Collaboration tips and tools
Collaborative Maxims: Principles for working together in an organization (Ben’s e-book)
Collaborative Organization Checklist: Collaboration is about people working together. Use this checklist as maxims, principles, to strive towards, in your workplace relationships, and in leading a collaborative organization.
Collaboration Agreement Template: This template contains essential elements in an effective agreement, to guide a new working relationship and/or enhance an existing relationship.
Conflict Management tips and tools
Cost of Conflict calculation: A tool to help you measure the true cost of workplace conflict. Developed by the Workplace Fairness Institute.
Respectful Workplace Checklist: Use this checklist to assess how well your organization demonstrates a respectful workplace, and to identify areas for improvement.
Mediation Agreement Checklist: Mediation is a collaborative form of dispute resolution where the parties in dispute resolve the dispute themselves, with the assistance of a 3rd party neutral (the mediator), instead of an arbitrator or judge ruling who is right or wrong. This checklist serves as a guide for what’s included in an agreement, reached through mediation.
Mediator Manifesto: A buyer’s guide to hiring a mediator. Fifteen things to consider.
Self-assessments
Conflict Intelligence Self-Assessment: This effective tool was developed by Cinnie Noble, Cinergy Coaching.
Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment: A quiz to test how well you read other people’s facial expressions. From University of California, Berkeley.
Civility (How civil are you?) Self-Assessment: A quiz developed by professor Christine Porath, author of Mastering Civility.
Implicit Association Assessment: Get to know your own biases and stereotypes better. Harvard U. test.
