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Communication and Collaboration

  • Communication – what communication styles are and why they are important for effectively communicating goals, motivating, and interacting with teams and colleagues
  • Components of effective communication
  • Effective messaging – tools and techniques


The Modern “Manager” – models of team collaboration and team self-organisation

  • If people "want to want to," the whole team has a chance to perform well
  • The "desire" to make decisions independently
  • We aim for the same goal
  • What people want is one thing; what they can do is another
  • Supporting effective team self-organisation as a system
  • Learning through experience


Communication – Fundamentals:

  • principles of effective communication,
  • leadership style and reactions,
  • pro-active communication
  • barriers and distortions,
  • feedback
  • tools and techniques for effective communication.


Roles and communication styles:

  • diagnosing and identifying preferred roles and communication styles
  • effective communication between roles and communication styles,
  • colour codes in communication – the foundation for effective collaboration


Conflicts:

  • issues and conflicts – characteristics and potential causes,
  • the "Conflict Spiral",
  • effective problem and conflict resolution


Communication with the external environment:

  • the communication process,
  • communication planning,
  • information management,
  • external communication,
  • Partnership and collaboration within the organisation - SRMM® model
    - Maturity model levels
  • Ad hoc
  • Procedural
  • Relational
  • Integrated
  • Predictive
  • Who do I collaborate with?
    - Partner Identification
    - Mapping interactions with Partners
    - Improvement plans

Summary - good and bad practices in communication and team management

Requirements

The training is designed to be interactive, with participant involvement exceeding 80% of the time. Each session follows a similar structure: an opening exercise to foster new habits and build awareness, a mini-lecture on techniques to impart knowledge, and an exercise to practice new tactics and techniques. After each session, participants receive supporting materials related to the topic covered. Practical content is reinforced with mini-lectures that provide theoretical foundations and explain the underlying psychological mechanisms experienced during the training.

 14 Hours

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