Better by Design is the 7th in my Break Through to Yes series on collaboration.
2016: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration
2017: The Foundations for Collaboration,
The Collaborative Guests Podcasts,
The 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration, and
Unlocking the Possible with Collaboration
2018: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration
(revised and updated), and
Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide
My previous books, co-authored, are Ready Aim Excel: 52 Leadership Lessons
(2012) and Let's Talk: A Company to Company Council Dispute Resolution
Handbook (2004). My Sustain Magazine (2013) served organizations committed
to the economic and social opportunities of sustainability.
Why me? I will help you solve your challenges and capture your opportunities
with my unique background and proven leadership in helping people and
organizations work together better. I bring you:
1. Over 42 years of leadership, negotiation, collaboration, and dispute
resolution,
2. Three decades of volunteering for, and in some cases leading, important not-for-profits organizations
3. Published seven books on collaboration, co-authored a book on leadership, and co-authored a book on dispute resolution between companies
4. Coached leaders for more than ten years
5. Hosted 45 podcasts on collaborative leadership
6. Developed a 360 assessment for organizational/team development
7. Surveyed leaders in several industries and not-for-profits, as well as Rotary International and the Heart and Stroke Foundation
I realize there is a significant gap. That gap is the absence of a readily accessible, informative, and practical guide for you. You may not have the time or resources to bring together all the wisdom. And you still have dreams, aspirations, purpose, and teams to create, encourage, and accomplish.
This Better by Design guidebook is intended to help you decide, design, assess, lead, and succeed with your initiatives and projects. This book is intended to serve you and your organization. As you design and lead your next initiative, my vision is that you will minimize inefficiencies, maximize results, build stronger project teams, and change your world with the help of Better by Design. Use this guide over and over--as the fresh starting place for you to generate your own practical methods and energized visions.
"When it comes to the often daunting challenge of collaboration, most leaders wish there was a handy guide available to help walk them through uncharted territory. Thankfully, David Savage has now produced just such a resource. His new book, Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide., should be part of every leaders' toolkit. David Savage has produced a practical guide that promises to simplify the process of collaboration and enhance the outcomes of trusting relationships." David Mitchell, past CEO of the Canadian Public Policy Forum
Contents include:
Values and Ethics
A Graphic Overview
What is Collaboration?
Why Collaboration Fails
A Culture of Collaboration
A Collaborative Process
Key Elements
How You Show up
The 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration
A Checklist
An Assessment
Your Examples and Decisions
A Call to Action
Savage, David B.: - David brings 42+ years expertise, experience, and leadership in oil and gas, renewable energy, healthcare, entrepreneurship, stakeholder engagement and conflict management. Over a ten-year period, David and partners collaborated to develop 5 companies and 4 not for profits. Since 2007, Savage Management has focused on build capacity, innovation and accountability in people and in and between organizations and communities. David Savage works with leaders and organizations to advance their success through collaboration, negotiation, conflict resolution, and business development. CORE COMPETENCIES: Negotiations and Agreement Building, Business Development, Acquisitions, Management Consulting, Strategic Planning & Execution, Sustainability Engagement and Organizational Development, Management Leadership and Team Building, Stakeholder Engagement, Business Development, Conflict Management, Executive and Team Coaching plus 360 Leadership Assessments. Getting the right people, in the right places, with the right systems and right resources to collaborate, innovate and figure out challenges together is the best way. And, if that is not possible, then guiding the parties to the right people, principles, processes and systems to ensure everyone's interests are heard and considered is the goal. PUBLICATIONS 2003: Company to Company Dispute Resolution Council: Let's Talk Handbook. 2011: Sustain Magazine. 2012: Ready Aim Excel: 52 Leadership Lessons 2016: Break Through to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2017: The Collaborative Podcast Series (print, eBook and Audible) is now available. The Books, which include 75 guests from eight nations) are; Book 1: The Foundations For Collaboration Book 2: The Collaborative Guest Podcasts Book 3: The 10 Essential Steps Book 4: Unlocking the Possible 2018: Break Through To Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration, Updated and Revised edition Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guidebook
