Learn how to collaborate more effectively with stakeholders and how to improve collaboration throughout your organization.

Duration: 1 Day

Who will benefit from this workshop?

Managers and organizational change specialists who need to collaborate more effectively or who need to create a more collaborative culture.

Workshop objective

To develop an understanding of the strategic importance of collaboration, its business benefits, what blocks it and how to improve it.

Workshop overview

• Explore the meaning and rationale for collaboration, why it is so essential for organizational success in a complex, fast changing world.
• Learn how our tendency to focus on individual effort and our own needs blocks collaboration and how to balance a need to win with the need to collaborate.
• Learn how organizations inhibit collaboration by rewarding and celebrating heroic individual effort and how to balance this orientation with the need to reward a more collaborative style of working.
• Clarify the purpose of collaboration, the business benefits and the key performance outcomes to be gained by particular forms of collaboration; link collaboration to other operational processes to maximize benefits.
• Learn about the successful practices of organizations that collaborate effectively in order to overcome silo mentality, excessive territoriality and political maneuvering.
• Explore what is in it for individuals to collaborate more and how to encourage and sustain more collaborative behaviours.
• Learn and practice core collaborative styles of working to be a collaborative leader, thus leading by example as a role model for others.
• Define the key cultural attributes that generate and sustain collaboration, learning how to implement and maintain them.

• Workshop benefits
  

• Enhanced skill and confidence as a collaborator, better use of time and resources as you work more fully through and with others, thereby fostering more joint ownership rather than taking a disproportionate amount of ownership on your own shoulders.
• Save a significant amount of time by reducing territorial feuding and passive resistance on the part of disconnected silos.
• Substantial business benefits and greater productivity.

Other Workshops

1. The Engaging Manager - develop the skills of managers to better engage employees, gain their commitment and elevate their potential.
2. Excelling as a New Manager - learn how to make an effective transition from individual contributor to manager.
3. Are You a Change Agent? - assess a manager's potential to be a change agent and develop change management skills.
4. Leading Across the Organization - learn how to show leadership across and up as well as down.
5. How to Create an Engaging Culture - how to change an organization's culture to foster better employee engagement.
6. Fostering Greater Collaboration - how to improve collaboration across an organization.
7. Creating an Innovative Culture - how to develop a more innovative business culture.

Workshops are generally one day in length but they can be longer and more in depth as required. Follow up individual and/or group coaching is also offered where requested, bearing in mind that skill development is a process not an event. Individual and group coaching both take the form of reviewing what seems to be working and what isn't going so well and brainstorming optional approaches to specific issues. Group coaching has the added advantage of providing opportunities for the original workshop participants to share experiences and learn from each other.