Collaboration is not just the act of working together. It goes beyond that. Through collaboration, you can accomplish much more than what you would if you worked alone. Having the skills to communicate with the people you are working with and being able to work as a team towards your goal are just some of the skills you will learn in this course to help you collaborate effectively in the workplace.
In today's day and age, collaborating as a group does not just mean being able to see and communicate with each other in person, collaborations are done virtually all the time. This short course will teach you about some of the obstacles you may face while virtually collaborating with people and how to overcome these barriers with teamwork.
In order to collaborate successfully, you have to be able to recognize and apply different methods of communication. Collaborating involves working with other people, and when working with others you need to be able to understand their behaviors and how to effectively work together as a team in order to reach your goal.
This short course will help you develop the foundational soft skills to enhance the way you collaborate with your team, others in your company, business partners, and clients.
This course is part of the People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success Specialization from IBM.
Status: Teamwork
Teamwork
Status: Cooperation
Cooperation
Beginner·Course·2 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Aug 19, 2025
كانت دورة ممتعة اكتسبت مهارات تجاوز حواجز التعاون وكيف يمكن أن أجعل الاجتماع فعال
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 27, 2025
It was a really informative and useful course for me
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 2, 2023
It was really an informative and instructor had really a good command over it.
4.0
·Reviewed Feb 28, 2024
The course material is very useful and relevant beyond professional or work settings.
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 18, 2024
The course provides valuable insights into effective collaboration, covering key barriers and offers practical examples. Overall, well-structured course to enhance collaborative skills.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 15, 2024
Simplifies. It takes a lot of effort to say less and meaningful.
4.0
·Reviewed May 15, 2024
Given the complexity of the final exam, I believe more content during the instruction is appropriate.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2024
Awesome way to learn about team and peer handling to have a successful outcome and make things happier at work as well as personal life. Thank you
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 20, 2025
Easy to navigate. Clean. Precise. Grateful the quizzes can be retried. My hope is to always be at 100%.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 15, 2023
My knowledge base keeps broadening with every course I enroll to its completion, its a great feeling!
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 26, 2025
This was a good Course! I learned a lot about how to Collaborate Effectively in the workplace. From the different types of Virtual Collaboration and the human relationship issues.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 9, 2022
This course has been extremely beneficial and has provided me with a wealth of information about collaborative work.
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Bri
1.0
·Reviewed Dec 16, 2022
It kept referring to these 'collaborative barriers' but never went into details on each one. What each one was or examples of each. It made it really difficult to follow along and to pass the quiz
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Lorenzo
2.0
·Reviewed Dec 1, 2023
The course is okay, but it doesn't talk much about communication barriers; it mostly talks about how to avoid communication barriers. Whereas, the quiz is entirely based on communication barriers. So, the test becomes very difficult, too specific in my opinion.
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Nathanael
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 19, 2023
Awful "feedback" (incorrect/correct, no explanation provided), dull courses. Vague real-world scenarios that are not readily applicable.
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Susan
3.0
·Reviewed Feb 26, 2024
Course introduced concepts such as collaboration barriers but not examples or explanations of each barrier. The quiz assessment tests on these barriers based on explanations not provided in the course.
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Hana
1.0
·Reviewed Jan 5, 2024
Sorry for low rating, but even the content is valid the form of course is wrong, missing good examples, or even explanation, Content is not comprehensive and coherent. This discourage me to take other courses in this skill set.
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Aung
3.0
·Reviewed Aug 30, 2022
It needs some more in depth materials
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Stephanie
2.0
·Reviewed Nov 14, 2023
Very disappointed that the assessments were focused around something barely touched on in the course itself.
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Anusha
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 15, 2024
Awesome way to learn about team and peer handling to have a successful outcome and make things happier at work as well as personal life. Thank you
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Rick
2.0
·Reviewed Sep 6, 2023
Most of the tests are about collaboration barriers, but the course never explained what they are.
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Guillaume
2.0
·Reviewed Aug 15, 2023
Very basic and it's a robotic voice doing the talking. I was expecting better from IBM
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Umar
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 29, 2022
This course has excellently highlighted the importance of collaboration. The way everything was explained made it very easy for me to digest.
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Puthisa
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 9, 2022
This course has been extremely beneficial and has provided me with a wealth of information about collaborative work.
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ELENI
3.0
·Reviewed Jun 3, 2023
The course offers interesting material on effective collaboration and especially on good collaborative practices.
It does not give sufficient information and examples of not accepted behaviours although the final assessment focuses on these ones and does not cover other topics mentioned in the course like virtual collaboration.
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Karen
2.0
·Reviewed Aug 29, 2024
No me gusto mucho porque la traducción en algunos temas no estaba, se nota el poco esfuerzo, ya que no tenía un instructor que me explique mejor el tema. ¡Falto calidad!
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Jorge
2.0
·Reviewed Jul 18, 2025
Seems like a course made by robots for robots. Most of the topics discussed are just common sense. Uninteresting in my opinion.
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Dominic
2.0
·Reviewed Apr 19, 2024
This course covers collaboration at a very shallow level and doesn't contain detailed case studies or suggestions.
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Jack
1.0
·Reviewed Jul 31, 2024
It focuses on barriers to collaboration instead of how to collaborate successfully. Which is, I suppose, a way of instruction on collaboration . However it never goes into depth on the barriers in the material and then askes in depth questions on the quizzes. It feels like entire sections are missing.
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Ruth
1.0
·Reviewed Dec 6, 2024
Every quiz/test was entirely about Collaborative barriers. Six bulleted barriers were shown in one lesson. They were never defined or discussed, yet every assessment was based 100% on this information. I feel like an entire segment of this curriculum was missing.
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Ebrahim
1.0
·Reviewed Nov 16, 2023
Did not learn anything new. All of the questions were based on a single point (collaborative barriers) that was not even explained during the course. The videos were full of fluff and quotations that did not add anything of value.
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Itamar
1.0
·Reviewed Dec 9, 2024
This course doesn't teach you anything. I'm not sure how you can even call it a course... and I'm pretty sure this is just AI slop with topics like "fourth topic" or "reading: let's hear a story"