The Improvement Collaborative is a major approach for rapidly improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare. A collaborative focuses on a single technical area (for example, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV) and seeks to rapidly spread existing knowledge or best practices related to that technical topic to multiple settings, through systematic improvement efforts of a large number of teams. A collaborative is a time-limited improvement strategy, usually lasting from 12 to 24 months. This training is designed to be used in workshop format to orient, sensitize, and otherwise guide a management team in the planning, development, and implementation of their own collaborative. Because the basis of an Improvement Collaborative is the Quality Improvement (QI) process, one must have skills in conducting QI in order to implement a collaborative.