Collaboration and Emotional Intelligence

How effective are you at working with people through cooperation and teamwork? Collaboration takes place when people come together to cooperate and work on a strategic project so as to accomplish a common goal. Collaboration is productive teamwork taken to a higher level. Determine how to build more collaborative relationships through cooperation and effective teamwork using your emotional intelligence.

In effective collaboration, all people involved use their emotional intelligence well to balance emotional needs with their thinking, build authentic relationships and make good quality decisions on behalf of the organisation.

Whether working with others one-to-one, in small groups or large teams, there is exemplary communication with empathy that engages hearts and minds.

Most often collaboration happens within fairly small teams - functional teams, time-limited project teams or cross-functional management teams. This occurs at all levels within an organisation.

This course is about collaborating with others in ways that will help you to communicate more efficiently as you work to understand and work with differences that lead to effective collaboration. In addition, the skills, processes and tools taught in this course can bring value to other aspects of your life.

The course covers all aspects of collaborative working focusing on win-win collaboration where everyone benefits. The characteristics, principles and modes of collaboration are examined to give you a much broader insight into getting the best from collaboration. The course covers team building and leadership fundamentals that enable you to collaborate with emotional intelligence.

Learn key strategies to build and sustain successful teams with emotional intelligence.

The course, also, covers trust and how you can build trust as you work together with others.

Behavioural styles are reviewed looking at the strengths and liabilities of each. You get the opportunity to complete a questionnaire that will give you an insight to the behavioural style that you prefer to use with the chance to explore how your style can help and how it can hinder collaboration. Completing this practical activity will enable you to how to use your behavioural preferences and style to better effect when collaborating within a project.

Use collaborative tools and techniques to achieve a higher level of communication and develop effective approaches to problem-solving and conflict resolution fundamental to effective leadership.

This course is a standalone course for anyone interested in understanding collaboration at work and how to get more from collaborative relationships. It compliments other courses that explore emotional intelligence in more depth.