Accountability When Working with Partnerships
Listen to this video as a podcast. Explore the four elements of accountability: Effective Controls, Rules and Responsibilities, Time and Budget and Monitor and Evaluation. Learn how to translate these four elements into partnership actions focused on Communication, Teambuilding, Tracking and Troubleshooting and Learning and Sharing. Discussion Questions: What types of communication skills best serve […]
Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory
How is your partnership doing? The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory is a free assessment tool that helps you assess how your collaboration is doing on 22 research-tested success factors. The inventory takes about 15 minutes to complete. Distribute the inventory to a small group of leaders in your collaborative, during a general meeting, or via mail to all members; tally […]
Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes […]
Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (2018)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. One Tam’s vision that we can do more for Mt. Tam together, working across boundaries, than we can alone was affirmed in the findings of a four-year (2014-17) independent study—Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years—on the impact and value of partnerships. One […]
USDA Forest Service Handover Memo
The Forest Service’s handover memo process enables an outgoing agency leader to share information with their replacement. The challenge of rotating Forest Service line officers is a well-known barrier to community and forest‐level collaboration. It takes time to develop good relationships, and when a key agency contact is transferred, a collaborative effort can stall out […]
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
Listen to this video as a podcast. Learn about the use and management of FACA committees and their role in advising federal agencies and/or the President. Consider if your community collaboration outreach meets FACA criteria and if you are violation or a practitioner of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Explore four case study examples […]
Kemmerer Historic Preservation Commission: Creating a Legacy for the Future
Linda Naoi Goetz, BLM Archaeologist Interior Region 7, Upper Colorado Basin Wyoming
A Second Chance in the Desert: Building partnerships and solutions at Mojave River Dam
Connie Chan-Le and Henry Csaposs, USACE Park Rangers Los Angeles District California
Crucial Conversations for Accountability
Accountability is critical to healthy relationships and organizations. As people improve in their ability to hold one another accountable, they also improve trust, efficiency, engagement, and more. The course teaches nine powerful skills for resolving performance problems, strengthening trust and reliability, and eliminating inconsistency. Learn to hold anyone accountable, no matter their power, position, or […]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Online)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People aligns with timeless principles of effectiveness with modern technology and practices. The path to sustained and lasting success is possible when individuals can effectively lead themselves, influence, engage and collaborate with others, and continually improve and renew their capabilities. Learners will complete eight online, self-paced mini-courses over an […]
