Dialogue Works

Collaborating For Results

Overcome Individual Communication Challenges

Identify and develop the skills it takes to work through tough issues, create shared understanding, improve engagement, and strengthen relationships.
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Collaborating for Results® explores the value of one-on-one and team communication by helping participants develop the skills it takes to work through tough issues in ways that bring shared understanding and commitment and to strengthen relationships at the same time.

Want to give your team a competitive edge? DialogueWORKS® Collaborating for Results® can help improve the quality of your team’s communication and maximize your team's effectiveness. Contact us to learn more about the training, or download the Collaborating for Results Course Description.

Course Overview

Opening effective lines of communication requires listening and developing relationships of trust with others, challenging team members to think productively together, and working cross-functionally to deliver real value to clients and business partners.

This collaborative communication process requires a form of conversation called dialogue. Through dialogue, we achieve REAL conversation results. Effective dialogue expands the capacity for collective thinking and learning and makes it possible to achieve goals with increasing levels of success and satisfaction.

The word dialogue stems from the Greek roots "dia" and "logos" and means "through the meaning of the word." Shared meaning forms the basis of culture in organizations, and dialogue helps us shape and focus that culture toward achieving the results we seek. The cornerstones of dialogue are recognizing and suspending, expressing, asking, and listening and attending. These are the skills that allow us to become aware of the thoughts, feelings, and formulated interpretations that underlie our thinking and ultimately assist us to improve the way we interact and speak with each other.

Collaborating for Results® provides a framework in which people of diverse backgrounds and differing opinions can share their strategically essential perspectives. The training will show you how to:

Course Objectives

  • Contribute instead of control
  • Express our views without creating defensiveness
  • Identify and share undiscussables
  • Provide effective feedback
  • Defuse emotionally explosive situations
  • Identify purpose or intention
  • Prepare for an effective conversation
  • Inquire in ways that build respect
  • Build satisfying solutions
  • Invite opposing views
  • Reestablish positive relationships
  • Listen for new insights
  • Increase capacity and improve productivity
  • Solve problems more effectively

In addition, Collaborating for Results® Training will help you recognize and correct common communication challenges such as jumping to conclusions, spiraling into negative interactions, acting on unsubstantiated conclusions, and defaulting to self-preservation fight or flight behaviors while increasing everyone's awareness of conversation dysfunction.

Learning Process

The learning process mixes theory, practice, and personal awareness, using video, personal exercises, self-assessment, and role play. In short, the training encompasses multiple modes of learning, which allows the concepts and skills to be transferred into practical application.

Who Should Attend?

Leaders at all levels of the organization will benefit. Any individual contributor who is interested in enhancing his or her leadership skills within the realm of given work and responsibility will benefit from the course.

Course Length

Two Days / One Day

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To discover how Collaborating for Results® Training from DialogueWORKS® can help you or your organization contact us today!