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Unlock Your Team’s Intelligence with Collaboration Design
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 • Design at Scale 2022
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Unlock Your Team’s Intelligence with Collaboration Design
Speakers: Emilia Åström and Jim Kalbach
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Summary

Collaboration is key to opening the feedback loop and making innovative breakthroughs. But how do we unlock and reimagine versatile ideas in the room? By putting people first and designing to connect individuals, collaboration design helps everyone feel like they’re included and contributing equally. Join MURAL’s Emilia Åström, Learning Experience Lead, and Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist, to learn how your team can use this proven method — and MURAL — to strategize, innovate, and create your best solutions.

Key Insights

  • Collaboration design treats teamwork as an intentional, designed experience combining problem-solving and team connection.

  • The pandemic highlighted collaboration's social aspect and the importance of connection alongside task completion.

  • Pre-meeting asynchronous activities help participants prepare and build trust by sharing personal and topic-related information.

  • Using personal placemats in sessions allows introverts and second-language speakers time to think and contribute equally.

  • Turn-taking strategies in real-time sessions ensure balanced participation between remote and in-person attendees.

  • Visual prioritization tools like bullseye diagrams force teams to focus on the most important ideas by physical space constraints.

  • Small, engaging warm-up exercises (e.g., choosing favorite colors or pets) help energize participants and ease into collaboration.

  • Reflection exercises such as Rose-Thorn-Bud foster ongoing improvement and maintain team connection beyond meetings.

  • Collaboration design is a skill anyone facilitating conversations can learn and apply, not just a formal job title.

  • Experimentation is key in developing effective collaboration practices, especially in remote and hybrid environments.

Notable Quotes

"We believe collaboration should be as intentional and deliberate as any other form of design."

"Work has a social element and people miss connection with their colleagues, especially during remote work."

"Intelligent collaboration combines solving problems together with forming a sense of trust and connection."

"Taking time to connect and reflect before and after collaboration is more effective than relying on quarterly retreats."

"Personal placemats give each person time to think alone before sharing and help introverts participate better."

"Turn-taking techniques help ensure everyone’s voice is heard, especially in hybrid meetings."

"Using colors, shapes, and tags on sticky notes lets people express themselves and adds fun to sessions."

"Reflection activities like Rose-Thorn-Bud help capture what worked, what didn’t, and ideas for the future."

"Experimenting and prototyping collaboration methods helps teams find what works best for them."

"Designing collaboration means you don’t leave connection or problem-solving to chance—you make it deliberate."

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