Virtual Collaboration

Catalog description

Collaboration is an essential ingredient for human growth, learning, and success. Today, there are endless possibilities for collaboration across the globe with colleagues. Course participants will explore the relationship between the technologies, tools, and the human factors associated with the cultural/social frameworks necessary for effective collaboration. Course topics include navigating, learning, collaborating, and leading in today's complex, socially and technologically interconnected world. Complexity and interdependence are key concepts for virtual teams, virtual leaders, and virtual organizations. Guests from multiple organization will share their own experiences and best practices that made their virtual teams and operations successful. The course foundations are built upon cultural and social sciences that explain how organizations and social order are constructed, sustained and changed. This is a highly practical course, where everything studied can be observed, tested, applied, and interpreted for results.