Lateral Management & Vertical Leadership

Challenges and trends

Matrix and project organisations, networks and cross-functional teams serve to bundle resources, create innovations, simplify and accelerate performance and decision-making processes in an agile, turbulent environment.

Employees and managers assume new roles: they integrate different perspectives, roles and people.

In order to fulfill this role, they need to understand which organizational, mental and social barriers can occur during collaboration between different units/divisions.

To get the collaboration up and running, employees and managers need to be clear about the contact points and tools that bring collaboration benefits into play and prevent a paralysis of collaboration projects.

What will be covered during the seminar?

  • Understanding the dynamics of collaboration with independent partners
  • Collaborative leadership through the development of collaboration strategies, common solutions, collaborative organisational structures and a collaborative culture
  • Development of collaborative roles and work relationships
  • Development of courses of actions as a cross-functional team leader or team member in „tricky“ interpersonal situations and role dilemmas
  • Effective collaboration management when interacting with other divisions on the same level and in the context of a vertical hierarchy.

The topics are based on case studies, your own examples, inputs and practical exercises.

What will you learn?

  • You will understand which collaboration dynamics can be disruptive and learn how to influence them.
  • You will be aware of the role requirements of the collaboration manager and the members of internal collaborations.
  • You will be able to bring together the relevant stakeholders in a collaboration room, establish synergies, achieve collaboration benefits and meet collaboration targets.

Location: Inhouse in your organisation or as an open seminar

Duration: 2 days, please enquire

Costs of a two-day open-seminar:

EUR 860 plus MwSt (19% German VAT). Seminar lump sum which includes participation, training materials and catering.

Costs inhouse seminar: please enquire