Written by: Matthew Hile 7/3/2008 1:19 PM
From the Children's Bureau's Regional Partnership Grant meeting in DC Nancy Young presented about collaboratives, Failure by Fragmentation. Suggested that two approaches to partnership could be described as: Shared outcomes = responsibilities + results in a genuine partnership of accountability (data driven, results based). or Partnerships rest on trust and trust grow out of relationships build over time (relationships and personalities are important and that you need to make it work with people). Basically neither works alone: there is a need to balance process and content. She went on to describe the four stages of collaboration (Sid Gardner, Beyond Collaboration to Results, 1996 ) Information exchange (getting to know you) Joint projects (shared grants), Changing the rules (redirection of funds), Changing the system (results-based funding) It is interesting to think about how these stages fit with "stages of group" development. That is forming, storming, norming, and performing. Information exchange seems to easily fit with the forming stage. Joint projects would potentially push storming as groups fight for turf, try to cope with different views of the problem, and work to deal effectively with each other. Just as with groups, only if the collaborative can get through the storming stage will it be able to move into the third and forth stage of collaboration. Indeed, one of the comments made by Nancy is that if you have not fought in the group then you are really not collaborating.
From the Children's Bureau's Regional Partnership Grant meeting in DC Nancy Young presented about collaboratives, Failure by Fragmentation.
Suggested that two approaches to partnership could be described as:
Shared outcomes = responsibilities + results in a genuine partnership of accountability (data driven, results based). or Partnerships rest on trust and trust grow out of relationships build over time (relationships and personalities are important and that you need to make it work with people).
Shared outcomes = responsibilities + results in a genuine partnership of accountability (data driven, results based).
or
Partnerships rest on trust and trust grow out of relationships build over time (relationships and personalities are important and that you need to make it work with people).
Basically neither works alone: there is a need to balance process and content.
She went on to describe the four stages of collaboration (Sid Gardner, Beyond Collaboration to Results, 1996 )
It is interesting to think about how these stages fit with "stages of group" development. That is forming, storming, norming, and performing. Information exchange seems to easily fit with the forming stage. Joint projects would potentially push storming as groups fight for turf, try to cope with different views of the problem, and work to deal effectively with each other. Just as with groups, only if the collaborative can get through the storming stage will it be able to move into the third and forth stage of collaboration. Indeed, one of the comments made by Nancy is that if you have not fought in the group then you are really not collaborating.
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