By Nick Ellerby, Angela Lockwood, Gill Palin, Susan Ralphs and Bryce Taylor

ISBN: 978-1-871992-20-5

Price: £19.95

Working Relationships for the 21st Century: A Guide to Authentic Collaboration is published by Oasis Press.

It grew out of the UK Leadership Inquiry sessions and the Collabor8 working group.

It shows how collaboration can transform your organisation and ways of working.

The Value of Authentic Collaboration:
Increased levels of commitment - once the full nature of collaboration is understood
Increased quality of the decision-making that arises
Higher degree of accountability that it promotes
Increase of self-esteem and empowerment that it fosters
The potential it creates for innovation and deep change

Chapters:
1 What is Authentic Collaboration?
2 Why Authentic Collaboration?
3 A Process Guide to Authentic Collaboration?
Core Practice for Authentic Collaboration
A Preparation and Checking Readiness
B Enabling Collaboration
C Emergent Challenges
D Reviewing, Monitoring and Evaluating the Achievements
4 In Conclusion
5 Supplementary Information
Annex 1 Characteristics of Competitive and Collaborative Models
Annex 2 Why More Collaboration Now?
Annex 3 Benefits of Collaboration
Annex 4 Conditions that Foster Successful Collaboration
Annex 5 Meeting the Challenges of Collaboration
Annex 6 The Holding Group
Annex 7 Considering Collaboration Frameworks and Levels
Annex 8 Appropriate Skills for Collaboration
Annex 9 The Seven Stage Model of Human Relations
Annex 10 The Inquiry Cycle
Annex 11 The "Self as Instrument" Concept
Annex 12 Innovation and Change
Annex 13 The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and the United Kingdom Leadership Initiative