Collaboration with Emotional Intelligence

Collaboration frequently occurs in the workplace where people come together to cooperate and work on a strategic project in order that they can accomplish a common goal. It is simply teamwork taken to a higher level and has become a more productive way of doing things. Most often collaboration happens within fairly small teams - functional teams, time-limited project teams or cross-functional management teams.

In effective collaboration, all people involved use their emotional intelligence well to balance emotional needs with their thinking, build authentic relationships and make good quality decisions on behalf of the organisation. Whether working with others one-to-one, in small groups or large teams, there is exemplary communication with empathy that engages hearts and minds. This occurs at all levels of the organisation.

This course is about collaborating with others in ways that will help you to communicate more efficiently as you work to understand and work with differences that lead to effective collaboration. In addition, the skills, processes and tools taught in this course can bring value to other aspects of your life. People often talk about positive and negative emotions.

This is not that helpful as emotions cannot really be labelled in that way. The course also covers the myths around positive and negative emotions and why this terminology is not appropriate when working to understand emotions and emotional intelligence in the workplace. The course covers all aspects of collaborative working focusing on win-win collaboration where everyone benefits.