What makes The Collaborative Way® so powerful? It’s not the normal way people relate with each other at work. It’s also not the normal approach that companies take on to develop their people and build the level of teamwork necessary to achieve the company’s goals.
The article “I Will Follow” in the April 2016 issue of Fortune magazine contains and extraordinary story about leading change. It illustrates how listening generously can provide the opening for being a masterful agent of change.
Gwyneth Paltrow and her team at goop practice The Collaborative Way®. In fact, they love it so much they interviewed Lloyd and wrote and published an article on their website.
Conflict is a healthy part of collaboration. If you practice The Collaborative Way®, you know that it brings up any challenges you have with conflict. Here are four ways you can use your practice to support you in navigating conflict productively.
Listening for commitment is listening to discover and appreciate what someone cares deeply about. All of us care deeply about something; we all have some kind of underlying commitment that guides our actions and determines what we stand for and support. When you bring people’s underlying commitment forward through your listening, great things often happen—new possibilities emerge; conflict becomes easier to navigate; your influence increases; and teams align around a course of action.