Workplace Culture: Collaborating Across Departments Training Course

Have you ever worked on a nightmare project? These are often broad, complicated endeavors, involving several departments and with many moving parts. There’s a lot to coordinate. And for the project to succeed, every department needs to function as a cog in a well-oiled machine. Collaboration is essential.

Without effective collaboration, things can devolve into a chaotic mess. Maybe there are too many cooks in the kitchen, causing every department to go in a different direction. Or perhaps departments are confined in their own silos, such that one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing. You can easily end up with confusion or conflict between departments and among employees. And when things get out of control, everyone is stressed.

Do you know what to do when a project is in disarray? Aside from pointing to leadership, would you know how to get everyone on the same page and working together?

If you’re at a loss, never fear. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has studied what works and has developed best practices, published in GAO-23-105520, GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Leading Practices to Enhance Interagency Collaboration and Address Crosscutting Challenges . After all, governments often have to address issues and solve problems that span many agencies.

This course will show you how to collaborate across departments. You’ll explore some of the obstacles to working well together and learn some basic best practices that can help your department collaborate with others, making your life a lot less stressful the next time you have a big, brawling project to work on.

This program is available with Spanish and French closed captions.