Overview
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 also learn the conditions for successful collaboration across companies and cultures in joint ventures, mergers and alliances.
In the Constructive Collaboration program at the Northwestern University you will:
- 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
Programme Structure
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
- 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
- Build coalitions for healthy organizations
- Create smart collaborative alliances
- Learn about networks as bridges and barriers to collaboration
- Develop a personal collaboration action plan
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
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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START: September 23 at 8:00 AM; END: September 27 at 12:00 PM
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Disciplines
Marketing Management Studies View 147 other Short Courses in Marketing in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Who Should Attend:
- 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.
Tuition Fee
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International
6500 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6500 USD for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
6500 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6500 USD for the full programme during 5 days.