Planning Tool

This tool is designed as a starting point to help you determine the TYPE of collaboration you are trying to build - Coordinate, Coordinate, Cooperate or Create - and your readiness to undertake that TYPE of collaboration. It works particularly well as an initial tool to help leaders clarify scope of their collaboration.

Sample Report - Planning Tool - Single Response

Sample Report - Planning Tool - Single Response

 
Sample Report - Planning Tool - Multiple Responses

Sample Report - Planning Tool - Multiple Responses

PURPOSE

  • To identify the type of partnership you are trying to build,
  • To identify the strength or weakness of each of the action areas necessary to build a partnership.

OUTCOME

  • The leadership team has an agreed direction for the collaboration
  • The leadership team has chosen the level or type of collaboration they want to build
  • The leadership team has identified priority areas for action to begin building the collaboration

HOW TO USE THE TOOL

This tool is most effective when used by leadership teams at the commencement of the partnership, or at any time when you need to reassess your collaboration goals and purpose.

Complete the Planning Tool as an individual user and receive an immediate report which will show you the type of collaboration you are aiming for and the Action Areas which are your strengths and those where you need to change if you are to reach your goals. There is no cost for this report.

Complete the Planning Tool as a group and receive a report which will show you the range of opinions in your group regarding the type of collaboration you are aiming for and your readiness to undertake this. There is a small fee for this group report.

Leaders who are planning a new collaboration, or wanting to inject new life into an established one, will find complete the Planning Tool a powerful device in a leadership forum to build consensus and identify how to build their collaboration.