Bring in an external trainer or facilitator. Acting together Acting together may involve short-term collaboration or forming more permanent partnerships with other interests. Basics Acting together in partnership involves both deciding together and then acting together. This means having a common language, a shared vision of what you want, and the means to carry it out. Partners need to trust each other as well as agree on what they want to do.
Effective partnerships take a long time to develop - shot gun marriages are unlikely to work.
Each partner needs to feel they have an appropriate stake in the partnership and a fair say in what happens. The various interests involved all get some extra benefit from acting together. There is commitment to the time and effort needed to develop a partnership. Methods for deciding together to create a shared vision. Team building exercises.