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Facilitating Collaboration

Program Overview

Effective leadership hinges on the ability to foster collaboration. This three-day course equips professionals with techniques to design inclusive gatherings, promote self-organization, navigate challenging conversations, and enhance transparency, empowering teams to innovate and achieve their goals.

Details

Baltimore, MD
3 Days
Leadership

Investment

$3,950^*

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Upcoming Courses

In person: November 9-11, 2026 (9am-4pm)

Facilitating Collaboration

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Program Details

Learn transformative and straightforward techniques that enhance impact and increase engagement among your peers and within your team. By utilizing the principles of liberating structures, this course empowers you to harness the innovative power of your entire team, developing skills to facilitate dialogues that bring together diverse stakeholders and lead to actionable consensus, while also learning to handle challenging conversations that promote trust.

Facilitating Collaboration can be taken as a standalone course or as a prerequisite for the Executive Certificate in Organizational Leadership.

Course outcomes:

Strategies to increase the diversity of gatherings
Understand how self-organization can outperform traditional methods by reducing excessive control
Facilitate dialogue that unites diverse people and leads to a common action agenda
Navigate challenging conversations that dismantle silos and foster trust and alignment
Strategies to enhance transparency between business units
Approaches to redistribute power and amplify voices in meetings

This course was built for:

Those interested in designing impactful learning experiences.
Creatives and agile practitioners wishing to guide team discussions and resolve conflicts.
Program and project managers eager to encourage collaboration across teams and projects.