In collaborative environments characterized by shared decision making, developing a fact base that defines “the problem” is an often overlooked but crucial step among partners.
Creating an environment where partners can communicate openly allows collaborations to address partners’ differing priorities and viewpoints.
By creating channels to hear and respond to partners’ differing perspectives and concerns, a collaboration can establish a forum for consensus-building.
This collaboration illustrates how to create an environment in which partners can communicate openly and address partners’ differing priorities.
How the Head, Heart, and Hands framework can guide conversations on how to dismantle structural racism and develop practices to ensure that all citizens have equal access to opportunities and services.
"Public- and private-sector leaders came together to look at problems from all angles. They focused the community on finding solutions."
“Trust facilitates, solidifies and increases the performance” of collaborative efforts, observe the authors of new research on trust in cross-sector collaborations.
At the foundation of each of Coro’s leadership programs is a drive for cross-cultural and cross-sectoral understanding.
For many of our leaders, communicating goals with financial supporters or external partners and providing progress reports allowed them to build trust and continue a project that may have otherwise stalled.