Collective Intelligence at Work (Video Course)

Description

This 1-hour course gives you the tools you need to get the best from your team collectively, featuring immediately actionable tools used by high-performing teams around the world. 

Collective intelligence measures the combined intelligence of a group of people to solve shared problems. Science has proved that if a group of people use the right behaviors and approaches, they can be more intelligent together than the most intelligent person in that group. This course explains and simplifies the latest scientific research in psychology, neuroscience ,and collective intelligence to help you enhance your teams hive thinking and performance for more successful decision-making. 

Teamwork and collaboration expert and author, Pamela Hamilton, shows you how to build a strong, resilient, high-performing team using collective intelligence tools and strategies that you can implement as a team leader or a team member.

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Learn How To:

• Apply the psychology and neuroscience of collective intelligence to your team to gain the best potential outcome for projects
• Overcome groupthink or herd mentality for better decision-making
• Invoke the 8 key ingredients for creating a collectively intelligent team

Who Should Take This Course:

• Team leader or a team member in a global, multi-cultural, hybrid, or remote working environment who wants their team to work better together
• Leader who feels their teams collective potential and impact could be improved
• Those who are in a team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints and find team problem-solving and alignment challenging

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Video Lessons are available for download for offline viewing within the streaming format. Look for the green arrow in each lesson.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction to Course

Course overview

What is Collective Intelligence?

Introduction

Introduction to the Hive Mind and Collective Intelligence

Learning about collaboration from ants, bees and fish

Why collective intelligence is at risk today

Design & Lead: Facilitating Successful Collaboration

Introduction

Why collective intelligence needs planning and facilitation

Principles of divergence and convergence

Using collective intelligence tools and techniques

Diversify the Team: Increase Project Success

Introduction

Why diversity is crucial to collective intelligence

Respecting and supporting different team members

Preparing people to contribute well

Prime Participants: Prepare The Hive Mind

Introduction

Why prep work and priming helps the Hive Mind

Examples of scouts and prep work

Finding relevant inspiration and stimulus

Airtime: Guarantee Equal Participation

Introduction

Equal participation and why it works

Structure and theming for idea development

Manage dominant or high-status participants

Collaboration Behaviors: Managing People to Co-Create

Introduction

Setting expectations for participation

Key collaboration behaviors

Dealing with challenging people and behaviors

Constructive Conflict: How To Stretch Thinking

Introduction

What is good conflict?

How to disagree well

Conversation starters for constructive conflict

Schema: Structure Information for Decision-Making

Introduction

Introduction to schema and information structures

The importance of varying perspectives and analysis

Disrupt habits, setting, and pace for fresh thinking

Storytelling: Enhance Memorability and Meaning

Introduction

How storytelling aids memory

How to use technology to collaborate

Tips for strong narratives

Final Map 

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