HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY COLLABORATE WITHIN AND ACROSS TEAMS AND DEPARTMENTS

Collaboration in teams and cross-functional integration are prerequisites for increasing collaboration, communication, knowledge sharing, and well-being in an organization. It helps leaders and employees use their skills and creativity with a view to innovation and the common good of the organization. Since collaboration consists of relationships, the key to good collaboration in teams, departments, and across departments rests on understanding relationships and creating good relationships.

On a daily basis, we typically do not work alone. Hence, the views and perspectives of others are part of the working day. This applies to collaboration on projects, daily practice, visions and strategy work, and much more.

Although collaboration can be difficult therein people see things differently, the success rate of collaboration increases significantly when we go a step deeper in understanding why people think differently and how these thoughts have arisen. Raising the mindset, as well as having insight into one’s own and others’ ways of looking at things, requires conscious life leadership, which paves the way for a fruitful collaboration.

Cross-Unit Collaboration Increases along with Awareness of Logics, Beliefs, and Ways of Seeing the World

It has many names: cross-functional integration, cross-departmental collaboration, or collaboration in and across units. Whichever names you prefer – beliefs bound in particular perspectives and logics – have been shown to have an enormous effect on the success of interprofessional collaboration and collaboration across the board. This particular field has for years been part of my own research field, and we know a lot from research and practice about what works well and what works less well.

In this course, you will learn, among other things: What are dominant logics, how do dominant logics govern practice in daily work in organizations; including knowledge sharing and communication – and how can you use this knowledge to create great working conditions for collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing? My research on cross-functional integration and collaboration differs from usual research in the field by being practice-based; i.e. that it starts from, and is based on, real everyday life in an organization. In this way, we translate theoretical understanding into concrete knowledge that is directly applicable to everyday organizational work. It is entirely up to you whether the focus is placed on collaboration in general or more specifically on collaboration across units.

Create Understanding and New Practices for Collaboration within and Across Teams and Departments

In this course, you are given the framework for understanding, viewing, and practicing collaboration with new eyes. You get an analytical sharp eye to read different people and situations. In addition, I give you a practical understanding of what actions the various situations require of you and others in order to succeed.

Collaboration requires conscious life leadership with others, and it starts with understanding oneself and one’s own beliefs. This makes it so much easier to understand other people’s points of view and to be tolerant and curious in the context of collaboration. With conscious life leadership, as well as a keen eye for barriers to interprofessional collaboration, you have renewed insight and are ready to navigate relationships and collaborate with different professionals.

As people experience greater opportunities to live out their potential –  the level of collaboration, knowledge sharing, communication, creativity, well-being, and innovation, will increase accordingly.

Call 5059 5013 to talk about how this may help your organization.

 

Courses and workshops are held for both leaders and employees – together or separately – and the content is coordinated accordingly.

They span from approx. 4 hours to 2 weeks – the latter giving a thorough introduction to collaboration, cross-departmental collaboration, and conscious life leadership – in both theory and practice.