Tag: Collaborative Leadership

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 […]

Collaborating Consciously: the Four Cornerstones

Author: Amy E. Mickel, PhD As we continue to face complex and difficult-to-solve problems at the intersection of society, economy, and environment, the need for collaboration is more pressing than ever. Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) are touted as promising mechanisms to tackle these challenges; however, despite their promise, not all partnerships are successful in their collaborative […]

The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies (2014-2017)

By Leigh Goldberg Public land agencies have collaborated for many decades, both informally and formally through inter-agency agreements, to share resources, equipment, staff, and information. Recently, we have seen an emergence of more deliberate partnerships with their own identities and priorities and a commitment to building durable relationships. Interest in partnerships is especially growing where […]

Working at the Speed of Trust

Individuals can learn to “see” trust and its measurable impact, which allows them to build credibility, strengthen relationships, and work collaboratively to deliver essential results. When trust is low, people become suspicious, guard communication, speculate, and disengage. As a result, productivity grinds to a crawl, and the costs—whether social, emotional, or financial—increase. We call these […]

Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

By Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers. Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services […]

Three Elements of Collaborative Leadership

Listen to this video as a podcast. Collaborative leadership can be summarized as putting forward your “Hand, Head, Heart.” Extend your hand as a peer. Use your head to foster cooperation and team work. Connect with your heart to applaud and champion partners including their approaches to recognition. Discussion Questions: Based on your experience, provide […]