Toolkit Category: People

The purpose of this tool is to help you plan the nature of your joint working relationships from the outset, to determine your purpose, processes, and structure according to the joint working model that is right for you.

There are many different models for joint working: partnership, alliance, collaboration and so on. Ensuring that the group achieves its goals requires careful planning and a clear understanding amongst everyone involved of what success looks like.

This model for decision making provides you with some basic guidelines for determining which decision-making style is appropriate for a given situation. It will help you determine if you have a style preference and what that may mean for how you make decisions.

The core quadrants approach goes beyond simply identifying your strengths. It encourages you to think about what too much of a good thing might look like and what that means for your interactions with others.

This tool provides a mechanism for reviewing any inter-organisational working that you may be involved with. It looks at how collaborations develop over time.

The tool gives a breakdown of the communication styles and the methods that are likely to be most effective with each style. It takes you through a series of steps to prepare for communicating your vision.

Inter-organisational or collaborative working has become increasingly important and working within such a group can be both rewarding and challenging. Understanding how well the collaboration is working is a key part of ensuring you achieve more collectively than you could have individually.