"Let's All Play Nice"
Presented by Maris Blechner & Barry Chaffkin

NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children, Inc.
17th Annual Statewide Adoption Training Conference
Adoption 2006: There's No Place like Home
May 12-13, 2006 • Albany New York

Ten Suggestions for Successful Collabortions

1. Buy in at all levels of each organization - take the time to nurture this.
   
   
2. Personal connections - Emails and voice mails are efficient but personal connections must be part of the program.
   
   
3. Feedback and early intervention when there is conflict.
   
   
4. Consider having workers from different agencies physically placed with partner agencies.
   
   
5. Create a way to communicate team progress toward the ultimate goal of the collaboration (meetings, charts displayed, etc.)
   
   
6. Manage Stress
   
   
7. Hold each other accountable without pointing fingers.
   
   
8. Balance consensus with direction.
   
   
9. Anticipate problems and turn them into opportunities.
   
   
10. Have fun! People work best when they are happy.

Please consider the many advantages of building collaborations
both within and across the various systems that affect children
and let's all play nice!

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09/06/2006