Leadership Skills: Collaboration, Advanced Practices & Tools

Beyond the Common Understanding of Collaboration. Challenge Old Beliefs. Learn Advanced Principles & Practices.

What you'll learn

Be able to create a functioning collaborative team

Understand the benefits and liabilities of psychological aids such as personality assessments and the change curve

Understand, meet and enhance individual needs and contributions

Make collaboration a valued experience for all participants

Requirements

At least some team experience at work, either as leader or participant

Description

Don't label or put people into boxes, instead, help them blossom as individuals and teammates.This course: Leadership Skills: Collaboration, Advanced Practices & ToolsAfter taking this course:You will be able to create high-performing collaborative teams using proven methods while dismissing outdated and invalid tools and concepts.You will not need team building exercises to form the team. You will not need personality assessments to help people work together. Nor will you rely on bogus concepts such as the "change curve."Instead, you will learn solid psychological principles to guide your understanding of collaboration. And you will learn powerful tools to create and sustain collaborative teams.  This approach teaches you how to enhance individuality at the same time you support team functioning. This model can be used in business settings, sports, nonprofits, even families, anywhere two or more people want to support each other and achieve important goals.What makes this course different? Bob is well-trained and experienced in applying psychological tools to business needs. Debunked approaches will be replaced by solid and practical tools and concepts. Rock Solid Business Soft SkillsMy set of LEADERSHIP SKILLS courses is ideal if you want to significantly improve your soft skills as a leader, manager or employee. Each course presents a specific topic; you’ll dive deeply into the content and emerge with newly acquired ideas and rock-solid soft skills. Many of the ideas and skills are unique to this set of courses.Business is a balancing act of controlling and enabling others. As a leader/manager, you must be in charge, but also encourage the best from every worker. As you know, this isn’t easy. Make a mistake or two and everyone suffers. Rock solid skills have clear steps, easily followed and measured. And if you aspire to leadership, these skills will propel you upward.My courses follow that old saying, "if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." I teach both skills and concepts. If you want both training and an education, this is the place, tools and ideas. Each course provides ideas to explore and skills to try out. You choose the topic and in about three hours or less, you’ll acquire rock solid soft skills enabling you to support and inspire your employees. Double asterisks (**) around a section or lecture denotes core material.This series of Leadership Skills courses is ideal for these topics: Entrepreneurship, Communication Skills, Management Skills, Business Fundamentals, Leadership Skills, Manager Training, Conflict Management, Change Management and Influence.

Overview

Section 1: Please Start Here

Lecture 1 The Doctor Bob Difference

Lecture 2 The Leadership Skills Series

Section 2: Introduction to Collaboration

Lecture 3 Introduction

Lecture 4 What it Is

Lecture 5 How Does it Work?

Lecture 6 What Good is It for Individuals?

Lecture 7 What Good is It for Teams?

Lecture 8 What Good is It for Organizations?

Lecture 9 What Other Benefits are There?

Lecture 10 What are the Must Haves to Make it Work?

Section 3: A Solid Foundation for Collaboration

Lecture 11 Introduction

Lecture 12 Determine the Issue

Lecture 13 Define the Goal

Lecture 14 List Hurdles and Concerns

Lecture 15 List Possible Solutions

Lecture 16 Choose Best Solution

Lecture 17 Design the Collaborative Team

Section 4: Creating the Collaborative Process

Lecture 18 Introduction

Lecture 19 The Ideal Team Leader

Lecture 20 The Team; Makeup and Basic Rules

Lecture 21 Team Operations: The Four-Part Model & Five Dysfunctions

Lecture 22 Agree to Disagree?

Lecture 23 Organizational Support

Section 5: Team Functioning

Lecture 24 High Performing vs. Collaborative Teams

Lecture 25 Activity

Lecture 26 A Bit More on Influence and Reward

Section 6: Collaboration Results

Lecture 27 Introduction

Lecture 28 Expected Results

Lecture 29 More Expected Results

Lecture 30 Postmortem

Section 7: Rules of Thumb

Lecture 31 Introduction

Lecture 32 Value Added Effort

Lecture 33 Speak Less Than 1/n

Lecture 34 Never Debate Solutions

Lecture 35 Stay in Your Lane

Lecture 36 Own the Process and the Outcome

Lecture 37 Communicate in Circles

Lecture 38 Everyone is Right Except When…

Lecture 39 All are Equal Except When…

Lecture 40 Kanban Like Crazy

Lecture 41 Locally Owned

Section 8: Extras

Lecture 42 Introduction

Lecture 43 Change Curve

Lecture 44 Personality Measures

Lecture 45 Electronic Communication and Workspace

Lecture 46 How to do a Collaborative Workshop

Section 9: Next Steps

Lecture 47 Seal the Deal

Lecture 48 Thank You

The course is intended for people interested in creating and/or being on high-performing teams with superior working relationships.