Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success
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Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success
This course is part of People & Soft Skills: Essential for Professional Success Specialization
Instructor: IBM Skills Network Team
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What you'll learn
Apply collaborative behaviors to help your team develop through the four stages of team development.
Utilize different methods of collaboration to improve teamwork and cooperation in your workplace.
Recognize the barriers to collaborating effectively and identify specific behaviors that enhance or damage collaboration.
Identify techniques to effectively lead or participate in virtual team meetings.
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Collaboration is not just the act of working together. It goes beyond that. Through collaboration, you can accomplish much more than what you would if you worked alone. Having the skills to communicate with the people you are working with and being able to work as a team towards your goal are just some of the skills you will learn in this course to help you collaborate effectively in the workplace.
In today's day and age, collaborating as a group does not just mean being able to see and communicate with each other in person, collaborations are done virtually all the time. This short course will teach you about some of the obstacles you may face while virtually collaborating with people and how to overcome these barriers with teamwork. In order to collaborate successfully, you have to be able to recognize and apply different methods of communication. Collaborating involves working with other people, and when working with others you need to be able to understand their behaviors and how to effectively work together as a team in order to reach your goal. This short course will help you develop the foundational soft skills to enhance the way you collaborate with your team, others in your company, business partners, and clients. This course is part of the People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success Specialization from IBM.
This module will help you to develop skills and behaviors required to enhance the way you collaborate with your team, colleagues, business partners, and clients.
What's included
19 videos19 readings1 assignment
19 videos•Total 14 minutes
- What if they hadn’t collaborated?•1 minute
- Let’s begin with the first topic•1 minute
- Recap•0 minutes
- Let’s move to the second topic•1 minute
- Recap•0 minutes
- Let’s move to the third topic•1 minute
- 1 + 1 = 3!•1 minute
- Recap•1 minute
- Let’s move to the fourth topic•2 minutes
- What’s challenging about electronic communication?•0 minutes
- Our relational space poses four typical problems•1 minute
- Recap•1 minute
- Let’s move to the fifth topic•1 minute
- New ways to collaborate•1 minute
- How can you embrace social technology for collaboration?•0 minutes
- Recap•1 minute
- Let’s move to the sixth topic•1 minute
- How can you address these problems?•0 minutes
- Recap•0 minutes
19 readings•Total 40 minutes
- What will you take away from this course?•1 minute
- Why is collaboration important in a corporate environment?•3 minutes
- Practice these six collaborative behaviors•4 minutes
- What impact might other behaviors have on collaboration?•2 minutes
- These behaviors, in moderation, also help collaboration•2 minutes
- The four stages of team development•1 minute
- Stage 1: Forming•2 minutes
- Stage 2: Storming•1 minute
- Stage 3: Norming•1 minute
- Stage 4: Performing•1 minute
- How might collaborative behaviors help your team?•2 minutes
- Let’s hear a story•4 minutes
- How can you enact these collaborative behaviors virtually?•2 minutes
- Collaboration Tools: Email•2 minutes
- Collaboration Tools: Chat•2 minutes
- Collaboration Tools: Telephone•2 minutes
- Collaboration Tools: Virtual Meeting•2 minutes
- How can you make your meetings effective?•1 minute
- How can you conduct effective virtual meetings?•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- Practice Quiz: Examples of barriers to collaboration•20 minutes
In this module you will take practice and graded quizzes to demonstrate the knowledge gained from this course.
What's included
1 reading2 assignments
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Congratulations and Next Steps.•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
- Practice Quiz: Collaborate Effectively•10 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Collaborate Effectively•30 minutes
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Reviewed on May 15, 2024
Given the complexity of the final exam, I believe more content during the instruction is appropriate.
Reviewed on Sep 18, 2024
The course provides valuable insights into effective collaboration, covering key barriers and offers practical examples. Overall, well-structured course to enhance collaborative skills.
Reviewed on Dec 2, 2025
Very much exited while learning the Course , Thank you so much for providing good training
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