Collaboration with Emotional Intelligence
What you'll learn
- Determine why a collaborative approach is beneficial in teamwork
- Recognize why collaboration is underpinned with good emotional intelligence
- Evaluate ways to work with the principles and characteristics of collaboration - what works best, when and where
- Explain the various modes that can be used in collaboration
- Assess your own collaborative style and how this helps or hinders you in collaborative working
- Identify strategies and ideas about how to collaborate more effectively
- Manage work with multi-disciplinary teams at all levels within an organisation
- Explore how to use mindfulness techniques to run collaborative meetings more effectively
- Recognize how to use emotional intelligence to collaborate with others and build emotional bonds
Requirements
- You should have an interest and understanding of emotional intelligence but no prior knowledge and experience is needed to benefit from the course.
- A keenness to identify and understand how to work collaboratively with others towards shared goals.
- An interest in how interactions with other people work and how to build them more effectively.
- You should have a willingness to complete the practical activities to grow and develop your emotional intelligence skills
Description
Collaboration frequently occurs in the workplace where people come together to cooperate and work on a strategic project in order that they can accomplish a common goal. It is simply teamwork taken to a higher level and has become a more productive way of doing things.
Most often collaboration happens within fairly small teams - functional teams, time-limited project teams or cross-functional management teams.
In effective collaboration, all people involved use their emotional intelligence well to balance emotional needs with their thinking, build authentic relationships and make good quality decisions on behalf of the organisation. Whether working with others one-to-one, in small groups or large teams, there is exemplary communication with empathy that engages hearts and minds. This occurs at all levels of the organisation.
This course is about collaborating with others in ways that will help you to communicate more efficiently as you work to understand and work with differences that lead to effective collaboration. In addition, the skills, processes and tools taught in this course can bring value to other aspects of your life.
People often talk about positive and negative emotions. This is not that helpful as emotions cannot really be labelled in that way. The course also covers the myths around positive and negative emotions and why this terminology is not appropriate when working to understand emotions and emotional intelligence in the workplace.
The course covers all aspects of collaborative working focusing on win-win collaboration where everyone benefits. The characteristics, principles and modes of collaboration are examined to give you a much broader insight into getting the best from collaboration.
The course, also, covers trust and how you can build trust as you work together with others.
Behavioural styles are reviewed looking at the strengths and liabilities of each. You get the opportunity to complete a questionnaire that will give you an insight to the behavioural style that you prefer to use with the chance to explore how your style can help and how it can hinder collaboration. Completing this practical activity will enable you to how to use your behavioural preferences and style to better effect when collaborating within a project.
This course is a standalone course for anyone interested in understanding collaboration at work and how to get more from collaborative relationships. It compliments other courses that explore emotional intelligence in more depth.
By completing this course, you will be able to
Determine why a collaborative approach is beneficial in teamwork
Recognize why collaboration is underpinned with good emotional intelligence
Evaluate ways to work with the principles and characteristics of collaboration - what works best, when and where
Explain the various modes that can be used in collaboration
Assess your own collaborative style and how this helps or hinders you in collaborative working
Identify strategies and ideas about how to collaborate more effectively
Manage work with multi-disciplinary teams at all levels within an organisation
Explore how to use mindfulness techniques to run collaborative meetings more effectively
Recognize how to use emotional intelligence to collaborate with others and build emotional bonds
You'll receive all the information that you need and will be coached using loads of practical hints that you can use straight away.
The course is made up of a series of lectures and contains comprehensive course notes. There are a series of interactive exercises that involve some activity with other people and some reflection.
PLEASE NOTE - This course is NOT for you if you are not prepared to work through the practical activities that make up a fundamental part of the course. Collaboration cannot be developed just by watching the video lectures. It requires you to do some reflective thinking, to get some feedback and to discuss your development with others. I'm afraid that you won't get the best from the course unless you are prepared to do this.
There are SEVEN practical activities included within the course that are designed to help you understand collaboration and how you can improve the way in which you work with other people towards shared goals All of them require you to engage with your collaborative team and do some work outside of the course.
The course is being continually refined and updated to ensure it remains current and relevant. Feedback is always welcome.
The course contains a series of Lightbulb Moments resource cards, which have been created to provide you with handy reminders of key points around topics covered within the course.
All PDFs can be completed online and are Section 508 / ADA Accessibility compliant.
All videos are high definition recorded in 1080p.
All videos have grammatically correct English captions.
Latest update - April 2025
Who this course is for:
- This course will support the development of your emotional intelligence. It will be of interest to you if you are looking to develop collaborative relationships, work towards win-win solutions and ways to interact with others effectively.
- This course will help you if you are regularly involved in collaborative teamwork.
- This course will be of interest to you if you are interested in developing your collaborative skills
Instructor
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Hi. I'm Robin Hills. I am an emotional intelligence coach, trainer and facilitator with over 40 years' business and commercial experience. I provide knowledge and skills that help people understand themselves and others better.
I have the most comprehensive range of on-line courses based on emotional intelligence in business - not only on Udemy but anywhere on the internet. I am not teaching any other types of course as I am a specialist in emotional intelligence and it is the focus of my business.
In early 2024, I was presented an Honorary Doctorate in Advanced Studies in Psychology in recognition of my contribution to online Emotional Intelligence training, which started with Udemy back in 2014.
My courses go beyond the fundamental basics of emotional intelligence covering many aspects of how it can be applied in day to day work to lead, grow and develop people in ways that build authentic relationships.
My work takes me into small start-ups through to large corporate multi-nationals and into the Public Sector with financial institutions, government departments and health departments, as well as charities. This provides me a practical understanding of how emotional intelligence works and applied in the real world, enabling me to keep up to date with relevant issues.
I'm a registered practitioner with the British Psychological Society and an active member of the NW committee of the Association for Business Psychology.
My company is Ei4Change (Emotional Intelligence 4 Change) - recognised nationally and internationally as specialists with expertise in training, personal development and coaching focusing on emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience in the workplace. Our emotional intelligence programmes are accredited by the Institute of Leadership.
Over the last few years, I have delivered workshops at global emotional intelligence and neuroscience conferences. These have been held at Harvard University, at University of Manchester, in Cape Town, the Middle East and India.
I am the author of
- The Authority Guide to Emotional Resilience: Strategies to weather storms and manage stress in the workplace (published May 2016)
- The Authority Guide to Behaviour in Business: How to build successful and powerful relationships - 2nd edition (published January 2025)
Both are available on Amazon.
Teaching emotional intelligence skills is a challenge at the best of times so these courses require you to take some ACTION and put into practice what you have learnt. I am here to support and guide you.
The learning process I use on Udemy is designed to work with you and the challenges you are facing today and tomorrow. It is practice-driven, evidence-based and directly helps you to improve your capacity to change.
Many of my Udemy courses offer you the chance to win a valuable prize as you work through the course.
All learners gain access to additional resources to develop emotional intelligence outside of Udemy, including a free book, podcasts and subscription to a digital magazine - ei-matters.
I look forward to empowering your emotional management.