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Avoiding ‘the fourth wall’ effect of open plan offices – optimising collaboration

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 11th December 2019 People use ‘the fourth wall’ in open plan offices to create ‘public solitude’ The 18th -century French philosopher, Denis Diderot, came up with the concept of ‘the fourth wall’ for performers on a stage.  He guided them to “imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating …

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Managing your productivity in a collaborative climate

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 14th July 2018 Collaborative working is on the rise – at the cost of individual productivity Speaking from experience This will not be news to people who are continuously wrestling against the demands of their e-mails, meetings, phone calls and interruptions from colleagues. Matrix working, multi-tasking on projects and interacting with colleagues, …

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Is it psychobabble? How better understanding can lead to better collaboration

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2015 Meet Diane and Tom Diane and Tom are two colleagues who have been working together for some years now.  Their latest project is to make a new kind of widget. Diane enjoys a good debate. She loves having new challenges to explore, opportunities to think ‘outside the box’, to break …

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The five principles of “error proof” collaboration with people outside your own organisation

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By Luis Fernandez, with an introduction by Elisabeth Goodman 21st November, 2014 Introduction I asked Luis to write this blog as he has a very people centric approach to project management, and I thought he might have a valuable perspective on how to bring that to bear when collaborating with people outside the project team. …

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Collaborative working – UkeIG 2012 post-AGM briefing (#ukeigagm)

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Tweets from a presentation by Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, MWD Advisors entitled: Building a collaborative culture: people, processes and technology (to be read from the bottom up!) @aashenden #ukeigagm #km #CM mwdadvisors.com/collaboration Collab tool strategy (2): identify & address resistance; incentivise collaboration; lead by example Collab tool strategy (1): clear business goals; sponsorship throughout org; …

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