Collaboration: Cultivating the Art of Working Together

When nonprofits collaborate to share best practices and ideas, they leverage limited resources for maximum impact.  Collaboration has the potential to improve efficiency, sustainability and outcomes. 

Working together with other people or organizations has benefits and challenges.  It requires that organizations be willing to change.  Organizations that respond with agility and creativity are more resilient.

What gives organizations strength and agility?  Credible leaders engaging the full organization.  The ability to respond as a cohesive whole enables the organization to overcome obstacles and continue moving forward.  This powerful collaborative response requires four cornerstone practices:
- Dialogue
- Bridging Differences
- Sound Decision Making
- Wise Planning

You will receive a portable toolkit that includes:

• a comprehensive organizational assessment tool to identify areas of strength and weakness regarding the ability to change
• a checklist of the elements of the resilience framework
• a decision making road map for collaborative decisions

These tools will assist in orienting and engaging your leadership team to build and expand resiliency and the ability to collaborate.

Learning Objectives

• Gain skills in dialogue, negotiation, decision making and planning
• Practice the five-step decision-making process
• Understand the key elements that lead to a resilient organization and effective collaboration

There will be two short follow-up sessions to assist with using the tools and integrating these practices into your organization.

Level

Intermediate

Audience

This training is designed specifically with groups in mind. Bring a learning partner to more effectively bring back the learning into your organization.  Bring your leadership team: Executive Director, Managers and Board Members who desire to build their organization’s resiliency and ability to collaborate.  Register for two or more and receive a group discount.

Presenter

Mark D. Bennett, Decision Resources, regularly works with organizations as a consultant, leadership coach, trainer, facilitator, and mediator. His subject matter expertise includes values-based decision-making and building organization cultures of collaboration through dialogue, principled negotiation, and wise planning. He is the coauthor of A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action.