The Nimble Collaboration: Fine-Tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success

Lets face it the collaboration process can be a pain in the neck. The Nimble Collaboration: Fine-Tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success shows collaborations how to become leaner more responsive more flexible and ultimately more productive. In their bestselling book Collaboration Handbook: Creating Sustaining and Enjoying the Journey Michael Winer and Karen Ray describe how to form a successful collaboration. In The Nimble Collaboration Ray guides existing partnerships into the next stage: becoming more effective. Part I presents the three Rs of nimble collaboration: results that are clearly defined relationships that are deft and a structure that is resilient. Readers will learn how to determine describe and evaluate the specific results everyone wants to achieve—and keep them at the heart of each step they take. The book shows readers how to build trust reinforce roles and avoid turf issues and hidden agendas. Part II walks through real-life applications in two typical collaborations: service integration collaborations and complex problem-solving collaborations. Detailed case studies demonstrate nimbleness in action and give collaborations concrete problem-solving ideas. Throughout the book are samples examples and how-tos based on the authors many years of experience consulting with real people in real collaborations across the United States. A special section explains how to write the various documents that bind partners together on paper including a memo of agreement and a formal governance agreement. Collaborations that involve government agencies nongovernmental organizations community-building groups nonprofits law enforcement education health housing arts social services business foundation—you name it—will find hands-on help for making their collaboration satisfying and productive.