1. What is the best lesson you've learned from collaborating?
2. What experience taught you a lesson about your limitations?
How did it make you feel?
3. What experience have you had where stakeholders have supported, enhanced or undermined your work?
What did you learn from it?
4. What experience showed you about the power of personal networks?
What did you learn?
5. Tell us about a time where you started a job where the internal language and jargon was impenetrable?
What did you do?
6. When did you learn a trick about, or what skill do you have, about getting people to work well together?
7. Did you ever work in a place where people had different visions of what was to be done and how to do it?
Tell us about what it was like.
8. Have you used collaboration tools?
What’s the best and why?
9. Did you ever make a mistake about ‘the rules’ at work?
What happened and what would you do now?
10. What's the one essential tool you use on projects?
What experience convinced you that it was?
11. Have you ever had to calm down group tensions?
What did you do that worked?
12. What is your experience of the effect of powerful people in design projects?
What is the pattern/s?
13. Did you ever not document a process or a part of it, when it really mattered?
What was the effect?
14. Tell us about the pitfalls of prototyping in your experience.
15. Have you had an experience that taught you that people come from different perspectives, or have different world views.
What happens?
16. Tell us about the last time a project taught you a lesson about people and how they work together.
What did you learn?
17. What is the best and the worst working space you have worked in?
What would you reccomend now?
18. What experience of prototyping has taught you how valuable it is?
19. What experience taught you about how different people have different expectations and visions of success?
What happened?
20. What have you discovered about how people react to prototypes?
What’s the pattern?
21. What is your experience of successful prototyping in your work?
What’s your golden rule?
22. What experience taught you a lesson about getting groups of people in the same place at the same time?
What do you know as a result?
23. What experience of getting people to participate in your projects challenged you?
What did you learn from it?
24. What experience showed you about the power of personal networks?
What did you learn>
25. When did you learn the hard way about the art of engaging people in a project?
What did you learn?
26. How do you motivate people in a project?
What experience taught you what you know about keeping it all going when the wheels fall off?
27. When did you help out a colleague and really feel like you made a difference?
What was it about the situation that made you do it?
28. What experience showed you that changing the space where you work has a big effect on the quality of the work?
What happened?
29. Have you ever used new and inventive methods to get people to join in on your project?
How did it work?
30. Tell us something you know about working with people.
What would be your rule of thumb?
31. When did you first really colaborate on something?
How did it feel?
32. Have you been involved in project evaluations?
What have you learned as a result?
33. Did you ever accidentally miss out someone important from a meeting?
What happened?
34. Have you ever worked in places where people use the same terms or words to mean very different things?
What happens?
35. Did you ever book a meeting where few people turned up?
Why did you think that happened?
36. Have you ever worked “under the radar”?
What happened?
37. Go on. Ignore our questions.
Just tell us a story you think is important.
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