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2. Coordinating Shared Leadership

These resources, tools and examples can be used to help create a positive environment and structure for the collaboration to advance common purpose and productivity by establishing clear processes for working together. Resource content includes exploring and implementing an organizational structure for the collaboration, ensuring clarity on structure across participants and maintaining a clear, inclusive decision-making structure. These resources and tools ensure that strong leadership is established early in the collaboration and sufficiently nurtured.

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Types of Partnerships: Continuum of Coordination

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This chart provides an example of a simple continuum- from Cooperative to Integrated- where partnerships may fall depending on the role each partner takes within the collaborative and profiles how decision-making methods for each may be different.

Community Engagement Continuum

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This tool presents a continuum of community engagement from informing (least engaged) to community directed (most engaged) and provides an overview of the goals, messages, tools used, sample timeframes and expense related to each level of engagement.

Considering Logistics and Setting Ground Rules

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This tool frames key logistics for collaborative work and supports collaborative members to consider the importance of setting ground rules to help guide the collective work, including how to work within power dynamics within the group.

Establishing Decision Making Processes

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This tool outlines different levels of decision making and supports brainstorming potential types of decisions that will need to be made (i.e. budget decisions, hiring decisions, etc.) and offers questions to help to determine what type of decision-making process is most appropriate in different contexts within a collaborative.

Building A Memorandum

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This tool provides a template for the kinds of information to include in a memorandum of collaboration for participating organizations or individuals to clarify the purpose, principles of collective work, goals, resources to be shared and roles to played by collaborative members.

The tension of Turf: Making It Work for the Coalition

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The nature of coalition work as well as other alliances between organizations contains inherent challenges, including the issue of turf. This document helps groups frame turf in positive ways that can support the accomplishment of group goals.

Coalition Participation Structures

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This document is designed to help coalition and collaboratives think through different levels of involvement for various stakeholders and offers guiding questions to help groups think through their structure, responsibilities and decision-making approaches and shares two examples of coalition structures.

Framework for Operating Procedures

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

Collaborations need some level of structure and a place to hold the specific expectations of participation and operating procedures are a great place hold all the decisions the collaborative has made about logistics for all meetings, ground rules, roles and responsibilities of various groups, and decision-making procedures et cetera. This tool provides a beginning outline that can help provide a framework for your collaborative’s operating procedures.