Collaborating for Results: Silo Working and Relationships that Work

  • 3h 23m
  • David Ian Willcock
  • Ashgate Publishing
  • 2013

Where collaboration is needed and silo working creates barriers to achieving this, the cost to organisations can be very high: a lack of shared learning and innovation; unproductive conflict and stress; and significant financial costs due to programme failures. Collaborating for Results focuses on the human reasons for unproductive silo working in organisations, combining psychology with broader organisation development theory and practice. The central theme is that a visible agenda for building and maintaining working relationships across organisations is required by those seeking competitive advantage. It describes the contours of working relationships at three levels - individual, team and organisation - and proposes practical actions on route to collaboration and high performance. In doing so it acknowledges the complexity of people and relationships, the interrelationship of the three levels and explains the value of developing Open Teams at the heart of an integrated approach to business and organisational development. Organisation silos can feel like different countries, or even parallel worlds. Even in a single organisation, people in separate divisions or teams can talk a different language and have different work cultures that they each find difficult to understand and relate to. David Willcock's Collaborating for Results reframes organisation culture to bridge the divide, develop working relationships that save time and money and improve organisation performance.

About the Author

David Willcock has been helping people in organisations overcome unproductive silo working and build better working relationships for over 25 years. He started his career in general human resource management in the public and finance sectors before specialising in people and organisation development work whilst working with a leading global finance company. After a 15 year in-company career he started his own organisation development consultancy, now Liberating Potential Ltd., coaching and developing leaders and their teams across a range of sectors in the UK and abroad. David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD) and an Accredited Master Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching.

In this Book

  • Collaborating for Results—Silo Working and Relationships that Work
  • Preface
  • Factors that Influence Behaviour
  • Natural Tensions in Working Relationships
  • Deeper Obstacles to Working Relationships
  • Reviewing the Quality of Working Relationships
  • Taking Responsibility in Working Relationships
  • Facilitating Improvement in Working Relationships
  • Part I Key Point Summary
  • Factors that Influence Behaviour within and between Teams
  • Obstacles to Good Quality Relationships within Teams
  • Obstacles to Good Quality Relationships between Teams
  • Overcoming Obstacles with Open Teams
  • Reviewing Relationships within and between Teams
  • Facilitating Improvement in Team Relationships
  • Key Point Summary
  • The Implications for Organisation Development
  • How Senior Leaders can Increase Collaboration for Results
  • Shaping Values and Infrastructure to Improve Collaboration
  • How Leaders can Manage the Shadow Side of Change
  • Conclusions
  • Part III Key Point Summary
  • Bibliography
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