Cross-Functional Collaboration: Escalating Without Blame

  • Author: Christian Masotti and Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 60 to 75 minutes
Build Civility micro course
Course overview
Raise issues between departments without blame, fix the missing handoff, and repair working relationships afterwards.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Explain how blame-loaded escalation between departments leads to recurring problems.

A tool you can use this week

The Cross-Functional Escalation Protocol (Bayer and Masotti): a 15-minute, four-step conversation (name the issue, name the coordination gap, identify the standard, commit and close) followed by an after-action debrief. The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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