To do this, I called and asked three colleagues to assist me in developing a list. Here is a list of barriers to best practices in collaboration that we felt were important to note. These roadblocks clearly represent factors we must recognize and reckon with. For example, some barriers deal with intangible items like relationship building, roles, trust, while others are process-centered items such as purpose, mission, and goals. Another category to be considered, also processed-centered, results from bringing different people representing different agencies with different policy and procedures.
Good collaboration takes time to shape and form .
Bringing a diverse group together with intent to coalesce is a complex task. Often collaboration fails when there is no purpose of consideration that the reason to come together is to improve, enhance or change something that is not working. People will disengage if there is not a sense of direction or purpose, thus the collaboration eventually withers away.