Steve explains that successful collaboration depends on all three systems working together. The Human brings logic and reasoning, the Chimp brings emotion and drive, and the Computer provides stored beliefs and behaviours.
Collaboration
Working Effectively With Others
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course explores collaboration through The Chimp Model and explains why working effectively with others requires more than good intentions. Professor Steve Peters shows that collaboration depends on understanding how the Human, Chimp, and Computer operate within ourselves and within other people.
Rather than assuming collaboration is simply about cooperation, Steve explains why it can break down and how recognising emotional drivers, beliefs, and expectations improves outcomes. The course focuses on understanding how the three systems must work together to achieve successful collaboration.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
This course helps you understand why collaboration succeeds or fails and how to approach it more effectively. The focus is on recognising how the Human, Chimp, and Computer each contribute to collaboration and how understanding others improves results.
The Human collaborates through discussion and rational agreement. The Chimp collaborates through emotion, belonging, dominance, or threat. The Computer influences collaboration through established beliefs and habits.
Engaging someone in collaboration means getting to know them. It requires understanding what motivates their Chimp, how they think as a Human, and what beliefs sit in their Computer.
The Chimp, supported by the Computer, often determines whether collaboration succeeds or fails. If the Chimp feels threatened or undervalued, collaboration becomes difficult. If it feels secure and respected, collaboration improves.
Effective collaboration requires recognising emotional reactions, adjusting communication, and working with both the Human and Chimp systems. This creates stability and increases the likelihood of productive outcomes.
Meet Professor Steve Peters
Professor Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author, and creator of The Chimp® Model. For more than 40 years, he has helped people understand their mind and improve their psychological wellbeing, working across NHS mental health services, education, and elite sport — including British Cycling, Liverpool FC, England Football, and Team GB.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Chimp Paradox and A Path Through the Jungle, and continues to teach simplified neuroscience to help people manage their emotions, thinking, and behaviour.
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