The Collaborative Advantage: Uniting Different Perspectives for Greater Impact with Bonita Owens
- Nisi Bennett
- Mar 25
- 2 min read
Meet Your Expert: Bonita Owens
As an Executive Coach and Consultant at AWN Leadership Consulting, Bonita Owens brings specialized expertise in leveraging diverse personality styles and team dynamics to the Building a Collaborative Workforce track. With a background in transforming cross-organizational challenges into collaborative advantages, Bonita helps leaders recognize and align different strengths to create powerful partnerships and unprecedented impact.
Workshop Overview
Title: The Collaborative Advantage: Uniting Different Perspectives for Greater Impact
Are your cross-organizational efforts stalling because of conflicting working styles and approaches? What if these differences could be transformed from frustrating roadblocks into your greatest collaborative asset?
In this dynamic, interactive workshop, Bonita reveals practical strategies for leveraging diverse personality strengths to build powerful collaborative partnerships. Drawing from her S.C.A.L.E. Leadership Framework and Brené Brown's research on vulnerability, participants will engage in hands-on exercises that immediately enhance their ability to build buy-in and create unity across different perspectives.
Rather than forcing square pegs into round holes in collaborative initiatives, participants will discover how recognizing and aligning different strengths creates the foundation for unprecedented impact—turning organizational differences into a powerful advantage.
Workshop Objectives
During this hands-on session, participants will:
Map Team's Hidden Strengths: Learn simple tools to identify how different personality styles can work together more effectively, turning potential conflicts into collaborative advantages.
Build Trust Across Differences: Master practical approaches to create psychological safety where team members feel empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and ideas.
Put Strengths to Work: Develop ready-to-use strategies that match the right people to the right roles in collaborative projects, generating immediate results and enhanced outcomes.
Why You Can't Afford to Miss This Session
Immediate Application: Gain practical tools and exercises you can implement as soon as you return to your organization, creating rapid improvements in collaborative effectiveness.
Conflict Transformation: Learn how to recognize and reframe interpersonal and stylistic friction not as problems to manage but as opportunities to leverage for stronger outcomes.
Enhanced Decision-Making: Discover frameworks for ensuring diverse perspectives are genuinely incorporated into collaborative decision processes, leading to more innovative and sustainable solutions.
Trust Development: Explore evidence-based approaches to building the foundational trust necessary for meaningful collaboration across different working styles and organizational cultures.
Measurable Impact: Leave with specific metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of your collaborative approaches, allowing for continuous improvement and demonstrable results.
Connect with Bonita
Want to learn more about Bonita's approach to collaborative leadership before the event? Connect with her on LinkedIn.
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