The document discusses the three modes of collaboration: informative, evaluative, and generative. Informative collaboration involves sharing information through telling, showing, asking, and responding. Evaluative collaboration focuses on challenging, defining, commenting, and revising. Generative collaboration is about brainstorming, visual capturing, building, arraying, and synthesizing. The document emphasizes that effective collaboration in any mode requires addressing behaviors like trust and engagement before focusing on technology alone.
18. Making speaker visible
Providing access to
content during/after
Ensuring questions +
responses seen/heard
by all
I
Revealing
Pausing
Checking
Inquiring
19. Making group + content
visible
Allowing content to be
equally editable (?)
Enabling changing to be
seen by all
E
Reiterating
Clarifying
Focusing
Eliciting
20. Framing the problem
Making intangible visible
Sharing ownership
Recognizing unique
contributions
G
Aligning
Facilitating
Summarizing
Highlighting
21. I
G
E
The best COLLABORATION be it I, E or G
solves for BEHAVIORS before TECHNOLOGY
(aka the “GORILLA before MONKEYS” rule)
22. Now… Go ape.
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Editor's Notes
THREE MODES: When collaborating, people tend to cycle through three distinct ways of sharing their thinking with others, often rapidly within minutes, as ideas grow and build from the individual into team mind and memory. Having an awareness of these modes and establishing expectations around each can enhance effectiveness. Part of the distinction is evident once we look at the activities…
Walkthrough, highlight Sococo. Great b/c….
Walkthrough, highlight mural.ly. Great b/c….
So the majortake away here is that as you think about your collaborative session, think about which mode(s) will be dominant. But before trying to solve the monkey problem of making sure that everyone on the distributed team can PHYSICALLY hear, see and speak – address the gorilla issue. Focus on the behaviors that you’ll need to build TRUST and then choose the technology that will best support those behaviors. What now?