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Getting the Most Out of Your Team: Collaboration Skills

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In this course, you will learn how to make team collaboration clearer, smoother, and more productive. You’ll build practical skills for creating team charters and working norms, clarifying roles and decision rights, running better meetings, choosing async alternatives, and keeping stakeholders aligned over time. You’ll also learn how to improve collaboration across time zones, reduce confusion in shared tools and documentation, handle conflict more constructively, and use retrospectives to strengthen how teams work together. What makes this course unique is that it treats collaboration as a real operating system for teams, not just a soft skill. Instead of focusing only on communication tips or meeting advice in isolation, it shows how clarity, facilitation, alignment rituals, tool hygiene, psychological safety, and continuous improvement all connect. The approach is practical, modern, and designed for real workplace environments where teams are cross-functional, distributed, and under pressure to deliver. Whether you are a team member, project lead, manager, or cross-functional collaborator, this course will help you become the kind of person who makes teamwork noticeably better.

Syllabus

  • Foundations of Effective Team Collaboration
  • Running Collaborative Work: Meetings, Async & Inclusive Facilitation
  • Distributed Teams: Time Zones, Tools & Documentation Hygiene
  • Continuous Improvement: Retros, Conflict & Growing Together

Taught by

Evan Kimbrell

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