Working Collaboratively A Practical Guide to Achieving More [Paperback]

The really big sustainability challenges for your business cant be solved by your business. But they can be solved by your business working in collaboration with others.

Working Collaboratively provides tools to help you understand and manage successful collaborations: identify potential collaborators, e.g. key players from other parts of the system; spot internal ways of working that support or get in the way of collaboration; use a range of techniques to explore win-wins with potential collaborators.

Collaboration means sharing decisions, resources, risks... and control. It means trusting others, sharing your weaknesses as well as your strengths and taking the time to find win-wins (or compromises). It requires a leap of faith, because you never know what will emerge from the chaotic early steps.

Drawing on examples of collaboration between strange bedfellows, this practical guide will help you take the first steps towards building sustainable solutions together.

1. Start at the end  What 2. Who might collaborate with you?3. Co-developing your ways of working  How 4. Finding the common ground  revisiting the What5. Formalising6. What kinds of things get done collaboratively?7. Keeping things going8. Case studies9. Summary of first steps Bibliography Further reading Useful organisations