Course Overview
Busting Silos is a collaboration training program designed for anyone who needs to create better outcomes by getting individuals and teams to collaborate with each other.
It gives participants the skills to break down barriers and build better working relationships—both with other teams within your organisation and with external stakeholders.
Busting Silos is about:
- becoming more strategic, resilient, and effective in collaboration and communicating with others
- reducing rework and delays caused by poor relationships and misunderstandings
- reducing conflict
- working together with business partners to create collaborative outcomes.
- increasing satisfaction at work, particularly in roles with significant cross-functional dependencies
- improving change resilience and psychological safety
- bridging organisational divides
- improving your team’s reputation in the organisation
Busting Silos has been designed to develop leaders at any level.
Inclusions
- Workplace experiments related to each lesson
- Curated reading
- Assessment through multi choice exam questions
- A digital badge to demonstrate your market relevance on LinkedIn
Learning Objectives
- Understand the interpersonal and organisational communication skills and tools to enable you to work more effectively with your stakeholders.
- Reduce rework by getting the right people involved and onside right from the beginning!
- Learn how to identify and manage key stakeholders.
- Learn the interpersonal and technical skills that will enable you to create smoother change efforts through better collaboration.
Assessment
10 multiple choice questions, you need 80% to pass, multiple attempts permitted.
Time to complete
Allow 30 – 60 minutes per lesson to read, and apply to an experiment
Pricing
$149 AUD
Note: For Australian residents this is GST inclusive, and you are provided a ATO compliant tax receipt. For outside of Australia, Teachable calculates country or state tax as relevant at checkout.
Notes
Contact us for enterprise pricing models and volume discounts.
Testimonials
Collaborative is one of our core values at SimCorp, and I started 2023 with an intent to deepen my collaboration skills – recognising how fundamental these are to my change enablement role and to my facilitation of our cross-SimCorp People Change Community.
Today I completed an extended e-learning course on Busting Silos – curated and taught by Dr Jen Frahm and Melissa Dark, who share deep expertise on theory and practices of collaboration, communication and change. There was so much rich content (both familiar and unfamiliar) – but my 3 most significant takeaways were:
1) For collaboration to be meaningful it needs to be a purposeful choice – not a default response. Adam Kahane’e decision-tree on the relevance/role of collaboration in different circumstances was a lightbulb moment for me.
2) Collaboration that actually ‘busts silos’ is effectively counter-cultural in traditionally hierarchical organisations – potentially a ‘rebellious’ activity – so it should always be visibly guided by intent for positive change. I hadn’t seen myself as a ‘rebel at work’ before!
3) Collaborating across silos requires consciously opening yourself up to the discomfort of productive conflict – as you navigate different agendas, priorities and ways of working. This requires skills far beyond those we use in everyday, comfortable collaboration – e.g. the ‘tactical empathy’ recommended by Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I register my whole team to take this course?
You certainly can. If you have a small team, you can register them one at a time on the website. For larger teams, contact us directly and we’ll help to organise a group registration.
How long does it take to complete this collaboration course?
Each weekly lesson takes around 10-20 minutes to read, but it may take more time if you decide to follow links to further explore particular topics. We recommend setting aside 30 minutes every week to read your lesson, think through its applicability to your situation, and complete any further reading.
We also recommend that you read each lesson within the week that it’s sent to give you enough time to process and use the information before the next lesson.