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How to Improve Team Collaboration

Collaboration sounds easy in theory and falls apart in practice — usually for entirely predictable reasons.

About the course

This 1-day Staff Training workshop for leaders explores VUCA-era leadership demands, helps delegates recognise their own natural leadership style, and works through practical tools for both everyday and large-scale collaboration. It also names the common pitfalls that derail collaborative teams and how to avoid them. The result: leaders who can genuinely harness team input instead of just asking for it.

What it covers

What is expected from leaders today?

Explaining the need for VUCA leadership and what it means
What is collaboration?
The benefits of better collaboration

The basic requirements for developing a collaborative leadership approach

Creating the required environment for a collaborative team
What is necessary to keep everyone engaged in the process

Your Personal Style

Understanding your own natural style of leadership and your personal challenges to the collaborative style
Body Language Tips and communication approaches to Collaboration

How to Collaborate

The Process
Tools for larger collaborations
Tools for everyday collaboration
Using influence and persuasion wisely
Using the technology at our disposal

The Pitfalls of Collaboration

Understanding where collaboration goes wrong
Understanding why it can go wrong
Tools to avoid collaboration going wrong
Speeding collaboration up with clear communication

Course outline (PDF)

Run it for your team

We can adapt How to Improve Team Collaboration to your industry and your people’s real situations, and run it at your premises, at our venue or as a virtual workshop. We agree the outline with you before you order, and the rate per delegate drops as the group grows.