Course Overview
Build a better idea through effective team collaboration. Effective collaboration and communication are absolute requirements for organizations and professionals today. However, most take an overly simplistic view of how to address these challenges – until they are faced with the reality of conflicting priorities, lack of focus and accountability, insufficient information sharing, and projects that simply progress at a slower and slower pace while increasing in cost.

This two-day workshop shows you how to overcome collaboration and communication obstacles that impede your project deliverables and success. It combines the core content from the popular 1-day seminar, and also focuses participants on analyzing their own cross-group work situation and identifying the appropriate tool(s) to improve or enhance their collaboration. The second day gives participants the opportunity to practice using the tools provided.

Participants will also develop a self awareness of each individual's role in the success or failure of cross group dynamics through participation in two simulations that closely represent cross group work. Read More.

Who Should Attend
This seminar will be useful to anyone at any level of the organization who depends on other teams to complete work will benefit from this workshop - this includes leaders and managers, as well as individual contributors.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
The workshop then provides practical tools that you can put to use right away to improve interactions during the planning, working and wrap-up phases of cross-group projects. At the end of this seminar participants will be equipped with strategies to successfully overcome challenges, such as:

• Goals and priorities are different or conflict with other teams
• Other teams' deliverables are often late or don't meet acceptance criteria
• It's difficult to identify who to contact or who is accountable on other teams
• Communication is unclear or untimely
• Consultation or notification of changes that impact the deliverable occurs too late
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Participants should plan on getting "real work" done in this class through extensive hands-on exercises and discussion.

Plus, receive valuable takeaways. The workshop manual supplies full concept explanations and techniques used within the course. The workshop manual also provides specific instructions on how to complete the 10 "tools" or worksheets such as: the Collaborative Success Definition, Risk Planner, Milestone Monitor, and Troubleshooting Collaboration. A tablet with 2 copies of each worksheet is also provided to work on in class, and have available for use when participants are back in their office. In addition a quick reference card is provided that identifies how each tool mitigates common collaboration challenges, as well as lists 10 best practices to improve cross group collaboration.

Some comments from past participants:

"I already recommended this to my entire team....It should be made as a mandatory training for every employee....Exercises were great, well structured, and raised very salient points....This training should be a mandatory one for all new hires....It is simply THAT good and invaluable to getting any job done."

Unsure if Cross Group Collaboration is right for you? Take our quick 12-question needs assessment. Find out your need level.

Read the Instructor Bio: Stacey Dickinson

Other courses led by by this Instructor:

• Precision Questioning
• Knowledge Transfer Workshop (formerly Peer Mentoring)
• Effective Meetings
• Cross Group Collaboration: 1-day seminar

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