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Collaboration Skills at Work
One-day course materials for teaching collaboration skills at work
Overview
This one-day course covers what collaborative working involves, the soft skills behind it — listening, emotional intelligence, communication, time management — and how to build a collaborative environment in the office or remotely. The pack gives a trainer a slide-by-slide script, group activities, a participant workbook and handouts; everything is editable, so sections such as the leadership module can be kept or cut to fit the audience.
Format. One day. Designed for classroom delivery and adaptable to live online sessions.
Who it is for. Open level for anyone who wants to improve how they collaborate at work; one module is aimed at leaders, HR and line managers and can be removed for general audiences.
What delegates take away
- Describe what effective collaborative working looks like and the benefits it brings.
- Identify and apply the skills that support collaboration, including listening, emotional intelligence and time management.
- Recognize introvert and extrovert working styles and bridge the gap between them.
- Take practical steps to develop a collaborative environment across a team or organization.
- Adapt collaboration practices for virtual and remote working.
- Build a personal collaboration skills action plan to follow after the session.
Course outline
Defines collaboration, distinguishes it from cooperation, and examines what makes a team, team diversity, types of collaboration and the benefits of collaborative working.
Works through emotional intelligence and the Johari Window, listening levels with a practice exercise, the introvert-extrovert gap and the time management matrix, ending with the Space Station Exploration Challenge team activity.
Aimed at leaders, HR and line managers, this section covers the layers of organizational collaboration and the characteristics of collaborative leadership, and can be removed for other audiences.
Addresses the extra challenges of remote collaboration, virtual collaboration tools, and ten good virtual communication practices.
Participants build a six-step personal skills development action plan to pursue after the session, followed by a recap of the objectives.
What is in the kit
Slide deck
44 editable widescreen PowerPoint slides covering the full one-day session, including activity and break slides
Trainer notes
72-page slide-by-slide facilitator guide with session design, timings, suggested trainer wording, activity instructions and Q&A prompts
MIZAN Edition field guide
Updated research with sources, two GCC-context case studies, three new activities, an AI-era section and a 30-day transfer plan
Participant workbook
Word workbook with note-taking prompts and activity pages, licensed for unlimited reprinting for delegates
Handouts
Three activity handouts: a collaboration skills action plan, an introvert v extrovert behaviors reference, and the Space Station Exploration Challenge team exercise
Certificates
Certificate of attendance in digital-signature and printable formats, plus a CPD certificate of completion template with a completed example
Feedback form
Editable end-of-course evaluation form
Sign-in sheet
Attendance sign-in sheet for course records
Online delivery guide
Guidance for running the session remotely over videoconferencing platforms
Pre-course preparation guide
Trainer briefing covering pack contents, the color coding used in the notes, and how to prepare workbooks and printed slides
Dual formats
Every document supplied in both editable Word/PowerPoint and PDF versions
Editions
The license in one sentence
Buy once, deliver the course as often as you like to as many delegates as you like, edit anything, add your own branding — you only may not resell or redistribute the materials themselves. Every download is stamped with your name, tier and order number. Full license terms
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