Table of Contents

1. Start at the end - "What" 2. Who might collaborate with you? 3. Co-developing your ways of working - "How" 4. Finding the common ground - revisiting the What 5. Formalising 6. What kinds of things get done collaboratively? 7. Keeping things going 8. Case studies 9. Summary of first steps Bibliography Further reading Useful organisations

Promotional Information

Cross-sectoral collaborations are a more and more significant part of today's sustainability agenda. It's a fast-moving area, and Penny Walker's book brilliantly highlights both the motivations that lie behind some of today's breakthrough initiatives, and the principal criteria that make for successful outcomes. -- JONATHON PORRITT, Founder Director, Forum for the Future. Walker's Working Collaboratively is a highly readable, pragmatic guide for anyone contemplating working across boundaries. Practical and visual, it covers the what, why, and how of collaboration. With straightforward suggestions and stories to back them up, put it in your pocket as reference for when you venture into complex and critical change. -- PEGGY HOLMAN, author of 'Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity' and co-author, 'The Change Handbook' If we want a better future we need to learn to truly partner. To share assets, ideas, energy and emotion. Those individuals and organizations who not just recognise this but can do something about it will prosper together in the future. So "jump in" to Working Collaboratively and learn practically how to do partnership. -- MIKE BARRY, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks and Spencer Working Collaboratively is a vade mecum for anyone, whatever their organisational context or background, who cares about planning and implementing sustainable development. It includes aspects and examples of both the theory and practice of stakeholder analysis and strategy, determining collaborative advantage, (facilitated) negotiation to lay firm collaborative foundations, project management, complementary outcomes and developing context-specific approaches. Penny repeatedly stresses the importance of persistence and experimentation, and she provides a helpful list of resources and organisations to enable follow-up. I have placed her book straight onto the "Topical" section of my virtual bookshelf, and I urge you to do the same. -- BOB MACKENZIE, Professor of Management Learning, The IMCA Business School, and Director, the Association for Management Education and Development (AMED)

About the Author

PENNY WALKER is an independent consultant and has been helping people work towards a more sustainable society for over twenty years, collaborating with people to help them learn about change and sustainability.

Reviews

"Today we live in a fractured unsustainable society and economy. Alone, 'locked' in our homes and offices, cut off from different views, skills and solutions. If we want a better future we need to learn to truly partner. To share assets, ideas, energy and emotion. Those individuals and organizations who not just recognise this but can do something about it will prosper together in the future. So 'jump in' to Working Collaboratively and learn practically how to do partnership."--Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks and Spencer

"Walker's Working Collaboratively is a highly readable, pragmatic guide for anyone contemplating working across boundaries. Practical and visual, it covers the what, why, and how of collaboration. With straightforward suggestions and stories to back them up, put it in your pocket as reference for when you venture into complex and critical change."--Peggy Holman, author of Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity and co-author of The Change Handbook