“The Good Collaboration Toolkit is a set of materials aimed to help individuals collaborate well and build successful collaborations. Through a series of activities, participants will be asked to consider questions, dilemmas, and cases involved with all aspects of the collaboration, most especially the process
of collaboration. Rather than contribute yet another article explaining theories and suggested steps to
‘good’ collaboration, this Toolkit provides participants with an opportunity to work through exercises, as persons and in groups, which can be useful to the collaborative process. …

This Toolkit serves as an approach to help individuals conceptualize and pursue productive collaborations. The four major objectives of this Toolkit are to help individuals:

1. identify and evaluate individual motivations, goals and values for collaboration;
2. engage in discussion with potential collaborators about whether and how to initiate a productive collaboration;
3. talk candidly and productively with current collaborators when confronted with obstacles and roadblocks; and
4. debrief after a collaboration, with unguarded discussions about positive and negative outcomes. …

Anyone interested in developing and sustaining ‘good collaboration’ is an appropriate user of these materials. The materials are meant to be flexible so that the topics and approaches will resonate with professionals representing different domains.”