Collaborative Leadership

In today’s economy, organizations and communities that can tap into the knowledge, skills and expertise of their people, in essence their "human capital", have a huge strategic advantage. Collaborative Leadership builds a leader's ability to harness the full potential of their groups and teams.

Collaborative Leadership builds a manager's competencies of team leadership, collaboration and facilitation. Leaders will be introduced to a set of practical and tangible tools for building and coaching teams, facilitating decision making and problem solving. Further, participants learn to become collaborative and effective team leaders. 

• Launch high performance teams
• Tools that get results
• Set goals and objectives
• Understand motivation
• Engage groups in decision making
• Leverage conflict to increase performance
• Conduct effective meetings

• Addressed my goal of empowering and encouraging participation with my team. Also provides tools and perspectives on daily management skills.   
• I learned how to facilitate and prepare for meetings
• Engaging – learned more about my style and how to work/communicate with others better
• It gave me tools and ideas to be a better leader

High Performance Teams

• Characteristics of a high performance team
• Integrating efforts - roles and goals
• Tools for enhancing team performance
• Manage group dynamics

Facilitative Leadership

• Apply the fundamentals principles of facilitation
• Understand the role of a facilitative leader
• Help task groups achieve their goals
• Learn four core facilitation processes

Problem Solving

• Problem solving methods
• Root cause analysis
• Facilitating group problem solving
• Links to decision making

Decision Making

• Three core decision making methods
• Facilitated approach to consensus decision making
• Introduction to rational decision making

Action Planning

• Elements of an action plan - task and controls
• Risk analysis
• Planning challenges - over planning or under planning
• Group context for planning

Effective Meetings

• Types of meetings
• Four key outcomes of meetings
• Tools for conducting effective meetings

This workshop will be of interest to team leaders, people leaders, HR professionals, and managers.  Anyone that must help task groups achieve their goals 

• I think it’s important to shed light on how to lead a team and  collaborative leadership and motivation
• The materials presented in the delivery of the training was outstanding!
• I am able to apply some of the models now
• I see a better way of leading the team