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.
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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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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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
Skills you'll gain
- Virtual Teams
- Team Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Communication Planning
- Collaboration
- Document Management
- Teamwork
- Team Performance Management
- Project Documentation
- Workplace inclusivity
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Meeting Facilitation
- Team Collaboration
- Discussion Facilitation
- Team Building
- Accountability Frameworks
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Sprint Retrospectives
- Conflict Management
- Diversity and Inclusion
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Assessments
8 assignments
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Career Effectiveness: Balance, Networking & Collaboration Specialization
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