Build influence beyond your department

Develop how you lead cross-department collaboration through focused reflection, practical tools, and individual consulting. Begin with a familiar leadership habit, then choose a specific opportunity to develop within your current work.

Collaborate for Health Seven Leadership Habits resource

Start here · Free reflection

7 Leadership Habits That Can Limit Your Influence Beyond Your Department

Recognize habits that can shape how you involve others, share ownership, and contribute to outcomes across departments. Choose the habits you want to examine and take those reflections into the self-assessment.

Explore the Free 7 Leadership Habits

Continue your leadership development

Move from recognizing a habit to understanding your current approach and examining the work behind it. Follow the sequence or begin with the resource that fits where you are.

Reflect

Leading Cross-Department Collaboration

This five-question self-assessment helps you reflect on how you initiate and design collaboration, prepare your team, and connect the work to outcomes. Your ratings provide a general direction for development.

Five-question self-assessment · Free

Understand

Leading Cross-Department Collaboration Insights

Enter your five self-assessment ratings to explore each response and the patterns across them. Recognize strengths and consider more specific opportunities for development.

Interactive reflection tool · $10 individually

Map

Leadership Contribution Map

Examine projects you are leading or contributing to, including who is involved, your role, outcomes, reach, and visibility. Choose one project where you want to develop your leadership more intentionally.

Project mapping and reflection · $20 individually

Insights + Contribution Map Together for $20

Complete Steps 1 and 2 first. You will need your five ratings from Step 2, Leading Cross-Department Collaboration, to use Insights.

Tina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS

Individual consulting

Put your development opportunity into practice.

Work with Tina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS, to apply an evidence-based approach to your initiative. Together, clarify the shared outcome, examine relevant contributions and dependencies, and design how people will work together.

Bring your completed map or a current initiative you would like to examine.

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