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Collaboration: What Works and Why
The document discusses the importance and principles of collaboration among organizations and individuals, emphasizing the need for collective action to achieve social change and address communal challenges. It outlines successful strategies for collaboration, including engagement, shared goals, and leveraging community resources, while also identifying factors that enhance a coalition's ability to create impactful solutions. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of knowledge networks in fostering collaboration and achieving objectives through shared insights and resources.
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Collaboration: What Works and Why
- 1. Collaboration: What Works and Why Sam Frank, Sophie Parker, Deborah Pruitt, Kate Pugh, Tom Wolff February 6, 2013 A Service Of: Sponsored by:
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- 4. Today’s Panel Sophie Parker Deborah Pruitt Katrina Pugh Tom Wolff Sophie Parker & Associates Group Alchemy Consulting Align Consulting Tom Wolff & Associates Assisting with chat questions: Sam Frank – Host & Moderator Jamie Maloney, Nonprofit Webinars Synthesis Partnership A Service Of: Sponsored by:
- 5. Collaboration: What Works& Why Sam Frank Sophie Parker Deborah Pruitt Katrina Pugh Tom Wolff Synthesis Partnership Sophie Parker & Associates Group Alchemy Consulting Align Consulting Tom Wolff & Associates synthesispartnership.com sophieparker.com groupalchemy.net/ alignconsultinginc.com tomwolff.com sbf@synthesispartnership.com sophie@sophieparker.com info@groupalchemy.net katepugh@alum.mit.edu tom@tomwolff.com Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 6. Collaborative Solutions Tom Wolff Tom Wolff & Associates tomwolff.com tom@tomwolff.com Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 7. What are collaborativesolutions? • Doing together that which we cannot do alone • A collaboration is a group of individuals and/or organizations with a common interest who agree to work together toward a common goal. from S.Fawcett et.al Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 8. Why encourage collaborativesolutions? • To create social change • To encourage social innovation • Expand interventions to the whole community • To do more with less when there are budget cuts • To address limitations of the health and human service systems • To promote civic engagement • To build healthy communities Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 9. Six principles forsuccessful coalitions 1. Engage a broad spectrum of the community 2. Encourage true collaboration as the form of exchange 3. Practice democracy 4. Employ an ecological approach that emphasizes individual in his/her setting. 5. Take action 6. Engage your spirituality as your compass for social change from Tom Wolff, The Power of Collaborative Solutions (2010) Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 10. The Continuum ofCollaboration Networking Exchanging information for mutual benefit. Coordination Exchanging information and modifying activities for mutual benefit. Cooperation Exchanging information, modifying activities, and sharing resources for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose. Collaboration Exchanging information, modifying activities, sharing resources, and enhancing the capacity of another for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose by sharing risks, resources, responsibilities, and rewards. from Arthur Himmelman Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 11. Factors Affecting a Coalition’sCapacity to Create Change • Having a clear vision and mission • Action planning for community and systems change • Developing and supporting leadership • Documentation and ongoing feedback on programs • Technical assistance and support • Securing financial resources for the work • Making outcomes matter • Name and manage conflict from Roussus and Fawcett and Rosenthal Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 12. Collaborative Solutions New$from$Jossey$Bass/John$Wiley$ (available$at$www.tomwolff.com)$ Web Resources Coalition Coaching Tom Wolff & Associates www.tomwolff.com Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice www.gjcpp.org Community Tool Box http://ctb.ku.edu Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 13. Knowledge Networks forImpact Katrina Pugh Align Consulting alignconsultinginc.com katepugh@alum.mit.edu Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 14. Networks Matter • “Networks,formal and informal, local and global, are increasingly important channels for pursuing policy goals in a globalizing world.” • No one organization can have enough requisite knowledge in the 21st century. Jan Wouters, Director Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies in foreword to the provocative United Nations publication Networks for Prosperity (2011 ) Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 15. What is aKnowledge Network? (also called a Community of Practice) A Knowledge Network is a gathering of individuals motivated by the desire to cross organizational boundaries, to relate to one another, and to build a body of actionable knowledge through coordination and collaboration. Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 16. How do networkmembers (not) behave? Lacking Collaboration (“self-sacrifice”) 53% Exhibit trust 53% Cohesiveness/identity 50% Using a working platform 44% Expand connectivity (“networked” beyond) 38% Act within commonly agreed goals & objectives 28% Percentage of nonprofit leaders attending Nonprofit Webinar 11/30/11 http://nonprofitwebinars.com/webinars/11302011-beyond-partnerships-tapping-into-the-agility-of-knowledge- networks-and-communities/ Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 17. KN Effectiveness Framework Design Drivers Behavior Impacts( Let’s unpack this! What levers What What tone and What are the do we pull? dynamics behaviors do we impacts? come into see? play? Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 18. We can learnfrom the best! 8 Design Dimensions Strategic 1. Leaders’ shared theory of change 2. Objectives/Outcomes/Purpose 3. Role of “expertise” & experimental learning (Expert/Learner balance) 5. Inclusion/Participation Structural 4. Operating model 6. Convening structures and infrastructures 7. Facilitation and social norm development Tactical 8. Measurement, feedback and incentives Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 19. Knowledge Networks forImpact Facilitating Tacit Knowledge Conversations: Sharing Hidden Know-How (Jossey-Bass, April 2011) “Knowledge Jam: Three Disciplines to Beat the Merger Performance Odds,” Ivey Business Journal, July/August, 2011. Conversation Channels insight Into Action NonprofitWebinars, Sept, 2011) Networks: Beyond Partnerships: Tapping into the Agility of Knowledge Networks and Communities, NonprofitWebinars, 11/30/2011 Recognizing and cultivating trust: The primary driver of network impact, NonprofitWebinars, 3/28/2012 Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 20. Connecting Sophie Parker Sophie Parker & Associates sophieparker.com sophie@sophieparker.com Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 21. Interacting “If you wanta future that’s distinct from the past, you have to be with people who you aren’t used to being with and have conversations that you’re not used to having.” Peter Block Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 22. Connection before Content Connectionoccurs when we speak of what matters. We make connections through: • Questions • Listening & not giving advice • Breaking bread Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 23. Secrets of Collaboration Deborah Pruitt Group Alchemy Consulting groupalchemy.net/ info@groupalchemy.net Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 24. Successful Groups vs.Struggling Groups Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 25. How to prevent… • Frustration, pettiness and tension. • Disengagement. • Lack of group energy and creativity. Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 26. Learn how to… • set a foundation for high-level collaboration in any work relationship or group - quickly and reliably. • prevent typical breakdowns that drag the group down and break trust. • have more impact in every relationship. • make a critical mindset shift. Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 27. Mindset Shift Prioritize building the culture in your group with attention and intention. Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 28. Collaboration: What Works& Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 29. Building Clarity, Trust& Accountability with Agreements • Acting in accordance • Creating order and predictability Explicit Agreements Staff meetings are Wednesdays at 9am$ Implicit (Hidden) Agreements What time is 9 am? Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 30. Collaboration: What Works& Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 31. Group Alchemy: The SixElements of Highly Successful Collaboration Creating the gold in any group or partnership is not a mystery… it’s a formula. www.groupalchemy.net Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
- 32. Barriers: What areyour biggest concerns? • Turf and Competition • Bad history • Failure to Act • Lack of a Common Vision • Failure to provide and create collaborative leadership • Minimal organizational structure • Costs outweigh the benefits • Not engaging self-interest • Overcoalitioned community from Wolff & Kaye From the Ground Up Collaboration: What Works & Why Wednesday Webinar: February 6, 2013
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