How to Improve Team Collaboration
What is this course about?
Collaboration sounds easy in theory and falls apart in practice — usually for entirely predictable reasons. 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.
Key content covered
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
Run How to Improve Team Collaboration for your team
Every workshop we publish is also delivered in-house — at your premises anywhere in South Africa and beyond, at one of our venues, or live online. Before we deliver, our course designers can adapt How to Improve Team Collaboration to your team: your industry’s examples in the case work, your real challenges in the exercises, your operational rhythm in the schedule. We meet you, agree the outline together, and only then do you place the order.
In-house rates drop per delegate as the group grows — for larger teams it is usually the more affordable option as well as the better-fitting one.