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Collaborating for Results

Have greater impact on team success by breaking down barriers and achieving better, faster results. 

Are you struggling to foster a collaborative and productive work environment within your organization? Do you want to learn how to build your credibility and develop greater influence with others? In this course, you will discover effective strategies for creating a collaborative team culture, improving communication, and harnessing the power of trusting relationships to get work done. Our experienced facilitators will guide you through real-world scenarios and case studies, offering practical insights and tools that you can immediately apply to your own work environment.

How You Will Benefit

  • Develop strategies to build credibility and influence your desired outcomes
  • Breakdown barriers to team cooperation and organizational effectiveness
  • Build trusting relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and senior leaders
  • Create a collaborative work environment for faster, better results
  • Build greater credibility across your organization
  • Develop strategies to influence your desired outcomes
  • Break down barriers to team cooperation and organizational effectiveness
  • Achieve more trusting relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and leaders
  • Create a collaborative work environment for faster, better results

Course Features:

  • Self-assessment to promote awareness of personal strengths and growth areas
  • Practical tools for assessing and planning collaborative activities, communicating and getting buy-in from stakeholders
  • Opportunity to apply collaborative strategies to your own challenge
 

Who Should Attend

People and project leaders who want and need to inspire greater involvement, collaboration and business results from their direct reports, colleagues and/or stakeholders.

 

$1,245 Non Member Fee
$1,095 Member Fee
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$1,245 Non Member Fee
$1,095 Member Fee
View our pricing options
  • Date
    Location
    Time

Do you need a different date or location? We offer Courses On Request.

When colleagues learn together, everyone benefits!

Connect with an advisor to discuss delivering this course to your team.

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Course Reviews

  • Caroline S., Senior Data Advisor; EDIA Nov 9, 2025

    This course was quite a bit more useful to me as it provided tangible take-away tip, tricks, and tools that I can use right away. There was an appropriate amount of breakout rooms in comparison to direct learning also. As much as I appreciate the breakout

  • Past Participant, Site Supervisor Nov 13, 2024

    Karen was a great facilitator and presented the information well. She was friendly, personable, and did a good job keeping on track. One thing I would suggest was if the reading of the slides was aloud between the participants, it might have helped us work together as a team and made it more engaging. Overall, engagement was very good. Thank you!

  • Past Participant, Supervisor, Child & Youth Services Nov 13, 2024

    Very useful content and tools for Leaders across sectors

  • Past Participant, Project Management Lead | Strategic Partnerships Nov 13, 2024

    I will recommend this course to my colleagues

  • Dan R., Manager, IT Desk May 14, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

 Why do some collaborative efforts lead to better results, while others create more meetings, more complexity, and very little progress?

Because collaboration is not automatically useful. When people involve too many stakeholders, skip the upfront alignment, or fail to define the result they are trying to achieve, collaboration can become expensive activity instead of productive work. Strong collaboration depends on choosing the right level of involvement, getting clear on the purpose, and making sure the effort is worth the cost. Collaborating for Results helps participants think more strategically about when collaboration will move work forward and when it will simply add drag.

 Collaboration is something everyone says they want, but it still feels slow, uneven, and harder than it should be. What is usually going wrong?

Often, the problem is not a lack of good intentions. It is that people are being asked to collaborate without enough clarity, trust, shared purpose, or alignment around what success actually looks like. In many workplaces, collaboration breaks down because priorities compete, roles stay vague, people do not see enough value in participating, or no one has addressed the friction that makes cross-functional work harder in practice. Collaborating for Results helps participants identify those breakdowns and build a more deliberate, practical approach to working across teams and stakeholders.

 I work with capable people, but cross-functional efforts still stalls sometimes because everyone has their own priorities. Does this course address that kind of friction?

Yes. A common reason collaboration stalls is that people are being asked to support a shared effort without enough connection to their own goals, pressures, or constraints. When that happens, collaboration gets treated as extra work instead of meaningful work. Collaborating for Results helps participants build the credibility, communication approach, and planning discipline needed to create stronger buy-in and move people toward coordinated action.

 Sometimes when collaborating, people stay polite, but hold back, disengage, or quietly protect their own turf. Is that part of what this course addresses?

Yes. Some of the most damaging collaboration problems are subtle. People may hesitate to share information, avoid ownership, stay guarded in discussions, or go through the motions without fully engaging. Collaborating for Results helps participants recognize those patterns earlier and understand what may be driving them, so they can respond in a way that builds trust, openness, and stronger follow-through.

 I need better collaboration, but I do not want to force involvement or rely on authority. What actually gets people to engage?

What usually increases engagement is not pressure alone. It is credibility, clarity, relevance, and trust. People are more likely to collaborate when they understand the purpose, believe the effort is worthwhile, feel respected in the process, and can see how their contribution matters. Collaborating for Results helps participants create those conditions so they can build real involvement, not surface-level compliance.

 How do I know whether I need a collaboration course, an influence course, or a broader collaborative leadership course?

Choose Collaborating for Results when the work depends on people coordinating, contributing, and staying aligned across teams or stakeholders, but that collaboration keeps slowing down or breaking down in practice. Choose Getting Results Without Authority when the main challenge is influencing people you cannot direct. Choose Collaborative Leadership Skills when the need is broader, such as developing a more collaborative leadership approach overall rather than improving one area of cross-functional execution.

 We say we want collaboration, but people still protect their own priorities, withhold support, or only engage halfway.

That usually means that the collaboration has not been made concrete enough to earn real commitment. People are less likely to engage fully when expectations are unclear, the shared goal feels vague, the value of participating is weak, or the effort seems likely to create more work than progress. Collaborating for Results helps participants make collaboration more purposeful, better aligned, and easier for others to commit to in practice.

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