Constructive Collaboration, Short Course | Part time online | Northwestern University | United States
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Constructive Collaboration

5 days
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6500 USD/full
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About

You’ll explore in the Constructive Collaboration program from Northwestern University, 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.

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
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

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

More details

START: September 23 at 8:00 AM; END: September 27 at 12:00 PM

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Academic 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/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 6500 USD for the full programme during 5 days.
  • National

    6500 USD/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 6500 USD for the full programme during 5 days.

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