Developing Creative Collaborations
Springlake Solutions is partnering with Tracey Myers-Preston consulting to design and implement programs that ensure organizations, networks and cross-agency teams have the optimal design, the right resources, and the buy-in of all partners working together to achieve peak effectiveness.
Together, we bring a creative, flexible, and uncomplicated approach to those facing vital, complex, and high-stakes projects that frequently include:
- Convening key partners in new ways;
- Challenging multi-stakeholder or cross-agency collaborations;
- Defining and developing processes and priority setting;
- Consequential resource allocation; and
- Generating buy-in and momentum across diverse partners.
Why Collaborate?
The complex nature of behavioral health and public safety requires us to go beyond a single approach and, oftentimes, beyond a single organization. When challenges are complex and solutions are too big to scale on your own, or when no solutions are readily available and a challenge requires the discovery and development of new ways of thinking, novel collaborations can provide just the creative answer we need.
As leaders within our organizations and teams, we must become effective collaborators and make collaborations a high-level strategy. This means going beyond simply strengthening relationships with partners. We must genuinely come together in new ways to tackle challenges and explore creative opportunities. The benefits of collaboration are far reaching and include:
- Strengthening your position, reputation and legitimacy;
- Scaling your work by accessing and leveraging human and fiscal assets; and
- Moving initiatives forward when you could not do so alone.
What Can Collaboration Look Like?
Calls for more and better collaboration point us in the right direction, but there is no one-size-fits-all model for how we work together. On one end, we can form powerful alliances that allow us to structure our common efforts at the project level, and at the other end, we can consider full-scale permanent mergers that create economies of scale and harness complementary organizational strengths to make the whole stronger than the sum of its parts.
Next Steps
You can learn about working with Tracey and Mark here and reach out to mobrien@springlakesolutions.com to discuss how we can support your organization and its partners.
