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Try Collaboration First!
A why and how discussion of collaboration, explaining that it often is possible when we think it is not.
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Consensus Building
Consensus building is used to settle conflicts that involve multiple parties and complicated issues. The approach seeks to transform adversarial confrontations into a cooperative search for information and solutions that meet all parties' interests and needs.
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Collaborative Problem Solving and Consensus Building
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Susan Carpenter and Heidi Burgess Reflect on Susan's 40+ Years' Experience Doing Consensus Building
Susan Carpenter has been working in the field of collaborative problem solving for over 40 years. She talked about the changes she's seen over those years, and the time-tested approaches she has come to rely on for success.
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An Entreaty: An excerpt from The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our Nation by Richard C. Harwood
Rich Harwood's new civic path starts with turning outward toward one another, figuring out what we can agree on amid our differences, and getting in motion together to take action on what matters in our daily lives.
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Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative leadership focuses on shared problem analysis, problem solving, and decision making. It involves actively engaging representatives of all stakeholders in the decision making process, communicating openly, and valuing diverse perspectives.
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Wise and Equitable Collaborative Problem-Solving
Successful democracies need to be able to collaboratively solve shared problems in ways that equitably balance competing interests, while also achieving intended objectives.
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Collaboration Problems
The best decisions usually come out of collaborations where people with different expertise and viewpoints collaborate to evaluate problems and develop solutions that will meet the needs of people of all political stripes. But hyper-polarization makes such collaboration very difficult. Opponents don't trust each other, they don't believe each other, and they seldom are willing to sit down with the other side to listen and learn.
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Collaborative Problem Solving/Consensus Building
Collaborative Problem Solving (also called consensus building) is used to settle conflicts that involve many parties and complicated issues. The approach seeks to transform adversarial confrontations into a cooperative search for information and solutions that meet all parties' interests and needs.
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Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative leadership focuses on shared problem analysis, problem solving, and decision making. It involves actively engaging representatives of all stakeholders in the decision making process, communicating openly, and valuing diverse perspectives.
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Collaborative Problem Solvers
The complexities of modern society make it very difficult to negotiate agreements on ways to solve problems that wisely and equitably balance competing interests. Collaborative problem solvers can help us do this.
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Consensus Builders
Consensus Builders go beyond the negotiation and mediation of relatively small scale disputes to help those involved in complex, multi-party disputes develop a broad consensus on ways of handling complex clusters of interlocking issues that affect large numbers of people and involve multiple interest groups.