URL 1: https://pace.tulane.edu/content/building-and-maintaining-collaborative-culture
Date Developed: 2011. Source: South Central Public Health Partnership. Presenter(s): W. Jack Duncan, PhD; Bryn Manzella, MPH. Type: Narrated Slide Presentation. Level: Intermediate. Length: 120 minutes.
Collaboration is essential to public health professionals in order to carry out their daily job duties successfully and enhance the health outcomes of the population which they serve. This course covers why collaboration is important, how to build a collaborative culture, and barriers to effective collaboration. This course provides two interactive case studies which offer the audience an opportunity to increase their awareness of collaboration and gain some hands-on experience in dealing with real world collaboration challenges.
• Assist in understanding your personal orientation toward collaboration.
• Examine common themes among different definitions of collaboration.
• Illustrate why collaboration is important.
• Identify the steps involved in successful collaboration.
• List the elements of a collaborating culture.
• Provide a series of factors against which your organization can be evaluated relative to the ease of collaboration.
• Identify four familiar impediments to effective collaboration.
• Demonstrate why getting the “right” people on the team is important, even critical, to effective collaboration.
• Provide a series of guidelines for forming a collaborative team.
• Offer some practical advice for building and maintaining collaborative teams.
Registration is required.