module 5
[This is part of the BFNow Self-Study section of this site. For more about this section, please look at About BFNow Self-Study and BFNow Self-Study Orientation.]
This module focuses on collaboration by which I mean working
by choice
with others
towards a shared goal.
It could be your day job. It could be a volunteer activity. It could be a task that is done in 15 minutes. It could be the work of a lifetime.
These last three modules of the course are more outward, interpersonal and accomplishment-oriented than what we have done so far. This module focuses particularly on the “with others” part but in the context of “towards a shared goal.” The following two modules will focus more on accomplishing that shared goal.
If you’re currently involved in some type of collaboration – anywhere from a primary relationship to a work or volunteer team – consider sharing some or all of this module’s pages with your partners/co-workers so that your group could use the content of the pages as a starting point for evolving your own collaborative process. Use your judgement about which pages to share (they many not all be relevant to your group), with whom and how fast to share them. You might want to slow down to an page per week and give your group time to really work with the content of each one. Whatever you do, I’ll be interested to hear how it works out!
If you don’t have appropriate other people with whom to share this module’s content, that’s OK. Just get familiar with the tools and the territory so that you’ll be ready to use the tools when the time is right.
Key Concepts and Terms
Here’s this module’s set. These are part of the shared language we are building for the network. Many, but not all, of these are also in the titles of the explorations:
collaboration
common ground
timely, wise, supported, efficient
consensus, consent
leadership
diversity
group immune system
We will also be building on concept from the presentations and previous modules, including:
system diagrams (System Literacy presentation and Module 4)
frameworks (a general term for worldviews, belief systems, mental models, ideologies, sets of working hypotheses, paradigms, etc. that I introduced in hOS Literacy, Part 4)
Optimal Zone hygiene (hOS Literacy, Part 5)
Optimal Zone first aid(hOS Literacy, Part 5)
defense patterns (Module 3)
If you come across concepts or words in this module’s material you feel should be added to the list, please let me know.
A visual map for this module’s content
Here’s the diagram with the titles for each exploration plus the previous modules for context. The curved arrows show connections where one exploration particularly influences or feeds into another. The angular arrows show the influence from a whole module, sometimes on a whole later module and sometime on a particular later exploration.
Module 5 Explorations
Decision-Making – Exploration 2