# Leading Through Relationship-Building Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

This course offers a comprehensive exploration of essential skills and strategies for establishing strong relationships, fostering collaboration, and promoting personal and professional growth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of relationship-building approaches, emotional intelligence, conflict management principles, developing others, and strategies for promoting collaboration and team building.

## What you'll learn

- Analyze approaches for relationship-building.
- Apply elements of emotional intelligence.
- Analyze principles of conflict management.
- Analyze approaches for developing others.
- Analyze strategies for promoting collaboration and team building.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Understanding Collaborative Leadership

- Define collaborative leadership and its value in public service
- Identify key traits and mindsets of collaborative leaders
- Explore the differences between hierarchical and collaborative approaches

#### Module 2: Building Relationships and Trust

- Develop relational intelligence and authentic connections
- Foster trust through transparency, empathy, and accountability
- Understand psychological safety as a foundation for collaboration

#### Module 3: Communication and Dialogue

- Enhance listening, inquiry, and dialogue skills
- Use inclusive communication strategies to engage voices
- Navigate conflict constructively to strengthen collaboration

#### Module 4: Facilitating Collaborative Work

- Apply facilitation techniques to co-create solutions
- Use consensus-building and group decision-making tools
- Balance power dynamics to support equitable participation

#### Module 5: Leading Across Boundaries

- Collaborate across departments, sectors, and stakeholder groups
- Recognize challenges of cross-functional and cross-cultural leadership
- Build networks and partnerships for shared impact

#### Module 6: Embedding Collaboration in Leadership Practice

- Integrate collaborative approaches into day-to-day leadership
- Align collaboration with strategic goals and organizational change
- Create a personal plan to lead more collaboratively

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1049