Generative Collaboration by Robert Brian Dilts

Generative Collaboration by Robert Brian Dilts

Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashion

The fruit of effective collective intelligence is what is known as generative collaboration. Generative collaboration involves people working together to create or generate something new, surprising and beyond the capacities of any of the group members individually. Through generative collaboration, individuals are able to utilize their abilities to the fullest and discover and apply resources that they did not yet realize that they had. They draw new ideas and resources out of each other. Thus, the performance or output of the group as a whole is much greater than it would be if the individuals were working by themselves.

This book is for people who want to increase their capacity for working effectively together with others and to experience the excitement, satisfaction and power of generative collaboration.

Since the late 1970s, Robert Dilts has built a global reputation as a prominent behavioral skills trainer and business consultant. Robert has given coaching, consulting, and training to a wide range of individuals and organizations throughout the world as a significant developer and specialist in the subject of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Robert invented the Success Factor ModelingTM ideas and approaches, and has written numerous books and articles on how to use them to improve leadership, creativity, communication, and team growth. He has given seminars and keynote addresses on coaching, leadership, organizational learning, and change management for The International Coaching Federation (ICF), HEC Paris, The United Nations, The European Forum for Quality Management, The World Health Organization, and The Milton H. Miller Foundation.

The Erickson Foundation, Harvard University, and the International University of Monaco are all members of the Erickson Foundation. Robert oversaw the development of Tools for Living, the behavior management component of Weight Watcher's International's present program, in 1997 and 1998. Robert spent more than fifteen years as an associate professor at the ISVOR Fiat School of Management, where he assisted in the development of programs in leadership, innovation, values, and systemic thinking. From 2001 until 2004, he was the chief scientist and Chairman of the Board of ISVOR DILTS Leadership Systems, a joint venture with ISVOR Fiat (the Fiat Group's corporate university) that provided significant organizations throughout the world with a variety of unique leadership development programs.

Robert was a co-founder of Dilts Strategy Group as well as the founder and CEO of Behavioral Engineering, a company that focused on learning methodologies and behavioral change in computer software and hardware. He is also a co-founder of the IAGC (International Association for Generative Change) alongside Dr. Stephen Gilligan. Robert graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in behavioral technology.