1. Collaboration: the New Political Mandate Laura Peck Claros Group September 11, 2004

2. Learning Together What are your burning questions? What are the tensions, dilemmas, challenges you face as you work more collaboratively? What leadership competencies are called forth? How have you broadened your notion of who needs to be at the table and why? What stories can you share about roaring successes and catastrophic failure?

3. Workshop Overview An overarching framework: Plan, Act, Reflect Network Analysis: who’s in, what’s important to them, how are folks connected? A Tested Planning Tool Learning from Success Building in feedback loops The work of ending

4. Planning ActionReflection Planning The work of an organization is always iterative. Planning sets the context for Action which is then the source of data for Reflection to guide further Planning.

5. Network Analysis 1. Identify Stakeholders : – what concerns are central to them? – what resources can they bring? (political, financial, human) 2. Map their relationships: – to the focal work of the collaboration – to each other 3. Where do you and your organization fit? – What are your concerns? – What resources can you bring? – Who are your allies?

6. Get Clear Before You Get Moving Do the hard and necessary work of formation: Who are we? What’s going on now? What do we want to achieve in the future? What are the principles that will guide our thinking, actions, and decisions? What are the tensions & challenges ? What are the approaches we could take?

7. A Practical Planning Model

8. Learning from Success Describe a time when you were part of a powerful and productive collaboration, a situation that brought out the best in all involved and made a difference in the world. What was going on? What made it so powerful? Who else was involved? Were there some “significant others”? Why were they significant? What was your unique contribution? What conditions supported your and others doing great work?

9. Feedback loops Learning from experience Meeting evaluations Progress updates Process check ins Staying connected to others Between meetings To sponsors To critical stakeholders

10. The Work of Endings Celebration Acknowledgments Reflection Clean up

11. After Action Review

12. AAR: Questions to Ask

13. Claros Group We help leaders and workgroups to get clear, get moving, and stay focused. Laura Peck 969 Kains Ave. Albany, CA 94706 510.524.3150 FAX: 510.524.9307 Lpeck@clarosconsulting.com www.clarosgroup.com