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Why is it important for organizations to work together?

Promoting Networking, Coordination, Cooperative Agreements and Collaborative Arrangements Among Organizations. Why is it important for organizations to work together?.

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Why is it important for organizations to work together?

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  1. Promoting Networking, Coordination, Cooperative Agreements and Collaborative Arrangements Among Organizations

  2. Why is it important for organizations to work together? When you have many groups with different views, resources, and skills applying their intelligence and strength to solve a problem together, the results can be like the work of superheroes.

  3. Overview • Ways organizations can work together. • How to choose among relationships. • Challenges that organizations confront when working together. • Building organizational relationships.

  4. What are ways organizations can work together? • Networking • Coordination • Cooperation • Collaboration • Multisector collaboration

  5. Networking • A networking relationship includes exchanging information to help each organization improve • Networking requires a small amount of time and yields great rewards • A networking relationship can grow after initial trust is developed.

  6. Coordination • A coordinating relationship includes modifying activities to provide better service. • It requires more involvement, time, and trust than networking. • Results can significantly improve peoples lives?

  7. Cooperation • Includes sharing information and resources and making adjustments. • It requires trust and time. • Organizations have to let go of turf issues. • Organizations share ownership, hassles, and rewards.

  8. Collaboration • Organizations help each other enhance their capacities to do their jobs. • People become partners rather than competitors • Collaboration is the most work but the potential for change can also be greatest.

  9. Multisector collaboration • Organizations and citizens form a partnership. • All parties give priority to the good of the community. • It has great rewards, but requires a great investment. • It requires trust, a need, and the will to make a change.

  10. How do you choose among these relationships? • You want to choose an arrangement that will accomplish your goals. • You want to work out an arrangement that is feasible.

  11. In choosing a relationship, consider: • What are your goals? • Which kind of relationship is necessary to accomplish those goals? • Are there resources? • Is there sufficient trust and commitment to support it?

  12. Challenges organizations confront • The belief that individual effort is more beneficial than cooperation. • Mistrust. • A lack of communication skills. • Racism and other forms of discrimination. • A lack of strong leadership. • A sense of powerlessness. • Funders sometimes require organizations to collaborate in order to receive funds.

  13. How to build organizational relationships • Involve stakeholders. • Establish one-to-one relationships and build trust. • Clarify goals. • Decide on a relationship that makes sense. • Establish ground rules. • Learn how to listen. • Build on points of agreement. • Learn about each other's cultural group. • Don't require organizations to give up their identities. • Expect problems and disagreements. • Celebrate success.

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