[LPIA] Cultivating Cross-Team Collaboration and Innovation (Classroom & Asynchronous)
About This Course
When experts in different domains come together, breakthroughs happen.
Some of the finest innovations come from cross-disciplinary thinking: origami inspired medical devices, carpentry led to toy blocks, and telegraph cables influenced the creation of solar panels.
Yet, diverse teams often find themselves seduced by the comfort and safety of silos.
To create breakthrough solutions for your customers, you’ll need to foster both deep expertise and cross-team innovation. Learn how to do that through communication skills that cultivate cross-team synergy.
Cultivating Cross-Team Collaboration and Innovation is a course designed to empower people managers, team leads, and business leaders with practical skills that steer transformative change.
In this course, you will:
- Cultivate essential communication and negotiation skills that nurture trust, manage conflicts, and effectively engage stakeholders across diverse teams.
- Analyze distinct team needs and motivations to develop win-win solutions.
- Develop influencing prowess that fosters interpersonal and team-based trust, facilitates honest conversations, and propels cross-team synergy.
Sign up for this course now and break down the silos that stand in the way of stellar performance.
What You'll Learn
- Identify how individual mindsets and beliefs can enhance or inhibit our ability to collaborate effectively.
- Develop effective communication and negotiation skills to cultivate trust, facilitate honest conversations, resolve conflicts, and synergize cross-team collaboration.
- Analyze the needs and motivations of different teams, and identify competing and complementary priorities.
- Adopt an integrative thinking approach to collaboration, to better understand how opposing perspectives can be turned into stronger solutions.
- Adopt a systems thinking perspective to understand the role of rewards, incentives, organizational structures, and office layout in creating a culture of collaboration.
- Learn to solve problems for customers and colleagues using a user-centered, design-thinking methodology.
Entry Requirements
- Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
- Able to commit to the full duration of the programme