The audio for the second interview with David Coleman is now available. Themes to emerge during the interview this time round: Where now for collaboration? In the context of the economic downturn, and reduced budgets for OD in general, how do collaboration specialists make a strong business case for what they do? Measuring the impact [...]
We found our recent conversation with David Coleman so fruitful and relevant to the wider field of human relations in an organisational context that we have invited him back. David has agreed to join us next Wednesday, 11th August, at 8am Pacific Time/4pm UK time. He is the founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies. [...]
The audio for our recent interview with David Coleman is now available, and this was one of the most interesting ones we have done. Themes to emerge during the interview include: The importance of taking a holistic view on collaboration , without which the chances of success are minimal. TCOP Model (numbers in brackets are [...]
The recent Football World Cup in South Africa provided a number of remarkable examples of what happens when collaboration and interpersonal fit works, and when it is truly dysfunctional. If the teams from France and England offered fine examples of dysfunctional collaborative relationships, then Germany’s team was the polar opposite, as was that from the [...]
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Download the MP3 The audio for our recent interview with Collaboration Specialist Kjetil Kristensen is now available. In this interview we explored the territory of fit in relation to collaborative frameworks, through the lens of Kjetil’s work as a practitioner/researcher. Themes to emerge include: Collaboration from a research perspective: what is it, and how does Kjetil [...]
We are delighted to announce that on Wednesday May 5th, at 1pm UK time, we will be joined by Kjetil Kristensen, who is a Collaboration Specialist based in Oslo, Norway. Fit and collaboration We intend to explore fit through the lens of Kjetil’s specialism, and will explore areas such as collaborative strategies, collaborative innovation, collaboration [...]
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Download the MP3 Our most recent event was an interview with Professor Vlatka Hlupic of Westminster Business School. The principal themes to emerge during the interview were: Emergent Leadership – what is it? How does Emergent Leadership relate to ‘fit’? The extent to which organisations of today are equipped or indeed open to Emergent Leaders. [...]
“Researchers have often applied a one-size-fits-all model to relational work design, overlooking situational and individual differences in the functions of workplace relationship.“ (Grant & Parker, 2009: 36) The underplaying of social relationships and social cohesion as significant facets of work and organisation is not new. In part this may be attributable to the difficulty researchers [...]
Since the Fit Forum was founded in June 2009, we have held several tele-conference events, covering a variety of themes ranging from the role of the unconscious in fit creation, Human Systems Dynamics and complex adaptive systems, and whether at a fundamental level there could be said to be something called ‘human fit’. The conversations [...]
