1. Successful Collaborations Alignment, Intentionality, and Results
Hank Rubin, Ph.D., President and Founder
Institute for Collaborative Leadership
Jolie Bain Pillsbury, Ph.D., and Victoria Goddard-Truitt, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellows
University of Maryland School of Public Policy’s Results Based Leadership Collaborative
Successful Collaborations Alignment, Intentionality, and Results
The Communities in Schools National Forum
Philadelphia, PA
April 7, 2010

2. Collaborative Leadership: Complimentary Approaches
Collaborative Leadership: What is Collaborative Leadership? & Who is a Collaborative Leader?
Purposeful, voluntary relationship
Cooperation to achieve shared objectives
Capacity to build and maintain relationships
Collaborative Leadership for Results
Focus on common, shared result
Partners taking aligned action
Use of collaborative leadership skills and tools
Talking Points:
Collaboration: “A collaboration is a purposeful relationship in which all parties strategically choose to cooperate in order to achieve shared or overlapping objectives. Because of its voluntary nature, the success of a collaboration depends on one or more collaborative leader's ability to build and maintain these relationships.”
[Take special note of footnote in handout!] 
Collaborative leader: “You are a collaborative leader once you have accepted responsibility for building - or helping to ensure the success of - a heterogeneous team to accomplish a shared purpose. Your tools are (1) the purposeful exercise of your behavior, communication, and organizational resources in order to affect the perspective, beliefs, and behaviors of another person (generally a collaborative partner) to influence that person's relationship with you and your collaborative enterprise and (2) the structure and climate of an environment that supports the collaborative relationship.”

3. Story of the Little Red Wagon Pin
Educators as Collaborative Leaders: getting grownups to pile into the wagon and pulling everyone along in aligned support of children's learning and well-being.
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4. Workshop Results
How can the Collaboration’s Life Cycle be used to improve community-school partnerships?
Where are you in the Life Cycle?
What are your collaborative leadership opportunities and challenges?
How can you use results-based leadership tools to explore your partnership’s opportunities and address its challenges?
What next steps will you take to strengthen your partnership?

5. Introductions Name Agency or organization
Coalition/collaboration/team that is your focus for workshop
Notes:
Introductions will be at tables if group is large or if group is small stated out in the room.

6. Collaboration’s Life Cycle: Where is Your Team?
Handouts of the Collaboration’s Life Cycle

7. Reflection: Opportunities and Challenges
What are the results you want to achieve from your collaboration?
Who is involved in your collaboration’s work at this phase? What is your role?
What is working and what is not working in your collaborative?
What are the opportunities/challenges you face as a collaborative leader?

8. Collaboration’s Life Cycle Clusters and RBL Tools
Cluster I (Phase 1)
Launch
Reason to undertake initiative
Person responsible for work
Proposal Based Decision Making
Cluster II (Phases 2-5)
Human resources/knowledge base
Accountability Pathway
Cluster III (Phases 6-7)
Administrative structures/systems
High Alignment/ High Action
Cluster IV (Phases 8-11)
Collaborative culture
Connecting partners to/within collaboration
Circle of Conflict
Cluster V (Phases 12-14)
Accountability/sustainability/renewal
Results, Relationships and Resources
Handout of the Comparison between the two approaches
On screen icons from Apps

9. Results-Based Leadership (RBL) Tools
Using results-based leadership tools can help you move quickly from talk to action.
Identify the need to address issue at hand
Assess where your collaboration is now
Identify appropriate results-based leadership tool
Learn how to apply the tool through review, reflection
Practice applying the tool until it becomes second nature

10. RBL Tool: Proposal Based Decision Making
Consensus is finding a proposal everyone can support/no one opposes.
Use proposals to make decisions/seek reactions by using rule of thumb. 
Agree (thumbs up) 
Not sure (thumbs sideways) 
Disagree (thumbs down)

11. RBL Tool: Accountability Pathway
The ability to make action commitments and keep those commitments or to acknowledge you haven’t and do what you need to do to move to action.

12. RBL Tool: High Action/High Alignment
Low Alignment
High Alignment
High Action
High action that contributes to results
Does not work to be in alignment with others
High action that contributes to results
Works to be in alignment with others
Low Action
Low action that does not contribute to results
Does not work to be in alignment with others

13. RBL Tool: Circle of Conflict

14. RBL Tools-Results, Relationships and Resources (3 R’s)
The 3R’s help focus meetings and conversations to produce effective collaboration. Relations + Resources = Results
MEETING PURPOSE- EXPLORE THE TOPIC OF YOUTH SUCCEEDING IN SCHOOL
Effective Questions for Result
“Listen For” for Results
If the meeting were successful, what would we see?
Ideas for low-cost, no cost programs or neighborhood activities that support youth’s academic success and/or positive social connections
Actions taken to implement or connect to programs
Effective Question for Relationship
Example “Listen For” for Relationship
Who needs to be involved to get the meeting results?
Names, affiliations
Who has relationships or access to people and programs
Effective Question for Resources
Example “Listen For” for Resources
What can those invited do to help?
What resources do people have or have access to—i.e., time, knowledge, relationships, experience, passion, data, etc.

15. Resources Institute for Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools
Results Based Leadership Collaborative
Results Based Facilitation: How To Move from Talk To Action
Theory of Aligned Contributions: An Emerging Theory of Change Primer