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Getting the Most Out of Your Team: Collaboration Skills

Getting the Most Out of Your Team: Collaboration Skills

This course is part of Career Effectiveness: Balance, Networking & Collaboration Specialization

Instructor: Evan Kimbrell

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

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2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Create clearer team norms, roles, and decision processes that reduce confusion and rework
Run better meetings, use async communication well, and keep stakeholders aligned
Improve collaboration across tools, time zones, and conflict situations over time

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This course is part of the Career Effectiveness: Balance, Networking & Collaboration Specialization

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Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
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There are 4 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn how to make team collaboration clearer, smoother, and more productive. You’ll build practical skills for creating team charters and working norms, clarifying roles and decision rights, running better meetings, choosing async alternatives, and keeping stakeholders aligned over time. You’ll also learn how to improve collaboration across time zones, reduce confusion in shared tools and documentation, handle conflict more constructively, and use retrospectives to strengthen how teams work together.

What makes this course unique is that it treats collaboration as a real operating system for teams, not just a soft skill. Instead of focusing only on communication tips or meeting advice in isolation, it shows how clarity, facilitation, alignment rituals, tool hygiene, psychological safety, and continuous improvement all connect. The approach is practical, modern, and designed for real workplace environments where teams are cross-functional, distributed, and under pressure to deliver. Whether you are a team member, project lead, manager, or cross-functional collaborator, this course will help you become the kind of person who makes teamwork noticeably better.

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3 videos9 readings2 assignments

3 videosTotal 17 minutes

Team Charters & Norms5 minutes
Role Clarity & Decision Frameworks (DACI/RACI)6 minutes
Conflict Styles & Psychological Safety Micro-Behaviors6 minutes

9 readingsTotal 185 minutes

Example Pack: 15 Strong Team Norms That Prevent Common Collaboration Problems10 minutes
Worksheet: Team Charter Builder15 minutes
Going deeper into team charters, norms, and working agreements40 minutes
Common Ownership Mistakes That Slow Teams Down10 minutes
Worksheet: Simple RACI Matrix for a Cross-Functional Project10 minutes
Making role clarity and decision ownership more practical40 minutes
Template Pack: 40 Low-Drama Phrases for Productive Disagreement15 minutes
Example Pack: 16 Workplace Moments Showing the Four Conflict Styles10 minutes
Exploring conflict styles and the habits that make teams safer35 minutes