Skillful Collaboration
- Duration
- 3 Weeks
- Sessions
- 3
- Time per week
- 30 Minutes/Week
Who is the course for?
This course would benefit anyone who wants to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and work towards achieving a common goal.
Course description
Successful collaboration involves far more than just working side-by-side. It’s a process that requires attitudes, skills, and practices that can be learned and strengthened, and mastering them will not only make your job easier, but it will also help you to become more successful. Collaboration increases accountability and increases motivation. In this course, you will recognize when and when not to use a collaboration approach, identify how to establish and communicate expectations to group members to ensure a successful collaboration, and recognize the inward attitudes and outward behaviors necessary to collaborate well.
Completing this course will help you
Identify the benefits and challenges of collaboration.
Explore the skills required to collaborate with others effectively.
Recognize ways collaboration can be destroyed.
3 Modules
- 01
Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration
In this module, we will explore the benefits and challenges of collaboration, when to collaborate, and who should be involved. We will also define how to establish expectations and collaborate with leaders. We will then determine how to create a community of practice and utilize the tools required for effective collaboration.
- 02
Skills Necessary for Successful Collaboration
In this module, we will learn how to develop the required attitude to be an effective collaborator and explore how to turn your conflicts into cooperation. We will determine how to get things done and explore the words to use and avoid for effective collaboration.
- 03
Approaches that Destroy Collaboration
In this module, we will define and explore how collaboration gets destroyed, why it happens, and methods we can use to manage it. Some key topics that will be explored in this module include protecting our turf, being indecisive, needing excessive help, and acting uninterested.
Leader Behaviors
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