2. Design your collaboration process
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Good preparation
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Good preparation
Behind any good process you will usually find good preparation. Preparing well for a process you want to facilitate will create a strong starting point for engaging participants and achieving good results. These ten process questions can help you and your colleagues do that.
Remember: Start with background and purpose. Once the purpose is formulated, the answers to the remaining questions come easier. Work with them in whatever sequence works best for the process.
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Tool
Process Designer
Use the Process Designer to achieve a focused dialogue with your colleagues about your upcoming process. Discover new connections, see blind spots, and create the whole together.
On the template each of the ten process questions is represented by an icon, and they jointly make up a visual narrative of your entire upcoming process.
Structure of the template
The background of the process is placed on the horizon to the left. Next to this, raised up in the air, there is a place to write the purpose of the process. On the right ...
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