TEAMWORK: Building Collaborative Skills To Enhance Partnership Outcomes

This will be an interactive workshop designed to give participants practical skills and techniques that will help them build partnerships with others to achieve shared outcomes.

The workshop combines a mixture of experiential learning, dialogue, and investigatory insight to help participants practice effective collaborative models, break down barriers to mutual success, and make more effective use of limited resources. Inherent in the success of cross collaborative teams is also knowing how to take advantage of, rather than resist, the change that might be causing the need for collaboration.

Participants will receive feedback as team members and will use several methods to:

• Learn and be able to demonstrate the 4 primary collaboration building strategies

• Understand their own individual behavioral strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to use their interpersonal influence to develop valid win-win solutions (including how to adapt their own behavior to specific people and situations)

• Understand how to apply 3 team development models to any team development situation in order to achieve desired outcomes

• Learn how to help a team reach consensus (when to use it, when to not use it, what it is, how to reach it)

• Be introduced to The 7 Practical and Personal Steps to Building a Team

TRAINER ML Hannay
Mary Lin (M.L.) Hannay, owner and principal of ML Hannay Associates, is a leadership consultant, group facilitator, motivational speaker, and management and staff development trainer.Her specialties include customer service, team building, management of change/conflict/communication, and humor in the work place. She is known for her high energy, down-to-earth seminars, her practical approach to improving organizational effectiveness, and her intense commitment to her clients. M.L. received her Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Texas and her Masters degree from The University of New Hampshire. She has advanced graduate training in conflict management, negotiations, organizational development, leadership development, and mediation.

Offered under a grant from the Vermont Department of Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs.