Better By Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide: How to Produce Better Results by Well Designed Collaborations

by David B. Savage

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 Your Best Collaboration Guide
My previous books, co-authored, are Ready Aim 52 Leadership Lessons
(2012) and Let's 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
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 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
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

82 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

“David Savage is deeply insightful and highly intuitive. He is a skilled and highly regarded practitioner with a strong sense of ethics and values. He has a profound commitment to personal and organizational transformation and can be counted on to be honest, resourceful, and supportive. I recommend him highly.” Ken Cloke, Founder Mediators Beyond Borders and Author of The Dance of Opposites.

David’s speaking, workshops, and writing highlights include;

Transforming Bad Communication to Great Break Throughs
Business on Purpose,
Turning the Great Resignation into Your Great Opportunity,
Nobody Gets to be Right: How to Lead through Curiosity,
Leading as a Positive Conflict Resolver: Don’t be an A.C.E. Hole,
How to Produce Better Outcomes through Well Designed Collaborations, and
Creating Shared Value is the Way: Collaboration is the Path.
David brings expertise, experience, and leadership including oil and gas, renewable energy, health care, entrepreneurship, stakeholder engagement, business development, coaching, and conflict management.

David is President, Savage Management Ltd., Advisor, The Canadian Energy and Climate Nexus, Director, Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Association and Chair Conservation and Environment Committee Waterton Glacier I.P.P.A.

Past Director/ Chair/ President roles include the ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Indian Band) Community Enterprises, Rotary Club of Cranbrook Sunrise, Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (District 5080), Canadian Association of Professional Speakers Calgary, Heart and Stroke Foundation Alberta, Nunavut and NWT, Petroleum Joint Venture Association (President) and Mediators Beyond Borders International- Canada.

David’s nine published books include Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide, Break Through to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2018 Edition, The Collaborative Podcast Series, Ready Aim Excel! And Company to Company Dispute Resolution Council published the Let’s Talk Handbook. David’s tv appearances and podcasts offer you over 55 opportunities to learn.

david@davidbsavage.com / 403-466-5577 / https://www.davidbsavage.com/ Let’s talk.