Practical Skills For Effective Partnering For Collaboration

How to skilfully lead conversations with your most valued business relationships

What you’ll learn
Understanding of what is partnering for collaboration about and why partnering for collaboration is connecting for collaboration
Knowledge of some helpful definitions and what other skills are important to consider to achieve excellent partnering for collaboration
Insights into what makes the difference between effective and ineffective interactions
Knowledge of a simple framework that can serve as a map for the engagement playfield and navigate your way to connection and conversations for opportunity
Insight into how to lead conversations and balance promoting your views, understanding the other and create value with your most valued business relationships
Extra: a simple method to help you in transferring your new skills into a habit

Requirements
A growth mindset, a commitment to practicing new skills in working together effectively with people.
It is helpful if you have done some (initial) reflecting on who your stakeholders are that you want to partner with and what you would like your partnership to look like
This is for people who aspire to build equal and mutually supportive partnerships
Also for people who want to look at ‘sales’ as working together to create win-win outcomes

Description
In this online course, Mieke Kroes – an experienced business consultant and senior change management specialist – shares the simple and practical Partnering for Collaboration framework that is developed for professionals looking to create mutually supportive relationships and build partnerships for collaboration and delivering shared value.Everyone looking to build strong business relationships and create value together will benefit from a simple and practical framework that takes some of the guessing of why certain interactions go really well and leave participants feeling energised, whilst other interactions are clunky and leave all involved feeling deflated, dissatisfied or even incapable.This course is all about bringing structure to your understanding of what makes the difference between effective and ineffective conversations. You will grow your agency in having conversations that leave all participants feeling inspired, connected and positive.So, are you an (aspiring) business partner looking to create a strong network in your organisation, a consultant looking to improve your engagement skills, are you in a sales role seeking to genuinely help and support your clients by offering fit for purpose solutions, or are there other reasons to develop your collaboration skills; you are sure to get value from the simple and practical Partnering for Collaboration framework that will be addressed in this online course!You will walk away with knowledge and understanding of a practical communications framework that will grow your mastery and confidence in making connections with your business stakeholders and have conversations for opportunity that leave you clear about what the needs of your stakeholders are, what value you can offer and how you can bring the two together.Extra content: How to give and receive feedback + a template for making what you learned second nature.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction & overview

Lecture 1 Introduction – about your presenter Mieke Kroes

Lecture 2 Course objectives and course overview

Lecture 3 Tips on how to make the most of this course

Section 2: What is partnering for collaboration

Lecture 4 Partnering for Collaboration – a Key Professional Skill

Lecture 5 What is Partnering for Collaboration – Some Helpful Definitions

Lecture 6 What constitutes a Partnership for Collaboration – What (else) to Consider

Lecture 7 Effective versus Ineffective Interactions – What makes the difference?

Section 3: Framework for effective engagement through conversation

Lecture 8 The Partnering for Collaboration Framework: a Template for Communication

Lecture 9 Exploring the Partnering for Collaboration framework | Create your own scripts

Section 4: Leading conversations using the framework

Lecture 10 Prepare and do the Roleplay

Lecture 11 Extra Video – Giving and Receiving Feedback

Section 5: Bringing it all together | effectively navigating the sea of opportunity

Lecture 12 Course Wrap up and Summary

Lecture 13 Extra video: transferring course insights to your every day life

Whether you are a natural at building rapport and connecting with people in a business setting or find it a bit of a struggle; any professional can benefit from insights that take out some of the guessing of why certain business conversations fail and others flow and leave you feeling accomplished, inspired and energised.