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SMARTer Collaboration Discover the Jazz Musician Within. Brian Fraser & the Jazzthink Trio Provincial Roundtable Divisions of Family Practice May 31, 2012. Cory Weeds Bill Weeds Doug Stephenson. The Jazzthink Trio.
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SMARTer CollaborationDiscover the Jazz Musician Within Brian Fraser & the Jazzthink Trio Provincial Roundtable Divisions of Family Practice May 31, 2012
Cory Weeds Bill Weeds Doug Stephenson The Jazzthink Trio
Community-based groups of family physicians working together to achieve common health care goals Divisions of Family Practice
Imagine how you can improve your conversations to improve your collaboration Our Invitation
More than words, conversation is music: Its harmony, rhythm, and flow transcend communication, flexing mind and heart, tuning us for companionship. Blyth on Conversation
Integrated Wisdom • Brain • Heart • Gut • Respect your different sources of wisdom and integrate them into collaboration
Discovering Your Wisdom What qualities of great collaboration do you see and hear in the performance of the jazz group?
Desire improvement Welcome allies Discern common values Explore possibilities Choose wise actions Support implementation = COLLABORATE How Do You Collaborate?
Richard Hackman on Collaboration • Know who is involved • Develop a compelling direction • Create supportive structures / processes • Get coaching help for both leaders and the group when needed • “The best teams are like jazz players, improvising constantly as they go along.”
Patrick Lencioni on Collaboration • Trust each other • Engage in unfiltered conflict around ideas • Commit to decisions and plans of action • Hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans • Focus on achieving collective results
Monty Alexander on Collaboration • Collaboration, at its best, • is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each person bringing: • virtuosity • optimism • mutual respect • good will • the desire to make it feel good.
F The Basic Tool of Collaboration You collaborate with each other by having conversations…
F The Focus of Collaboration … about hopes, possibilities, improvements, & benefits
See yourselves as jazz musicians You collaborate through conversations and you are all jazz musicians.
What enables these musicians to collaborate? Managing Yourself in Collaboration
SMARTer Conversations Soulful- being encouraging with yourself Mindfulbeing engaging with others Astute- being wise and decisive Responsiblebeing supportive and accountable Trusting– being meticulous about results
SMARTer Collaboration Soulful in managing yourself Mindful in cultivating positive relationships Astute in analyzing and deciding Responsible in generating mutual accountability and support Trusting in monitoring and measuring for improvement
Greater detail on the nature and dynamics of SMARTer conversations Get SMARTer
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