Creating a Culture of Collaboration
26mIntermediate2026-06-08
Authors

Lisa Bodell
CEO of futurethink
Course details
Discover why a collaborative work environment can promote success, and learn how to create a cooperative culture in the workplace. Author, CEO and instructor Lisa Bodell outlines the benefits of collaboration, and shares techniques for leaders or individual contributors to start building a team-centric culture. She also defines common barriers to collaboration, and describes methods to overcome those obstacles. Finally, hear about her practical approaches for breaking the ice in any room, and where to find fantastic and unexpected collaborators.
Learning objectives
Explain how collaboration drives high performance.
Identify collaboration role models.
Overcome collaboration barriers.
Leverage the innovator’s approach to collaboration.
Collaborate and share works in progress with others.
Build collaboration into an organization.
Incentivize employees to collaborate.
Identify opportunities for your next collaboration.
Learning objectives
Explain how collaboration drives high performance.
Identify collaboration role models.
Overcome collaboration barriers.
Leverage the innovator’s approach to collaboration.
Collaborate and share works in progress with others.
Build collaboration into an organization.
Incentivize employees to collaborate.
Identify opportunities for your next collaboration.
Skills covered
Teams and CollaborationLeadership SkillsProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Collaboration drives high performance
1. Motivate Teams to Collaborate
- Identify collaboration role models
- Overcome collaboration barriers
- Break the ice
- Ready to yes_if
- Share work in progress
2. Build Collaboration into Your Organization
- Incentivize employees to collaborate
- Commit to collaboration
- Find your next collaboration
Conclusion
- Put collaboration into action