Most organizations in today’s rapidly changing, global business world are operating in highly integrated, matrix-type structures and moving away from silos. This shift, while very positive from a business standpoint, can easily lead to organizational challenges for team work and cross-functional collaboration. Problem areas can include trust, conflict, and misunderstandings, all of which can dramatically slow decision making and execution.

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Collaborative Leadership will equip leaders with all of the critical insights, skills and strategies to unlock the potential of these highly integrated structures and help create a culture of collaboration, innovation, and speed. The program offers many proven, practical, and easy-to-learn skills, including: self-awareness to understand your strengths and weaknesses, building highly collaborative teams, facilitating win-win discussions, blending agendas, and influencing multiples stakeholder. Leaders will learn the key behaviors to build and maintain effective collaborative cultures.

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Collaborative Leadership can be taught in an organizational or team-based approach. In an organizational approach, leaders will learn skills to collaborate effectively across boundaries, cross-functionally, shared services, and across different business segments and/or divisions. In a team-based approach, leaders will learn how to increase team collaboration to an optimal level.

 

Core learning objectives include:
 

• Collaborative Communication

• Optimizing Diversity of Thought and Creating a “Feedback Rich” Culture

• Removing Barriers to Collaboration and Innovation

• Facilitating Collaborative Meetings