Webinar Recordings

Guest speaker David Pender on the Science of Collaborative Working

Performance Through People: Transforming collaboration into a sustainable competitive advantage People are a company’s core asset, and the organising principles governing how they work are crucial to realizing their potential. At a time of uncertainty and talent scarcity, leaders can choose to capture lasting benefits by ensuring that their organisations truly work for their people. In this webinar, Allan Ryan founder of the Hargraves Institute and Adjunct Professor at UTS Business School will outline how organisations can develop a collaborative culture and most importantly, collaborative leaders. We all understand that collaboration is important. How we develop and improve collaborative practice and what people do are questions that may not be clear to many. A recent survey by McKinsey of 1800 organisations highlights the importance of collaborative practices to deliver high performance and resilience. And only 9% fit this category. This webinar will explore the practice actions, tools, and skills needed for all modern leaders today.

We are pleased to welcome Andrew Pope from Designing Collaboration to present Simplifying digital collaboration. This webinar is a change of pace from our usual offerings, with practical tools on one method of collaborative working that can apply in any industry and with any group – digital collaboration.

Join us for our first webinar of 2023 featuring Mike Ford of Project Leadership, who will be presenting on collaborative contracting and the New Engineering Contract (NEC) collaborative contracting model, on behalf of Thomas Telford Ltd. who manage NEC in the UK for world wide distribution.NEC encourages all contracted parties to act, ‘in a spirit of mutual trust and co-operation’. But what does this mean in practice? This webinar will explore this and give an overview of the key essentials for collaborative contracting and partnering to work in the real world.Collaborative contracting builds on open and honest dialogue to jointly seek continuous improvement throughout the project delivery cycle, in a win win environment built on the relationship between the parties. It involves helping each party to perform better and be prepared to challenge and be challenged in a constructive way to enable timely decision making.

Competing for work with larger departments can be difficult for small to medium enterprises. David Pender of Knowledge Perspectives - ICW Australia's first capability provider - will present on an example of when SMEs were able to successfully bid for large contracts by working collaboratively together to harness all of their resources and strengths. Using the ISO44001 standard as a basis, David will outline how the business discipline of collaborative working has successfully allowed SMEs to thrive in a competitive marketplace. David Pender of Knowledge Perspectives has recently become a Capability Provider for the Institute of Collaborative Working Australia, and we are please he can share his knowledge with our community of practice on how small to medium enterprises can harness collaborative working to improve their business outcomes.

We all know that the business discipline of collaborative working is worthy and that we should be doing it – but not everyone knows where to start.    We begin with individuals – those we call change makers, who are willing to ‘turn up’ and collaborate. They need an open mindset and a willingness to collaborate. A collection of change makers creates a collaborative team – or several teams within a company able to work together – because external collaboration, outside of your company, cannot effectively happen if it doesn’t happen internally.   In this webinar, you will be provided resources and information for testing open mindset, practical tools and resources, and a starting point for making collaboration work – and answer any questions you may have.     The webinar will be presented by Allan Ryan, the Founder and Executive Director of the Hargraves Institute and the Director of the Centre for Social Purpose. He is an Adj. Professor at UTS Business School with over 20 years’ experience helping leaders, teams and organisations deliver real competitive advantage through innovation. He works across all sectors, private and public, small and large, local and global, embedding innovation strategy, culture and mindset to deliver accelerated performance and increased shareholder value.

ICW Australia invites you to an exciting webinar event ‘When SME collaboration brings success for one and all’, all about successful collaboration between Small to Medium Enterprises to win Defence contracts.  Our host will be our SME Special Interest Group coordinator, David Pender of Knowledge Perspectives. In what will be an ‘In Conversation’ webinar, David will talk to Scott Begbie of APC technology on their collaboration with Daronmont, Cold Logic and Zenith to produce unique equipment for the Australian military. David will trace the evolution of the collaboration, the obstacles and opportunities - and the outcomes, focusing on the behavioural aspects of the collaboration.  This is a must-see webinar for anyone who wants to understand how collaborative working can benefit SMEs and this way forward for collaboration in this important sector of the Australian economy.

ICW Australia’s next lunchtime webinar Collaborative Leadership: how to lead change together is on Wednesday 28 September. This webinar will be hosted by Allan Ryan, the Founder and Executive Director of Hargrave Institute and the Director of the Centre for Social Purpose. When working in teams, some people will often feel they are doing all the work. Some feel underutilised; others will say that teamwork takes time or they have little to gain. Yet all the research tells us that to be fast and innovative, teams (and teamwork) work best — for both the organisation and the individual. Collaboration thrives on two key attributes – confidence and connectedness. If everyone in your team feels confident about their place and purpose and understands how to connect with others – face-to-face or online – collaboration will be more successful. Allan will share his insights and experience for leaders on how to lead for truly collaborative outcomes by setting the tone, early. He will draw from his 20 years’ experience helping leaders, teams and organisations deliver real competitive advantage through innovation. He works across all sectors, private and public, small and large, local and global, embedding innovation strategy, culture and mindset to deliver accelerated performance and increased shareholder value.