Creating a Culture of Collaboration The International Association of Facilitators Handbook

by Schuman, Sandy

• ISBN13: 9780787981167
• ISBN10: 0787981168
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-25
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Collaboration is often viewed as a one-time or project-oriented activity. An increasing challenge is to help organizations incorporate collaborative values and practices in their everyday ways of working. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, an international group of practitioners and researchers-from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States-provide proven approaches to creating a culture of collaboration within and among groups, organizations, communities, and societies.

Author Biography

Sandy Schuman is a group facilitator, collaborative process advocate, and storyteller. He helps groups create shared meaning, make critical choices, and build collaborative relationships. He is the editor of The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation (from Jossey-Bass) and Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal and moderates Grp-Facl, the Electronic Discussion on Group Facilitation. Schuman is an associate of the Center for Policy Research, University at Albany, SUNY. His consulting firm is Executive Decision Services. Contact him at www.exeds.com.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. Five Transformational Leaders Discuss What They’ve Learned (Sam Kaner).

PART ONE: THE BASES OF COLLABORATION.

2. Renewing Social Capital: The Role of Civil Dialogue (James M. Campbell).

3. The Development of Cross-Sector Collaborations in a Social Context of Low Trust (Mladen Koljatic, M¢nica Silva, and Eduardo Valenzuela).

4. Exploring the Dynamics of Collaboration in Interorganizational Settings (Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano).

5. Equity, Diversity, and Interdependence: A New Driver for Societal Transformation (Michael Murray and Brendan Murtagh).

6. What Keeps It Together: Collaborative Tensility in Interorganizational Learning (Hilary Bradbury, Darren Good, and Linda Robson).

7. Make-or-Break Roles in Collaboration Leadership (Mirja P. Hanson).

PART TWO: APPROACHES TO COLLABORATION.

8. Sense Making and the Problems of Learning from Experience: Barriers and Requirements for Creating Cultures of Collaboration (Gervase R. Bushe).

9. Metaphors at Work: Building Multiagency Collaboration Through a Five-Stage Process (Carol Sherriff, and Simon Wilson).

10. Utilizing Uncertainty (Kim Sander Wright).

11. Sustainable Cooperative Processes in Organizations (Dale Hunter).

12. Is Your Organization an Obstacle Course or a Relay Team? A Meaning-Centered Approach to Creating a Collaborative Culture (Paul T. P. Wong).

13. Practical Dialogue: Emergent Approaches for Effective Collaboration (Rosa Zubizarreta).

14. Using the Facilitative Leader Approach to Create an Organizational Culture of Collaboration (Roger Schwarz).

15. Use of Self in Creating a Culture of Collaboration (Ante Glavas, Claudy Jules, and Ellen Van Oosten).

PART THREE: COLLABORATION IN ACTION.

16. Collaboration for Social Change: A Theory and a Case Study (Cynthia Silva Parker, Linda N. Guinee, J. Courtney Bourns, Jennifer Fischer-Mueller, Marianne Hughes, and Andria Winther).

17. Theory in Action: Building Collaboration in a County Public Agency (Jamie O. Harris, and David Straus).

18. Leadership for the Common Good (John M. Bryson, and Barbara C. Crosby).

19. Using Deliberative Democracy to Facilitate a Local Culture of Collaboration: The Penn’s Landing Project (William J. Ball).

20. Avoiding Ghettos of Like-Minded People: Random Selection and Organizational Collaboration (Lyn Carson).

21. Involving Multiple Stakeholders in Large-Scale Collaborative Projects (Tasos Sioukas, and Marilyn Sweet).

Key Concepts.

Index.