Strategy & Decisions
Strategic Collaboration for Leaders
Find shared goals, manage disagreement, and sustain joint ownership when collaborating across teams and organizational boundaries.
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Through relevant workplace examples, this course develops skills in collaboration across organizational boundaries. Participants learn to identify shared goals, manage disagreement, and sustain joint ownership, with a focus on practical follow-through.
What you'll learn
- Explore how strategic collaboration enhances innovation and problem-solving capabilities
- Apply conflict resolution techniques to manage disagreements and promote constructive dialogue
- Develop frameworks for identifying strategic collaboration opportunities within and across teams
- Use course methods to identify shared goals, manage disagreement, and sustain joint ownership in a workplace scenario.
- Develop a cross-functional collaboration plan aligned to a relevant work need.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a workplace need connected to collaboration across organizational boundaries.
- Select an appropriate way to identify shared goals, manage disagreement, and sustain joint ownership.
- Explain the reasoning behind that choice and identify its limitations.
- Produce a cross-functional collaboration plan that addresses a relevant work need.
- Set review points for a cross-functional collaboration plan and identify one adjustment.
Many federal priorities can only be achieved through partnerships across offices, agencies, and sectors. This course helps leaders identify shared goals, manage disagreement, and sustain joint ownership of results. It supports the coalition building topics within OPM's Senior Executive Development Program (SEDP) focus area, Leading Through Complexity.
What you'll learn
- Explain how strategic collaboration advances mission outcomes.
- Identify opportunities for partnership across organizational boundaries.
- Apply techniques for managing disagreement and building consensus.
- Develop frameworks for shared goals and accountability.
- Create a plan to strengthen a key partnership.
What you'll be able to do
- Build productive partnerships across offices and agencies.
- Align partners around shared goals.
- Manage disagreements constructively.
- Sustain shared ownership of results.
- Strengthen relationships that support the mission.