Professionals in today's workplace face significant challenges to working together effectively, including the shift from in-person to virtual or hybrid team environments, reorganized workflows and reporting structures, and various workplace disruptions. Without effective collaboration skills, teams encounter project delays, miscommunications, and failed initiatives that derail organizational success.
Effective and authentic collaboration is more important than ever in modern workplaces. True collaboration requires both a specific mindset and coordinated skills executed by team members working in unison. This evidence-based course helps you and your team develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to embrace and execute effective collaboration in any work environment.
Before the course begins, participants complete a pre-course online assessment that calculates their individual "Collaboration Quotient" and provides personalized data to help identify the specific skills they should develop and how to enhance their collaborative effectiveness.
Who Should Attend:
This course benefits a wide range of professionals across job functions and levels, including individual contributors, managers, team members, group leaders, directors, project team leaders, and HR, learning and development, and training managers.
How You Will Benefit:
- Recognize what effective collaboration looks like in today's complex work environments
- Define the differences between cooperation, coordination, and collaboration
- Discover research findings on five key behaviors that correlate strongly to effective collaboration
- Identify your individual collaborative strengths and areas for development
- Learn what it means to go above and beyond in terms of collaborative excellence
What You Will Cover:
- Recognizing the critical need for collaboration in today's business environment
- Learning how collaboration, cooperation, and coordination each drive different behavioral patterns
- Exploring the course model that outlines key collaboration behaviors
- Evaluating your personal Collaboration Quotient and identifying areas for improvement
- Understanding how problem-solving serves as a unique criterion for effective collaboration
- Analyzing dual-concern theory and the joint problem-solving approach
- Learning why mutual planning and monitoring are essential components of collaboration
- Discussing goal-setting theory, the planning process, and the monitoring process
- Discovering how supportiveness, accountability, communication, and trust enable effective collaboration
- Developing a personalized action plan to address a specific collaborative challenge
