Constructive Collaboration

Kellogg School of Management

Leadership

About Programme

Collaboration well done — whether at the individual, team or enterprise level —sparks creative problem solving and powers value creation. In this intense, interactive program, you’ll learn the why, what and how of collaboration in the workplace — the strategic rationale, design requirements and critical insights necessary for success in both internal initiatives and across companies and cultures in joint ventures, mergers and alliances.

You’ll explore personal collaboration styles, behaviors and approaches for working with business partners, colleagues, competitors and customers. From a team perspective, you’ll examine the multiple interests and perspectives that challenge effective collaboration in departmental and interdepartmental initiatives.

Leigh Thompson / Academic Director

Programme Content

Designing Collaboration

Learn how collaboration drives value in complex organizations

Understand the challenges of instilling of collaboration as a key management competency

Design distributed teamwork: distance teamwork, trust and communication

Encourage creative conflict that fuels productivity, while minimizing conflict that interferes with it

Collaborative Decision-Making

Understand the strategy, structure and behavior of collaboration

Manage multifunctional, multi-incentive teams for high performance

Understand challenges in collaboration: communication, clarity and stress

Learn tools to resolve conflict and improve decision-making

Collaborating across Diverse Teams, Companies and Cultures

Build coalitions for healthy organizations

Create smart collaborative alliances

Learn about networks as bridges and barriers to collaboration

Develop a personal collaboration action plan

Programme Audience

Mid-level to senior executives, Federal Government managers who coordinate activities among multiple constituencies, or who serve in key cross-functional roles

Individuals seeking to enhance collaboration with business partners, clients and peers

Team leaders and others who drive business development, manage joint ventures, oversee postmerger or acquisition integration, or manage channel partner performance

Programme Benefits

Hone your collaboration skills

Assess and value collaboration and then articulate and sell that value to clients, partners and stakeholders

Construct a personal development plan for continuous improvement

Identify and create value through analysis of stakeholders’ perspectives and interests

Design collaborative structures to maximize constructive conflict and minimize destructive conflict

Testimonials

"In addition to having outstanding faculty, the reading material, applied learning, and the diversity of the participants all contributed to a rich experience."

Anonymous

"Excellent faculty and choice of exercises to gain experience collaborating between individuals, teams, departments and organizations. I was able to implement the learning immediately into my work."

Anonymous

"The tools I took with me from Constructive Collaboration have been among the most useful of all of my executive education programs. Unhealthy alliances that were draining profitability from my company have fallen apart. The workplace culture has improved; new collaborations have been established that are culminating with the addition of a multi million dollar managed services agreement that represents an amount of growth that was simply not possible while I was struggling to deal with the coalition of professional adversaries I had encountered. Thank you for the tools the program provided, which allowed me to more effectively understand what I was dealing with and how to form good collaborations of my own to counter it."

Anonymous

Testimonial Source

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Pedagogy (case method, experiential learning, coaching, simulations)
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Prashansa Uttam

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Kellogg School of Management

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