The Collaborative Leader

  • 8 Courses | 2h 39m 35s
  • 14 Books | 27h 41m
  • 4 Audiobooks | 15h 22m 11s
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Collaboration is critical to the success of any team and organization. Learn how to promote collaboration within your team and among other teams in the organization.

COURSES INCLUDED

Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
1 video | 4m available Badge
Fostering Cross-functional Collaboration
In the fast-paced and ever-evolving business world, the ability to effectively collaborate across functions is crucial for organizational success. Leadership plays a pivotal role in unifying diverse teams, ensuring seamless communication and alignment, and harnessing the collective intelligence of cross-functional teams. A skilled leader who understands the nuances of cross-functional dynamics can inspire synergy, optimize performance, and navigate the challenges inherent in collaborative environments. In this course, you will learn strategies to navigate the intricacies of managing cross-functional teams with confidence. You'll learn about cross-functional collaboration, the benefits it has to offer, and the essential leadership skills that are vital for its success. You will also learn about the challenges faced by cross-functional teams and techniques to overcome them. And finally, you will discover the strategies and best practices for successful cross-functional collaboration.
6 videos | 23m has Assessment available Badge
The Collaborative Leader
In today's business world, working together is key to success. In this course, you'll learn how to lead collaboratively, improve collaboration in your team, and reach across boundaries to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
7 videos | 42m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
When Collaboration Fails and How to Fix It, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain the six patterns of collaborative disfunction and how to fix these failures.
2 videos | 9m has Assessment available Badge
Leadership Insights on Leading Collaboratively
Collaborative leadership requires reciprocity, humility, and modeling collaboration for team members. Discover tools leaders can use to foster collaboration.
13 videos | 33m available Badge
Building and Delivering a Great Virtual Presentation
Crafting and delivering exceptional virtual presentations isn't merely a skill; it's a strategic imperative in this digital age. As the lines between physical and virtual communication blur, whether you're a business leader, educator, salesperson, or creative professional, your prowess in building and delivering compelling virtual presentations can significantly amplify your influence, foster engagement, and propel you to success. In this course, you will learn to recognize effective strategies to build content for a virtual presentation, identify the key considerations to create the slides for a virtual presentation, identify effective strategies to deliver an engaging virtual presentation, and recognize the effective strategies to overcome common pitfalls in virtual presentations.
6 videos | 27m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Five Ways to Make Your One-On-One Meetings More Effective, powered by MIT SMR
This course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the importance of one-on-one meetings and how to structure them effectively.
2 videos | 10m has Assessment available Badge
Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren't We Teaching It?, powered by MIT SMR
Research finds that despite the importance of collaboration, most organizations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills. Nowadays, it has become essential for organizations to focus on workplace collaboration. This can help them in many ways, like helping new employees adjust to the culture quickly, reducing employee turnover, and gaining a competitive advantage. Leaders should make it a priority to help their employees develop collaboration skills.
2 videos | 9m has Assessment available Badge
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Cross-Functional Collaboration
In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to improve your company's cross-functional collaboration and how you can leverage common goals and strategies to enhance it.
book Duration 26m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about the growing importance of corporate collaboration and boards of directors to sustainable business. .
book Duration 36m book Authors By David Kiron, Georg Kell, Knut Haanaes, Martin Reeves, Nina Kruschwitz, Sonja-Katrin Fuisz-Kehrbach

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how through analytics, companies can reduce overload, attrition, and other costs of collaboration - and increase its rewards.
book Duration 14m book Authors By Peter Gray, Rob Cross, Thomas H. Davenport

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how alternating between always-on connectivity and heads-down focus is essential for problem-solving.
book Duration 17m book Authors By David Lazer, Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on A Noble Purpose Alone Won't Transform Your Company
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn that it is a common misconception that a sense of purpose is what matters most when it comes to engaging employees. Leadership behaviors that nurture interpersonal collaboration are the true drivers of change.
book Duration 13m book Authors By Amy Edmondson, Rob Cross, Wendy Murphy

BOOK SUMMARY

Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and Collaboration
Leader's Don't Command offers you the tools to uncover your best leadership strengths that will have others looking to you as a respected leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 9m book Authors By Jorge Cuervo

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The Reciprocity Advantage: A New Way to Partner for Innovation and Growth
The Reciprocity Advantage uses engaging real-world case studies to describe innovative ways for businesses to share and partner to achieve greater individual success and growth, at low risk. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Bob Johansen, Karl Ronn

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Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work, Revised Edition
Including skill-building exercises, and dozens of personal stories and examples, this guide provides the tools and techniques needed to build sustaining partnerships and make today's collaborative organizations work.
book Duration 5h 52m book Authors By Gervase R. Bushe

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Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and Collaboration
Presenting information in bite-size chapters and to-do lists, this acclaimed book shows managers how to navigate through the fog in their brains and the overworked staff sitting in front of them to be more creative and flexible.
book Duration 2h 44m book Authors By Jorge Cuervo

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The Art and Skill of Collaborative Leadership
With a clear definition of what collaborative leadership is, this book explains how to create a collaborative environment, when to use collaborative leadership, and discusses the future of collaborative leadership.
book Duration 20m book Authors By Beryl Harman, Sue Stein

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Collaborative Leadership: How to Succeed in an Interconnected World
Distilling leadership lessons from successful collaborations, this book explains the building blocks you need to set up partnerships properly and get them working effectively, and examines the new skills you need to develop as a collaborative leader.
book Duration 4h 37m book Authors By Alex Cameron, David Archer

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Building the Team Organization: How to Open Minds, Resolve Conflict, and Ensure Cooperation
Providing a practical model for developing methods and approaches for successful collaboration, this concise book explains productive teamwork to show readers how they can work together effectively with their colleagues, leaders, and organizational partners.
book Duration 3h 24m book Authors By Dean Tjosvold, Mary Tjosvold

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Dialogue in Organizations: Developing Relational Leadership
A call for serious inquiry into the nature and quality of our relating within organizations, this book concerns the two academic and practice fields of relational leadership and dialogue and how both might lend insight to the other in service of addressing these issues.
book Duration 5h 26m book Authors By Megan Reitz

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Faster Together: Accelerating Your Team's Productivity
Presenting the author's FAST model that mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be while keeping each other's best interests at heart, this book will help you to truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go.
book Duration 3h 13m book Authors By Laura Stack
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and Collaboration
Leader's Don't Command offers you the tools to uncover your best leadership strengths that will have others looking to you as a respected leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 17m 33s audiobook Authors By Jorge Cuervo

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
In Collaboration, author Morten T. Hansen draws on his widespread exploration into the art of collaboration to present a book that will transform the manner in which you approach collaboration. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 11m 10s audiobook Authors By Morten T. Hansen

Audiobook

Faster Together: Accelerating Your Team's Productivity
This audio edition will help you to truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 6h 29m 14s audiobook Authors By Laura Stack

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Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos
This audio edition delivers an authoritative case for the value of collaboration to today's professionals, their firms, and their clients and shows you exactly how to achieve it.
audiobook Duration 8h 24m 14s audiobook Authors By Heidi K. Gardner
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
6m    |   6 questions