Taking the Pain Out of Collaboration: Tips & Best Practices

You got tapped by your boss to join a project focused on a new idea that will take your company to new heights. You will be working with people from across the organization to ensure the idea has a leg. You should be excited, but you only feel a pit in your stomach as you worry about how to successfully collaborate across teams. Ugh!

Don’t worry, I’m here to help you through it! I created this practical Udemy course to prepare you to lead or participate in a cross-team collaboration. This course includes step-by-step guidance about what to do before, during and after a cross-team collaboration. In my course, I am sharing the same frameworks and protocols that helped me successfully navigate my years working with companies including: American Express, Lexus, Marriott, Fidelity, and Fast Company. What’s more, by the end of this course you will understand why strong collaboration skills can help build your professional network, expand your business knowledge and fuel your career growth.

Specifically, this course will show you how to:

• Design comprehensive goals and performance measures for your collaboration

• Develop a communications and reporting protocol

• Solicit participants and experts for your collaboration

• Establish a timeline and progress markers

• Invite and engage senior leaders in your project

• Create a strong team culture for your collaboration

• Keep track of the team’s roles and responsibilities

• Communicate clearly with stakeholders invested in your project

• Set clear goals and expectations for the team

• Wrap up a collaboration for maximum impact

Successfully collaborating with others has never been more important than right now. Combatting the COVID-19 global pandemic has required businesses of all types to bring people and resources together to solve challenges threatening lives and livelihoods. We are clearly better together.

But even before the pandemic, The World Economic Forum and Deloitte cited collaboration and partnership as critical success-drivers in business. Forward-thinking organizations are seeking professionals with more “human skills” such as: critical thinking, creativity, initiative, persuasion and negotiation. These are the skills that cut down on political-posturing, land-grabbing and other patterns that destroy organizations.

Collaboration with others is an excellent way to strengthen your “human skills” and in turn, build your career and marketability.

This course is filled with personal anecdotes from my decades of experience building strategic partnerships between Fortune 500 companies. I also provide clear guidance on what to do before, during and after a cross-team collaboration project and practical exercises that you can implement in your next group project.

Enroll today to elevate your collaboration acumen — the leadership skill of the future!