Almost made it we are done with the collaborative event. We are assuming at this point that you have a finished product or finished design, whatever you're working on. And we're just talking about what to do after the collaboration. So, number one, when you are presenting this, do not take credit for other people's work. Do not say, I thought of this, I'm bringing this, it needs to be we are bringing this, our team thought of this. You could even save my team if you needed to.

But this is not only your work, not only is that plagiarizing there, there are just very few things that will shut down further collaboration quicker than taking credit for somebody else's work. It's just wrong ethically Legally, it's just wrong. Don't do it. Do not take credit for other people's work. If you are not done with the product, then you need to follow up with any minutes or notes or assignments, send reminder emails to people. Hey, Susan, remember you agreed and I'm hoping to have it by Friday, yada yada.

You also want to follow up with your staff to reinforce any behaviors that you would like to reinforce. That happened from the collaboration. So this is not a long thing, but you might want to send a thank you just really quick again to Susan fictitious Susan. Hey, thank you so much. That was a great idea. I you know, really grateful that you felt comfortable sharing it.

Or you can also ask for the behavior you would like to see next time. You know, I really appreciated you coming up with a, b or c but Next time, could you fill in the blank. So whatever behavior it is you're hoping to see next time or, you know, I know you have a bunch of great ideas, let me know what I can do to help you feel more comfortable next time. ideas like that. So it can be a quick email if you think that the person might feel confronted by doing it in person, or over the phone. Or if you think that directness would be appreciated, you could, you know, choose your method, how to do it, and it does not have to be a long drawn out thing.

Just think of it as like a thank you note. It's just a couple sentences to reinforce. You also want to ask for the team's feedback. Maybe not every single time you have a collaborative event, unless those are few and far between. But you do routinely want to ask for people's feedback. How did it go?

How was the tech that you used? How inclusive Did you feel it was you want to hear all these things? Did they feel like it was something they Could you freely open up, you may want to offer this on a, you know, Survey Monkey type of thing so that their answers can be anonymous, that you'll definitely get more honest answers. If people can be anonymous, they definitely feel more comfortable that way. So you can offer that as a possibility. And then you need to implement what you can feedback wise.

So if they do tell you that something would have made them feel more comfortable, or you know, having more time or this certain software that you used was just so glitchy that it really impacted their ability to collaborate. You want to be able to take that back and make those changes. One of the ways that you can do that is also to do a trial run. And that was something I love to do. So, all right, we're going to try a trial run on this software, or even going back to the Socratic. Method Hey, guys, I'm going to trial this, I heard about it, I want to try something out with you guys.

Let me know how it goes. If this is so awkward, and we just can't get through it as a team, then we'll shut it down. And we'll go back to our normal way next time. But that way, there's really no harm in trying something new and is very low risk for very high reward of trying something new, especially with the feedback and if you're going to try anything new as well. So you are now done with your collaborative event. You've done the wrap up, you've done everything, hopefully you're prepared for next time.

Make notes of the feedback for yourself, and what you personally might want to change or do better next time. And you're just going to keep growing. Remember, this is a cycle where you learn from every time and you just keep growing. So you're going to keep getting better and better at this. And please let me know if you have any questions. I'm always happy to help Good luck.