Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey
How to start, run, and maintain an effective collaboration

The Collaboration Handbook is your complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You’ll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you’re after, determine everyone’s roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results. Plus, you’ll find out:

  • How to know if collaboration is the best way to accomplish your goals
  • If your collaboration has the ingredients to succeed
  • How to select the best structure for your collaboration
  • How to manage the four stages of collaboration
  • When it makes sense to test the waters with a pilot project

Because working together can be complex, this valuable guide gives you practical steps, tips, and worksheets to guide you all the way. You’ll find out what to expect and how to:

  • Find and attract the right people
  • Build trust among diverse groups
  • Avoid common pitfalls
  • Turn conflict into cooperation
  • Create accountability standards
  • Keep people involved, enthusiastic, and motivated

This practical handbook includes: a case study following one collaboration from start to finish; sixteen worksheets to help you solve problems, plan successful strategies, and track your progress; and special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting and how mandated collaborations can succeed.

With the Collaboration Handbook, you’ll save valuable time and energy figuring out how to collaborate—and move ahead to creating a collaboration that works!

Also helpful: the research report, Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 3rd Edition, available from Fieldstone Alliance.

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Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey
How to start, run, and maintain an effective collaboration

The Collaboration Handbook is your complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You’ll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you’re after, determine everyone’s roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results. Plus, you’ll find out:

  • How to know if collaboration is the best way to accomplish your goals
  • If your collaboration has the ingredients to succeed
  • How to select the best structure for your collaboration
  • How to manage the four stages of collaboration
  • When it makes sense to test the waters with a pilot project

Because working together can be complex, this valuable guide gives you practical steps, tips, and worksheets to guide you all the way. You’ll find out what to expect and how to:

  • Find and attract the right people
  • Build trust among diverse groups
  • Avoid common pitfalls
  • Turn conflict into cooperation
  • Create accountability standards
  • Keep people involved, enthusiastic, and motivated

This practical handbook includes: a case study following one collaboration from start to finish; sixteen worksheets to help you solve problems, plan successful strategies, and track your progress; and special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting and how mandated collaborations can succeed.

With the Collaboration Handbook, you’ll save valuable time and energy figuring out how to collaborate—and move ahead to creating a collaboration that works!

Also helpful: the research report, Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 3rd Edition, available from Fieldstone Alliance.

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Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

by Michael Barry Winer
Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

by Michael Barry Winer

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How to start, run, and maintain an effective collaboration

The Collaboration Handbook is your complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You’ll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you’re after, determine everyone’s roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results. Plus, you’ll find out:

  • How to know if collaboration is the best way to accomplish your goals
  • If your collaboration has the ingredients to succeed
  • How to select the best structure for your collaboration
  • How to manage the four stages of collaboration
  • When it makes sense to test the waters with a pilot project

Because working together can be complex, this valuable guide gives you practical steps, tips, and worksheets to guide you all the way. You’ll find out what to expect and how to:

  • Find and attract the right people
  • Build trust among diverse groups
  • Avoid common pitfalls
  • Turn conflict into cooperation
  • Create accountability standards
  • Keep people involved, enthusiastic, and motivated

This practical handbook includes: a case study following one collaboration from start to finish; sixteen worksheets to help you solve problems, plan successful strategies, and track your progress; and special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting and how mandated collaborations can succeed.

With the Collaboration Handbook, you’ll save valuable time and energy figuring out how to collaborate—and move ahead to creating a collaboration that works!

Also helpful: the research report, Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 3rd Edition, available from Fieldstone Alliance.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780940069039
Publisher: TURNER PUB CO
Publication date: 04/15/1994
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Winer is the founder of Synoptics: Seeing the Whole Together, which is dedicated to unifying individual and organizational actions that mobilize communitywide efforts and resources to meet the needs of our society. He has worked closely with community members and leaders from all walks of life. He taught for four years in Japan and has a masters degree in applied behavioral sciences.

Karen Ray is President of Karen Ray Associates, which specializes in staff training and organizational development. With a masters degree in applied behavioral sciences, her work focuses on collaboration, team building, and leadership. She also teaches team building and communications courses at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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