Agreeing on measures of success (deciding how to measure progress) is crucial to moving a cross-sector collaboration’s work forward and to keeping collaborative members on board.
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.
If a collaboration neglects to account for both financial and non-financial resources in its early stages, it exposes itself to higher operating risk and ultimately limits its capacity.
Examining previous efforts of collaboration in a similar issue area can equip partners with valuable information to shape their own collaborative actions.
Share a Vision of Success — the second tool in our Toolkit — entails some of the first collective decision making in a collaboration’s journey, creating a mutual understanding of the benefits of success.
Engage Potential Partners, the first tool in our Toolkit, represents a pivotal moment in the life of a collaboration. We present resources that can help partners through this process.
We updated our Toolkit to include additional resources, discussion questions, and an introduction that more clearly articulates our vision for how it should be used.