The Architecture of Creative Collaboration

Successful organizations collaborate to face challenges and adapt to change.

There is a blueprint leaders can use to build creative collaboration in: Organizations, Teams, Boards, and Partnerships.

Gale-force waves of social, technological, political, and environmental changes present extraordinary challenges. Organizations in all sectors (business, nonprofit, education, and government) must learn to adapt to the increasing levels of risk and uncertainty.

An organization’s creative capacity to adapt is the catalyst that turns failure into survival and mediocrity into success.

Every leader and leadership team can design and build a UNITING organization where people work together resourcefully to navigate the turbulent waves of change.

Adaptive capacity requires an organizational culture

with three characteristics:

MINDSET

From the top down, every individual models openness and humility to admit mistakes and turn them into useful lessons.

Quality interactions between teams, divisions, and levels, increase learning velocity and healthy growth.

HEARTSET

A psychologically safe environment encourages everyone’s voice and creative contribution. Leaders foster a sense of belonging, trust, and confidence with decisions and actions that align with core values and guiding principles.

SKILLSET

Dialogue is the foundation practice to structure learning interactions at every level. Diverse perspectives shape wiser plans and stronger decisions.

The mission of Uniting by Design is to help

leaders unite organizations that:

Does your organization want to survive and thrive by uniting and building its adaptive capacity?

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The challenge of organizational change is ongoing. For the past 15 years, Mark Bennett has worked with us to improve the Values in Action approach to serve as our ‘gold standard’ for decision making within our organization.

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Stephen King
Senior Vice President Centura Health

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