Working Collaboratively
Subtitle: a Practical Guide to Achieving More
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781351275323
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Industries; Environmental aspects; Sustainable development; Entreprises; Responsabilité sociale; Développement durable
Description: "The really big sustainability challenges for your business can't be solved by your business. But they can be solved by your business working in collaboration with others. Working Collaboratively provides tools to help you understand and manage successful collaborations: identify potential collaborators, e.g. key players from other parts of the system; spot internal "ways of working" that support or get in the way of collaboration; use a range of techniques to explore win-wins with potential collaborators. Collaboration means sharing decisions, resources, risks ... and control. It means trusting others, sharing your weaknesses as well as your strengths and taking the time to find win-wins (or compromises). It requires a leap of faith, because you never know what will emerge from the chaotic early steps. Drawing on examples of collaboration between strange bedfellows, this practical guide will help you take the first steps towards building sustainable solutions together."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Start At The End -- 'What'  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 2 Who Might Collaborate With You?  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 3 Co-developing Your Ways of Working -- 'How'  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 4 Finding the Common Ground -- Revisiting the What  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 5 Formalising  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 6 What Kinds of Things Get Done Collaboratively?  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 7 Keeping Things Going  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 8 Case Studies  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 9 Summary of First Steps -- Penny Walker.