Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey, 1st ed. - Hardcover

Winer, Michael Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630262978 ISBN 13: 9781630262976

Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

Work together...and get greater results! Here's how to overcome obstacles to create a successful collaboration! Whether you're working on homelessness or building a rural farm cooperative, the Collaboration Handbook tells you what to expect and how to meet challenges in a way that strengthens your group and the results you're after. You'll learn how (and why) to:

* Find and attract the right people

* Build trust among diverse groups

* Change conflict into cooperation

* Select the best structure for your collaboration

* Keep people involved, enthusiastic, and motivated

* Energize your supporters with a powerful collaborative vision * Deepen the roots of collaboration for lasting success Practical, interactive tools keep your collaboration on track This unique handbook shows you:

* How to know if collaboration is the best way to

accomplish your goals

* How to get started and keep up the momentum

* Whether your collaboration has the necessary ingredients to succeed

* How to manage the four stages of collaboration * When it makes sense to test the waters with a pilot project Plus, you also get:

* A case study following one collaboration from start to finish

* Sixteen worksheets to help you solve problems, plan successful strategies, and document your progress

* Special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting, and how mandated collaborations can succeed * And much more!

About the Author

For more than 25 years, Michael Winer has been successful at bringing together diverse talents and perspectives to achieve common results through decisive actions. As the founder of 4Results Together, Michael is dedicated to growing individual, organizational and community resources into powerful results - hardy individuals, vital families, productive agencies, profitable businesses and healthy communities. 4Results Together offers training, consulting, coaching, facilitating and motivational speaking on how to grow the resources you have into the results you want.

Michael has worked with community members and leaders have been from all parts of the country and all sectors: arts, business, community development, community services, education, family services, government, health care, hunger reduction, law enforcement, literacy & early education, long-term care, media, philanthropy, religion, rural development and violence reduction.

Karen Ray is president of Karen Ray Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in training and organization development for government, community, and nonprofit agencies. Karen has twenty years of experience with new and existing collaborations. Previously, she was executive director of a literacy-focused agency mandated to collaborate by state and federal funders. As president of Karen Ray Associates, a consulting firm which specializes in training and organization development for government, community, and nonprofit agencies, collaboration is the theme of her work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1630262978
• ISBN 13: 9781630262976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196