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Collaboration

Clarifying roles for coalition staff, leaders and members

Although you have a shared passion and interest for the work, staff (and contractors) have much more capacity to spend time in the coalition than leaders or members. In most coalitions, staff are paid and volunteer leaders and members are unpaid. Even if your coalition leaders or members work aligns very closely with the work

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Clarifying roles for coalition staff

When working in coalitions, you are constantly thinking about roles. How can you engage your members in meaningful ways? What roles will people play (or not)? One of the areas we don’t spend nearly enough time considering is the specific roles for staff to play. As coalition staff, it can be really easy to become

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Trust: How do you regain it?

If you are struggling with loss of trust in your coalition, you CAN regain it over time. As much as it would be nice to just do one “big” thing to regain trust, the little things over time make the biggest difference. Since trust usually isn’t lost immediately (although I just had an experience where

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Trust: How do you lose it?

Trust is one of those concepts that you don’t even think about when you have it, but when it’s compromised, you pay a lot of attention to it!  In our coalition work, there can be trust issues within the coalition overall or there can be trust issues between specific members of the coalition that impact

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The Secret to Sustaining Coalitions

You can have a clear purpose, a prioritized strategic plan and clear roles and responsibilities but still struggle with your coalition. While these are important aspects of coalition building, they are not enough to keep coalition members working together. The “secret” to sustaining coalitions is Emotional Intelligence. When we demonstrate high levels of Emotional Intelligence,

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