Developing Your Collaborative Skills

Increase your success and improve your professional relationships.
Strong collaboration skills result in successful problem solving, idea generation and product improvement, making them essential for every team member. They are especially important in our multicultural, multi-generational workforce and for those trying to adapt to new teams and responsibilities brought about by restructurings and downsizings.

This seminar will give you hands-on practice mastering the language, techniques and processes of collaboration. You’ll develop your own action plan to use at work and be better positioned to achieve recognition and success.

Also Available as:

• Onsite

How You Will Benefit

• Reduce conflict and solve problems in a cooperative environment
• Understand how to stimulate creativity and innovation
• Create high-trust relationships with colleagues and customers
• Build and grow a stronger informal network
• Use technology to enhance your collaborative efforts
• Represent your own viewpoint and negotiate with greater success

What You Will Cover

• Connect and work with others to achieve common goals and a shared purpose
• Stimulate creativity and innovation through collaborative thinking
• Grow an informal network of high-trust relationships and capitalize on resources and skills
• Develop behaviors to problem solve and engage in healthy conflict to get results
• Use technology and social media to enhance your efforts
• Gain buy-in to your creative thinking through a collaborative process

Who Should Attend

Business professionals who are expected to meet critical goals, to enhance their performance, support team output and work with customers, consultants and vendors.

Special Feature

Supervisors and managers who are seeking to improve their collaborative skills to create a more effective team should take Collaborative Leadership Skills for Managers (Seminar #2186).