Recognizing and strengthening the interrelatedness contributes to the infrastructure of the collaboration. The Framework provides common elements of collaboration. The Framework Grounding All Framework elements are grounded in valuing and respecting diversity. Valuing diversity honors the uniqueness, gifts, and talents each person, group, and organization brings to the collaboration. It opens the door to gaining an understanding of how all the elements fit together and how each is important to the whole.
Diversity brings a critical balance to any level of collaboration.
When a real diversity of people and opinion occurs in a group, a reverence for the shared vision often takes hold. It becomes easier to understand each member s perspective on current reality, and each other s ideas about courses of action. People whose lives are affected by decisions must be equally represented in the decision process. The Framework fosters many opportunities to value the diversity of its individual members, organizations, and agencies. It provides the opportunity to recognize unique skills, capabilities and expectations within each Process and Contextual Factor.