Collaboration
- 3 Courses | 1h 12m 54s
- 7 Books | 17h 56m
- 8 Audiobooks | 37h 20m 11s
Strong collaboration is vital to creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Foster collaboration among your teams for growth and innovation. Today, collaboration is a big theme in business because it works. Here, you'll learn how to leverage your staff's individual talents and create a more cohesive work environment.
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Building Rapport through Strong Collaboration
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Building Rapport through Strong Collaboration
Learning to collaborate well can help you manage the inevitable conflicts that arise in any relationship. And this holds true even in the workplace. Well-managed conflicts can be a healthy practice and valuable for both self-growth and business growth, giving you an opportunity to learn others' interests and perspectives, and teaching you how to approach all interactions with empathy. In this course, you'll learn to identify the strong interpersonal skills that help in successful collaboration. You'll also learn to identify ground rules and boundaries that will help you keep difficult conversations on track, effective strategies to defuse conflict before it goes out of control, and methods to help you create win-win situations in interpersonal conflicts.
6 videos |
22m
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Encouraging Team Communication and Collaboration
Managing teams successfully involves ensuring that team members can communicate with you and with one another and that they will collaborate effectively as a team. To achieve this, clear channels of communication are required for both on-site and virtual teams. In this course, you'll learn how to demonstrate team leadership by encouraging effective communication and overcoming communication problems. You'll explore strategies for encouraging team collaboration. Finally, you'll learn about tools and technologies that are commonly used for virtual teamwork and key considerations for establishing virtual communication guidelines.
8 videos |
21m
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PMI PDU
Becoming a Successful Collaborator
When organizations are recruiting, one of the top skills they look for in a candidate is their ability to collaborate. Today's hiring managers know that collaboration leads to improved problem-solving, increased productivity and promotes interconnected team members who share expertise and learn from one another. Defining collaboration is tricky because it means different things across industries, departments and roles. In this course you'll learn about the meaning of collaboration, the concept of teaming in collaboration, and best practices for being a good team member and for being a successful collaborator. You'll examine conflict management styles to determine which one is yours, and the impact on your team.
6 videos |
28m
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PMI PDU
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Book
Opening Doors to Teamwork and CollaborationDescribing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together, this book shows how organizations can generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together.
1h
By Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz
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Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo BusterShowing you how to recognize and change erroneous beliefs and actions regarding collaboration, this book helps readers develop a collaborative culture where failures are turned into successes, and breakthrough results are achieved at every level.
1h 40m
By Eunice Parisi-Carew, Jane Ripley, Ken Blanchard
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Working at a Distance: A Global Business Model for Virtual Team CollaborationOrganizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. This timely book provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers, professionals, teachers or students involved globally with such initiatives.
2h 51m
By Cassandra J. Smith
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42 Rules for Successful Collaboration: A Practical Approach to Working with People, Processes, and Technology, 2nd EditionProviding a holistic view on collaboration, this book shows how people who are on teams separated geographically, or anyone that has to work with other people at a distance every day can gain a much better idea of how to be successful in their interactions with others via the computer.
1h 55m
By David Coleman
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The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work, 2nd EditionBy sharing the success stories of socially engaged companies and people, this book persuasively makes the case for using social media to encourage knowledge transfer and real-time learning in a connected and engaging way.
4h 59m
By Marcia Conner, Tony Bingham
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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or TrustTeaching us how to work with people whom we might not like or trust, this timely book outlines the five misunderstandings that keep people from effectively collaborating with those people and shows readers how they can successfully engage with positive results instead.
2h
By Adam Kahane
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The Power of Collaboration: Powerful Insights from Silicon Valley to Successfully Grow Groups, Strengthen Alliances, and Boost Team PotentialShowing how any company, anywhere, can adapt to achieve its goals, this cutting-edge book combines the author's longstanding expertise with innovative thinking, research, and focused interviews to provide a practical framework for the next epoch of collaboration.
3h 31m
By Thea Singer Spitzer
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and CollaborationWritten by two masters of comedy and improv, Yes, And uses hilarious but insightful real-life anecdotes to show how improv can be incorporated into the business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m 57s
By Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThe Genius of Opposites explains how to thrive in an introvert/extrovert business partnership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 55s
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don'tLeaders Eat Last provides a compass for aspiring leaders wishing to really make a difference and point their teams in one direction-toward success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 55s
By Simon Sinek
Audiobook
Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough CollaborationThis audio edition reveals the keys to the kind of collaboration that allows teams to reach their full creative potential and maximize their results.
6h 45m 7s
By Leigh Thompson
Audiobook
Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking With People Who Think DifferentlyThrough a series of practices and strategies, this audio edition shows us how to recognize our own mind patterns and map the talents of our teams, with the goal of embarking together on an aligned course of action and influence.
8h 47m 29s
By Angie McArthur, Dawna Markova
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Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative WorldThis audio edition provides practical advice for building better, more productive business relationships.
7h 5m 2s
By Andre Alphonso, Anne Baber, Jim Wylde, Lynne Waymon
Audiobook
The Bullseye Principle: Mastering Intention-Based Communication to Collaborate, Execute, and SucceedThis audio edition gives you a solid blueprint for effective communication in nearly any situation.
9h 17m 24s
By David Lewis, G. Riley Mills
Audiobook
Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a TimeThis audio edition will help organizations become more adaptive, collaborative and innovative, which is vital in today's highly competitive and constantly-evolving world.
4h 42m 22s
By Samantha Slade
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