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Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi
With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive
This whakatauki (Māori proverb) talks to community, to collaboration and a strengths-based approach.
It acknowledges that everybody has something to offer, a piece of the puzzle, and by working together we can flourish.
Collaboration is the intersection between Strategy, Co-Design and System Change. It is the pinnacle of a strengths-based approach to working relationships. We acknowledge that the opportunity or desired outcome requires the collective strengths; we identify what we bring to the table and what others bring to the table; then, we work together in the spirit of humility, openness and manaakitanga [kindness, generosity, support, hospitality].
Nazanin Jenkin
Facilitator | Mentor | Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Author​
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Moving collaboration beyond a buzzword Nazanin ensures all the voices are heard for complex strategic collaborations and partnerships. Complex doesn't have to be complicated - "...she presents a complex topic in a way that others can understand and work with". Working together across silos, sectors and disciplines - Nazanin helps develop a space and environment where solutions emerge together and untapped opportunities come to life. Everyone contributes to building new futures. Utilising her Collaboration Frameworks and Design principles, we deliver:
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⚡️ Partnerships and collaborations that are bounded around policies, services, opportunities, geography, population, desired outcomes or combination thereof.
⚡️Deeper understanding of the collaboration package. Working with an external facilitator frees you to focus on your responsibilities and mandates an independent individual to manage support mechanisms, ensuring programme momentum.
⚡️In-house collaborative capability - which enables new cultures and nudges change.
⚡️The benefits of collaboration: new behaviours and skills; improved cultures & relationships; customer retention; efficiency & effectiveness gains.
These are the tangible outcomes you can expect. Working across the business spectrum, through shared solutions, supported by collective impact action plans, that cross silos, Nazanin enables collaborative inquiry where all the voices are heard and helps maintain a system perspective. She has extensive experience working with clients across sectors. Her end-to-end approach is particularly successful for those seeking to build in-house capability and long-term solutions to complex problems that need input from multiple parties.
⚡️Deeper understanding of the collaboration package. Working with an external facilitator frees you to focus on your responsibilities and mandates an independent individual to manage support mechanisms, ensuring programme momentum.
⚡️In-house collaborative capability - which enables new cultures and nudges change.
⚡️The benefits of collaboration: new behaviours and skills; improved cultures & relationships; customer retention; efficiency & effectiveness gains.
These are the tangible outcomes you can expect. Working across the business spectrum, through shared solutions, supported by collective impact action plans, that cross silos, Nazanin enables collaborative inquiry where all the voices are heard and helps maintain a system perspective. She has extensive experience working with clients across sectors. Her end-to-end approach is particularly successful for those seeking to build in-house capability and long-term solutions to complex problems that need input from multiple parties.
Nazanin is a true "pracademic" - delivering well researched thought leadership that she has translated into practitioner friendly workshops, where she artfully uses a mix of tools and techniques to help you make your partnership and collaboration journey the next success story! Whilst many leaders and practitioners have some experience in this arena, "real" collaboration needs to take a systemic perspective and can sometimes feel counter-intuitive - because collaboration as a business discipline is something deeper, more complex and an entirely new approach that requires new competencies.
My 'big idea' shared and featured in Vision Week NZ 2020
Parts of this video were used as the closing comments (1:47) for the final session of #visionweeknz, 8-12 June 2020
The theme for this session: What Next NZ; looking to the future and implementing some of these ideas. Prime Minister Jacinda Arden's Address @ 30 mins.
The theme for this session: What Next NZ; looking to the future and implementing some of these ideas. Prime Minister Jacinda Arden's Address @ 30 mins.
PODCAST
Check out my recent kōrero/conversation for the Beyond Consultation podcast series about all this things mahi tahi/collaboration here.
This is an authentic/got a bit vulnerable conversation - if you're curious about what I do and want to know more - this might be a good starting point to connect 😀
Check out my recent kōrero/conversation for the Beyond Consultation podcast series about all this things mahi tahi/collaboration here.
This is an authentic/got a bit vulnerable conversation - if you're curious about what I do and want to know more - this might be a good starting point to connect 😀
Nazanin Jenkin couldn’t believe it when her big idea was featured alongside Jacinda Ardern in Vision Week 2020. But it should come as no surprise to you if you’ve been following her work on cross-sector collaboration.
She is a fierce advocate for moving collaboration beyond a buzzword. And she has the practical experience to back this up. She began her working life in engineering - thrown into the deep end of bringing diverse views together to make change.
Now, Nasi (as her friends call her), knows that complex doesn't have to be complicated - but that takes effort and experience. If you want to build your collaboration muscles, and move collaboration beyond a buzzword, Nasi is your go-to consultant.
We talked about:
- my journey from engineering to cross-sector collaboration
- my Persian heritage & how that's influenced my work
- the reason why most collaboration is doomed to be nothing but a buzzword (and what you can do to prevent that)
- the steps you can take to build your collaboration muscles
- how and when slowing down can speed you up
- why it is so important to acknowledge the past when envisioning the future
PUBLICATIONS
Her research on collaboration in the New Zealand context delivered ground-breaking thought leadership.
A summary article “Working Towards Working Together” was published by Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (IPANZ) and can be downloaded below.
Her research on collaboration in the New Zealand context delivered ground-breaking thought leadership.
A summary article “Working Towards Working Together” was published by Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (IPANZ) and can be downloaded below.
In 2020, through the New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown Nazanin bought together her most current thinking identifying post-COVID opportunities for re-imagining new futures together.
"Collaboration: From 'buzzword' to reality" was published by Apolitical early June 2020.
In this article Nazanin considers academic research, the opportunities provided through the Wellbeing agenda and outlines three key areas for consideration:
- Why collaborate - is there a shared agenda?
- Collaboration requires time and investment, so is best suited to the most complex systemic opportunities.
- Collaboration is a stand-alone skill set and leadership approach - we need to invest in that.
Her first book - Collaboration Insights: A guide for successful collaborations & partnerships - is scheduled for publication in 2021. This will bring together many years of practice and quality research.
Nazanin's approach to delivering shared value & collective impact, assurance of value for money, and, integrated services focuses on three key pivotal areas:
* Collaboration
* Moving Strategy to Reality
* Collective Thinking
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There was a lot at stake then, and there's a lot at stake now, and we won't solve our problems if we expect them to be solved by a few supermen or superwomen. Now we need everybody, because it is only when we accept that everybody has value that we will liberate the energy and imagination and momentum we need to create the best beyond measure.
Forget the pecking order at work | Margaret Heffernen | TEDWomen 2015