COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT TRAINING

Organise the work, share responsibilities and make decisions together, without pushing everything up the hierarchy.

Meetings that drag on. Decisions waiting for the boss. Unclear roles, and tensions nobody talks about. In many teams, the problem isn’t skills, it’s the way people work together.

This two-day training lets you practise the tools of shared governance and collective intelligence: consent-based decision-making, election without candidates, clear roles, effective meetings, handling tensions.

In practice

The training takes place at your premises, for your team. We mainly work in the French- and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and are happy to travel elsewhere on request.

It is delivered in English, French or German, for a group of up to 12 people.

You will learn to:

• Align individual and collective objectives around a shared purpose
• Assign roles transparently and collaboratively
• Choose different decision-making approaches depending on the situation
• Design and facilitate collaborative meetings
• Introduce practices to coordinate work
• Address tensions collectively and constructively

Programme (2 days)

1. Structuring governance: Clarify a shared purpose, distribute roles and experiment with different ways of making decisions: common purpose, intention circle, election without candidates, advice process, energy-based dot-voting and consent-based decision-making.
2. Bringing collective working to life: Organise collaboration, coordinate work and address tensions: meeting roles and rules, Kanban, planning poker, tension management and speedboat.

Audience and prerequisites

• Organisation leaders, managers, team leaders, project teams and anyone looking to develop participative practices
• No prerequisites

Let’s talk about your training needs

Want to see the training in practice?

Discover how our work with BFSA Atelier d’architecture led from project-related questions to a broader reflection on roles, decision-making and how the organisation operates.

Frequently asked questions

What is collaborative management?

A set of practices for sharing responsibilities, making decisions and organising work by involving the team, rather than routing everything through the hierarchy. It draws on shared governance and collective intelligence.

Do we need to transform the whole organisation?

No. These tools also work for a single team, a project or a meeting. You start where the need is felt.

Can we get support after the training?

Yes. We can support your team through mentoring or run workshops to put these practices in place.