Effective Collaborative Research Skills
In a climate where excellence in research is promoted, effective collaboration has become essential in order to achieve world class research outcomes. Individuals, teams and organisations need well developed collaboration skills to successfully leverage their resources and expertise to achieve excellence in a highly competitive global research environment.
Course Objectives
This one day workshop will give you the skills to:
- Assess the benefits, costs and risks of collaboration
- Know why and when collaboration is needed
- Understand which collaboration approaches work best with different types of stakeholders
- Use the 3 principles of successful research collaboration to improve the efficiency of collaborative decision making
- Diagnose whether your potential collaborative partner meets the requirements of the 5 commitments of strong collaborative research partnerships
- Move from transactional single issue negotiations to collaborative relationship building approaches that have mutual benefits
- Neutralise the hard-ball tactics that have the potential to destroy collaborative research
partnerships - Identify strategies that will enhance the collaborative maturity of your organisation
Who should attend
This course is for anyone who undertakes research. This includes researchers, research project
managers, research project administrators, new business and commercialisation managers working for publicly or privately funded CRC’s, CCRE’s, research institutes, universities, hospitals, new technology start-ups and spin-out companies, biotech companies and technology incubators.
Course Presenter
Pat Foley is an Associate Professor with Melbourne Consulting & Custom Programse at the University of Melbourne. He has been a consultant to many of Australia’s leading organisations. He was the principal consultant for the Australian Human Resource Benchmarking Program. He has constructed benchmarking systems, in both the HR function and non- HR areas; such as customer service, employee engagement, organisational learning processes, competitive benchmarking and has also led International benchmarking projects. Pat has conducted numerous executive team development workshops, senior management strategy reviews and helped organisations construct strategy maps and performance measurement systems.
Course Fee
2008 fees: $595 + GST per person
Course Structure
One-day intensive course, usually taught from 9am-5pm.
Delivery Dates
Wednesday, 4th June 2008
Course Brochure
This is currently being updated and will be available shortly.
Application Process
To apply for this course, please contact Elise Strande on (03) 9810 3136 or email e.strande@mccp.unimelb.edu.au